{"id":23711,"date":"2018-05-29T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=23711"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:31:51","slug":"how-much-power-does-3d-printing-take-well-let-me-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=23711","title":{"rendered":"How much power does 3D printing take? Well, let me tell you."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of posts of people who are looking to understand how much power does a 3D printer consume when operating&#8230;but no real answers, just guesses. So, I hooked up my printer though my KillAWatt and logged the power usage.Printer: Creality CR-10sFilament: Zyltech PLASome base numbers first:Just after turning it on, just sitting there idling: 7wThe drives are only turned on for the motors when you move them, so here&#8217;s each axis&#8217; individual drain:X 6wY 5wZ 8wSo if you turn it on and home the printer, it&#8217;ll be using 26w at idlePart cooling fan: ~1wNozzle heat: 52wBed heat: 201wWarmup, motors off: 270wPrinting with (seemingly) no heaters running: 60wPrinting with (some?) heaters on 243wI printed a one-hand bottle opener, which took 2h 37m to print. My bed temp was 60\u00b0C, nozzle was 200\u00b0C, room temp was 73\u00b0F\/23\u00b0C. In that time, the printer consumed 0.38 kWh. That works out to 0.15 kWh per hour of runtime. My juice costs ~$0.07\/kWh, so it cost me $0.03 in electricity to print it out, and $0.32 of filament to make it from, for a total of $0.35, excluding wear and tear on the machine.Hope this helps answer the question for those who are wondering. https:\/\/ift.tt\/2sjWOnd<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of posts of people who are looking to understand how much power does a 3D printer consume when operating&#8230;but no real answers, just guesses. So, I hooked up my printer though my KillAWatt and logged the power usage.Printer: Creality CR-10sFilament: Zyltech PLASome base numbers first:Just after turning it on, just sitting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=23711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How much power does 3D printing take? Well, let me tell you.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-23711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23712,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711\/revisions\/23712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}