Heat resistance
Is there filament that conducts electricity or resists static?
By SSS
Published . Updated .
- Nozzle195–225 °C(383–437 °F)
- Bed50–70 °C(122–158 °F)
- Speed—
- Dry—
- Density1.24 g/cm³
Source: Protopasta product page · Last checked 19 October 2026
Ranked filaments
| Rank | Filament | Material | Nozzle | Bed | Datasheet | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Protopasta · Conductive PLA | PLA | 195–225 °C383–437 °F | 50–70 °C122–158 °F | — | |
Product page read 27 October 2026 gives the kilo-ohm figures for a 10 cm length. The catalog, Open Filament Database verified 13 October 2026, stores a nozzle of 195–225 °C (383–437 °F) and a bed of 50–70 °C (122–158 °F). The product page also says it prints with standard PLA settings or hotter, and that no heated bed or special nozzle is required. Those two bed sentences disagree. Both stay. | ||||||
| 2 | Add-North · ESD PETG | PETG | 260 °C500 °F | 80 °C176 °F | Datasheet | |
Catalog nozzle 260 °C (500 °F) and bed 80 °C (176 °F), stored as single values from SpoolmanDB, verified 13 October 2026. Drying maximum is 65 °C (149 °F) and the hours cell is empty. The product name says ESD. The catalog stores no resistance or resistivity figure for this row, so none is stated. | ||||||
| 3 | 3DXTech · ABS 3DXStat ESD | ABS | 230–260 °C446–500 °F | 90–110 °C194–230 °F | — | |
Catalog nozzle 230–260 °C (446–500 °F) and bed 90–110 °C (194–230 °F), Open Filament Database, verified 13 October 2026. The product name says ESD. The catalog stores no resistance or resistivity figure for this row, so none is stated. | ||||||
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Yes. Conductive PLA and ESD-named filaments are sold. The only resistance figure checked for this page is Proto-pasta's, and it is the resistance of a short piece of filament, not a license to replace wire. Electronics enclosures and carbon fiber are the neighboring pages.
The resistance Proto-pasta publishes
The Proto-pasta conductive PLA page, read 27 October 2026, says: use it as a resistor. Typical resistance for 10 cm of 1.75 mm filament is 2.0–3.5 kilo-ohms. Typical resistance for 10 cm of 2.85 mm filament is 0.7–1.3 kilo-ohms. A kilo-ohm is a thousand ohms. The page also says measured resistance will vary, and that the resistance of a 3D print depends on geometry and settings.
The same page says it prints with standard PLA settings or hotter, and that no heated bed or special nozzle is required. The catalog row, Open Filament Database verified 13 October 2026, stores a nozzle of 195–225 °C (383–437 °F) and a bed of 50–70 °C (122–158 °F). The bed sentence on the page and the bed cell in the catalog disagree. Both are reported.
That page also says the filament is usable on most PLA-compatible printers and names Makerbot, FlashForge, Dremel, Ultimaker, and Printrbot as examples. That list is Proto-pasta's sentence. It is not a test of any printer that is absent from it.
ESD in the name, no ohms in the catalog
Addnorth ESD PETG stores a nozzle of 260 °C (500 °F) and a bed of 80 °C (176 °F) as single values from SpoolmanDB, verified 13 October 2026, and a drying maximum of 65 °C (149 °F) with the hours blank. 3DXSTAT ESD-ABS stores a nozzle of 230–260 °C (446–500 °F) and a bed of 90–110 °C (194–230 °F) from the Open Filament Database, verified the same day. Neither row stores a resistance or a resistivity. The word ESD on the product is not turned into an ohms figure here.
Fiberon PETG-ESD has a heat-deflection temperature in the heat dataset, checked 21 October 2026: 76 °C (169 °F) at 0.45 MPa and 72 °C (162 °F) at 1.8 MPa, ISO 75, from that product's technical data sheet. The heat row does not store a resistance either. Nozzle and bed for that catalog row are blank, so they are left blank.
What the community says
a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting says the conductive filament is not a great conductor, and that the project has to be able to tolerate that.
a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting says you should not be inhaling any filament.
a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting says an outside article might help, that some of the filament is expensive, and that it drops the voltage a little.
Pros and cons
Pros
- The only resistance figures on this page are the ones Proto-pasta prints for a 10 cm length of filament.
- The ESD-named rows stay in the catalog list with their print temperatures, and with the resistance cell left empty.
Cons
- Addnorth ESD PETG and 3DXSTAT ESD-ABS do not have a published ohms figure in this catalog. Naming them is not a conductivity ranking.
- The product page says no heated bed is required. The catalog bed is 50–70 °C (122–158 °F). Use the page you are printing from, and do not average them.
Printer considerations
- Kilo-ohms over a short length of filament means the plastic fights the current. Copper wire is measured in fractions of an ohm. Do not replace a wire, a heater lead, or a power trace with this filament.
- Proto-pasta says measured resistance varies, and that a print's resistance depends on geometry and settings. A spool figure is not the resistance of the part.
- ESD in a product name means the maker is selling it for static-sensitive use. It is not, by itself, a resistivity number. [Electronics enclosures](/answers/electronics) is the case around a board. [Carbon fiber](/answers/cf) is a different filler, and those rows are not given ohms here either.
Sources & notes
Published . Updated .
- Proto-pasta Electrically Conductive Composite PLA manufacturer
- Addnorth ESD PETG technical data sheet datasheet
- Open Filament Database record for 3DXSTAT ESD-ABS other
- a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting reddit
- a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting reddit
- a Reddit thread in r/BambuLab reddit
- a Reddit thread in r/prusa3d reddit
- a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting reddit
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Questions
Can I print a wire?
No. Proto-pasta's own page says to use the filament as a resistor, and it gives thousands of ohms for 10 cm of filament. A wire of that length would be a fraction of an ohm. Electronics enclosures is a different job. Carbon fiber does not turn a spool into a wire either.
Why do the ESD rows have no ohms?
The catalog cells checked for Addnorth ESD PETG and 3DXSTAT ESD-ABS store nozzle and bed temperatures only. An ESD name is not a resistivity measurement. If the maker's data sheet on the spool you buy prints a surface resistance, use that sheet. It is not copied here.