Hello, I want to know a Ormerod 3d printer's power consumption

Hello, I want to know a Ormerod 3d printer's power consumption.
No mods like increasing the power to the bed or anything is used.

power outlet is 230 v


I got the 2nd "version" of the ormerod.


((sorry for the short post, i have no time to type more, i will edit this with more information later))


best regards // Victhor

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Are you looking for an average or a maximum? There is a lot of difference between when the heaters are on and off. The bed heater is about 120W when on and the extruder heater about 50W when fully on. That's 170W for the heaters, which will be nearer 200W at the input to the power supply.

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I measured the power consumption just the other day,
this is what I recorded:

15W on stand-by
23W while hom'ing
156W on start-up (bed warming but no hot nozzle yet)
200W on start-up with bed heating and nozzel heating

50W - 200W printing out depending on the printers co-ordination of motors, bed moving and bed and nozzel heating going on / off

(I used a digital plug-in Power & Energy monitor, Maplin L61AQ)

Get one of those power meters that you plug in the wall socket and measure it. Will give you both current power draw as well as average over time, for your particular use case.

Thanks for the answers everyone!

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jstck
Get one of those power meters that you plug in the wall socket and measure it. Will give you both current power draw as well as average over time, for your particular use case.

I'll look for that next time i visit an electric store

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jphoo123
I measured the power consumption just the other day,
this is what I recorded:

15W on stand-by
23W while hom'ing
156W on start-up (bed warming but no hot nozzle yet)
200W on start-up with bed heating and nozzel heating

50W - 200W printing out depending on the printers co-ordination of motors, bed moving and bed and nozzel heating going on / off

(I used a digital plug-in Power & Energy monitor, Maplin L61AQ)

Nice knowing those values, Thanks! will look for a simular monitor

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dc42
Are you looking for an average or a maximum? There is a lot of difference between when the heaters are on and off. The bed heater is about 120W when on and the extruder heater about 50W when fully on. That's 170W for the heaters, which will be nearer 200W at the input to the power supply.

Thanks! yea, I was looking for about average

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Bear in mind that the average consumption will differ greatly depending on whether you are printing PLA or ABS because it takes over twice as much power to keep the hotter bed temperature needed for ABS. There will also be a significant variation depending on the ambient temperature for the same reason. Having the printer in an enclosed cabinet will reduce its average power consumption (by quite a bit I should think).

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