including power costs in print cost estimate?

[aviphysics 9]

Sometime I wonder what the electrical cost is for a print. Just one of those things that I really have no idea about. I am guessing it isn't a lot, but it might be a significant portion of the cost of highly quality prints of small objects.

Seems like it would be cool if Cura could make an estimate on the power consumed to make a print (at least for the UM models). Like filament, it could let you enter a cost per a kWh, (or whatever Europe uses on energy bills. calories?)

 

[xeno 108]

Maybe somebody already calculated what the cost per hour is, or measure yourself,

you just need to add it to the cost of the filament, and you get a total price

 

[dirkdirk 5]

If you are calculating with 0,2kW/h it is fine. So 0,05€/printhour is well calculated.

[pm_dude 27]

It will depend on where you live of course. But like dirkdirk mentionned its 200-230Wh. Funny the info is not on the UM2 product page anymore.

So $/kwh * 0.2 * number of hours.

Here its 5.5cents per kwh * 0.2 * 24 hours = 0.26$/day

 

[aviphysics 9]

I think here it is about 20 cents/kwh