Hi
I was just wondering what energy usage people were experiencing when printing using their A1 minis? I know this is a how long is a piece of string question. But we had quite a high electricity bill last month and i was wondering if it had anything to do with me printing?
What would an average £/KW per hour do you think (roughly of course)
thanks for any help
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Hi, these are measures extracted from a review:
Then, at idle state (no printing) is almost nothing (5W)
When heating nozzle and bed is the max draw (120W)
And when printing is about 50W
Then, the printer consumes 1KW after 18-20 hours printing, in Spain this is 0,20€
Then, if you have one complete month printing day and night, 24 hours a day, it will add to your invoice about 38Kw (7,5€ at Spain prices)
I measured the usage during a 25 hour print on my A1 with the plate at 65c in a fairly cold room.
It came in at around 2.5kw so with my current tariff of 28p/kw then that’s 70p a day or 100w / 2.8p an hour.
I’d imagine the mini would be a bit less with the smaller bed to heat.
thanks for the info! I think im just getting paranoid - the high bill, and a seemingly often inaccurate ‘smart meter’ I think has been confusing me
