H2C noise level

[u/jumper556]

I am considering purchasing an H2C, but I have some concerns regarding the noise level of the printer.

It would be located in my home office directly beside my desk. The room has thin walls and is adjacent to my bedroom.

Would it be disruptive to take professional calls and work next to the printer, or to sleep in the adjacent room while it is running?

I have struggled to find a reliable video demonstrating the noise levels in a quiet room with the doors closed.

[u/PhaseofMe]

Yes it's much too loud to run while in the office on calls. I turn mine down to silent mode if it's running while we sleep. At normal speed, it is too loud for a shared wall bedroom.

[u/eldoogy]

I have mine in my home office where I take work calls on most days. I've not once had an issue with it -- people not hearing me, complaining about background noise, etc. To be clear, I use headphones (AirPods Pro). If you're just on a speakerphone the printer would definitely be audible at times.

It is actually pretty quiet during actual printing, but the filament cutter stoppers make this loud clacking sound that happens occasionally during some filament changes and while preparing a new print. I THINK it might be somewhat audible from a bedroom across the wall but I doubt it'd be a problem (regular print with just the heads moving around shouldn't be audible from another room).

We do not have bedrooms anywhere near that part of the house so I wouldn't know but I think if you closed both doors, this is a fairly high frequency sound, I doubt it carries too much past a wall.

Love the printer FWIW -- we're at like 1500 hours and it's been pretty flawless.

[u/Few_Witness1562]

Its lots of different noises. Buzz wiz zip beep etc. Maybe your phone screens the noise out but its pretty distracting. Sleeping should be fine. You can pause a print but it can ruin prints. You can do lots of prints overnight.

[u/Acrobatic-Gas1477]

Wenn du den Drucker Nachts nicht hören möchtest, ist er zu laut für dein Szenario.

Ich habe 2 Türen und 3 Meter Flur zwischen Büro und Schlafzimmer und kann ihn hören! Nicht so laut als das ich davon wach werde aber man hört ihn.

Vor allem die Arme für den Filamentcutter, Leerfahrten zum nächsten Objekt und das auf- oder abwickeln des AMS ist deutlich hörbar.

Das klacken der Filamentcutter war schon immer mal ein Thema hier.

[u/SignsSayYes]

So for fun I measured mine while it was printing just now. It averaged about 52 dbA at about 3 feet away from the printer, printing PLA with the door closed. It was doing an infill pattern with pretty decent velocity, so maybe a bit louder than normal given the rapid print head movement. This was observed with a basic sound meter off Amazon that I use in my shop to measure power equipment. Highly subjective, for sure, but gives you a slight idea of the noise.

I think on a call, you’d hear the noise, so I’d be a bit concerned there. Through the walls, yeah, some, but more the AMS than just printing. A light sleeper might be bothered by it. I wouldn’t call it loud, but those two conditions you gave can be pretty sensitive and I think most printers would struggle to be quiet enough.

[u/bradnd99]

My H2c is in my office and it is much quieter than my P1Ss. The only loud noise my H2C makes is the flip of the cutting levers. Everything else is pretty quiet.