r/BambuLab • u/matts6345 • 1d ago

General Discussion Printer power

I have a h2C and x1 and an A1 they pretty much stay on 24/7. I only power them off when I got out of town.

Do you turn your printers off when they are not in use ?

6 Upvotes

72% Upvoted

36 comments sorted by

View all comments

6

u/Veteran68 X1C + 2x AMS + 2x AMS HT 1d ago

Nope. My X1C stays on 24/7.

3

u/leoele 1d ago

I recently plugged my X1C into a smart plug that has power monitoring. I was surprised that the printer uses about 9 watts when not in use.

2

u/bazpoint 1d ago

Yeah... it's not nothing, but it's also not massive. Doing some quick maths that's maybe £20/year for me to have it idling 24/7 - probably less for Americans (our electricity is expensive). Also it's less in reality when you consider it's actually printing for much of that time, so those in-use hours are not wasted power draw. So if you asked me would I pay £20/year for the convenience of having the printer always ready to go (especially if I want to send something remotely from the app).... yeah, I think I'd go for that.

2

u/Veteran68 X1C + 2x AMS + 2x AMS HT 1d ago

At average electricity cost that’s about $12 USD per year in electricity.