The current “Heated Sync Heating Configuration” in Bambu Farm Manager is helpful, but it isn’t sufficient for farms with printers distributed across multiple electrical circuits.
Right now, setting “Allow 2 printers to heat up simultaneously” applies globally. For example, if I have:
Circuit 1: 4 printers
Circuit 2: 4 printers
I should be able to heat 2 printers on each circuit simultaneously (4 total), but the current implementation only allows 2 across the entire farm, unnecessarily reducing throughput. Increasing the limit risks overloading a single circuit if all printers happen to be on it.
I’d like to request one of these enhancements:
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Add a native “Circuit” field to each printer, then enforce the simultaneous heating limit independently for each circuit.
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Leverage the existing tag system. Allow the heating synchronization setting to be applied per tag.
For example:
Circuit1
Circuit2
Circuit3
Then configure the limit as “Allow 2 printers per tag/circuit to heat simultaneously.”
This would make the feature much more useful for larger farms while helping prevent electrical overloads, all without requiring major changes if the existing tag infrastructure can be reused.
For larger farms, this could save a significant amount of production time. Since a P1S typically spends around 1 to 2 minutes in its highest-power heating phase, a global limit forces every printer to wait in a single queue. In a 30-printer farm, allowing concurrent heating per circuit instead of globally could reduce startup delays by 30 to 60 minutes for a large batch, while still protecting each electrical circuit from overload.
Since there is no “bambu-farm-manager” tag available in the Feature Requests sub-category, I am cross posting this in “Feature Requests” and the “Bambu Farm Manager” category.