PSA: New Bambu Studio Might Increase Initial Wattage Before Print

If you’re in 110V area, you now might have even more issues with high temp materials: now the chamber heater and the bed are going to heat up at the same time.

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/software/bambu-studio/release/release-note-2-1-1

You might need to test it yourself. Consider feedback to Bambu if there’s anything burning :slight_smile:

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Why would one have issues?
What are you talking about?
Sounds like putting out a useless PSA!
I run on a 110V circuit and have zero problems.

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You’re lucky that you’re not on 110V 15A outlets.
Some of the US folks here are not that lucky

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Buy a stepdown transformer and hookup to a 240v outlet if you don’t have the current on that circuit (or any 120v circuit).

Also, this is easy enough to change in in the slicer and revert back if it is a cause for concern for someone.

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its a home appliance (or at least that’s what bambu pretended it to be). I don’t think modifying gcode is what we should be doing for home appliances.

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The change is said to be when doing calibration but for normal printing wasn’t it already the case that bed and chamber were ON simultaneously before the update?

If it’s not the case already, the aux Fan should also be full on.

I confess that i never checked any of this before (I’m on 230V so don’t mind the amps, or the time…).

Me on 230(240) as well, but there was a discussion here

I’m nearly positive this is exactly how it is. It’s been about a week or 2 since I’ve done a high temp print, but if my memory serves me right the chamber heater kicks on immediately along with the bed heater.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that when the chamber heater and heat bed both turn on at the start of a print, the power draw is actually less than when it’s just the heat bed alone. About 50-100w less.

I’m on 120v.

H2D is on a dedicated 15A outlet.

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From previous discussions, the intial peak of H2D could reach 1600watts before the change of Bambu Studio. I don’t know what it’s hitting right now but I guess it’s gonna be brutal.

That’s not how peak works… if you look at the back of the label. Whatever the machine is rated at peak. It will only goes up to that wattage.

Before it was only pulling 1300-1400 watts. Just printed something yesterday, it was still pulling the same wattage.

You guys just don’t have the understanding of the amp, watt power rating on electronic product. Software update doesn’t auto means this is going to change to 2000-2500w. Doesn’t work like that.

The rating label is the absolute max peak the machine is capable to pull. During the printing, it will never pull over 300-400 watts.

Oh really, have a look here:

It’s a measured value, not an assumption.

And yes, one would reasonably assume that the Max Power Consumption they labeled would be the Actual max power. But no that’s not the case for H2D. It breaches its rated max power for a couple minutes.

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High temperature print. The machine still pulls the same 15XX watts it does with low temp prints. I verified that the chamber heater and bed heated together. It was also heating the nozzle at the same time too.

There is no further increase in power draw compared to what is considered normal.

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