PSA: New Bambu Studio Might Increase Initial Wattage Before Print

[hotellonely]

@kip

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

Oh really, have a look here:

Feature Request: Option to reduce Power Required on H2D bed heat up

When a print starts the H2D uses it’s high-power heating element to quickly head the bed. This has been shown to draw over 1600Watts on a 120V. Many of us like to have our printers connected to a UPS system and this is over the available wattage for commonly used UPSs. I don’t need the bed to heat up in 10 seconds. I would like an option to slow this heating process and reduce the maximum power required at startup. Either by simply reducing the power to the high-power heating element, or by…

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.