# Is there filament that conducts electricity or resists static?

Proto-pasta's conductive PLA page, read 27 October 2026, says a typical 10 cm length of 1.75 mm filament measures 2.0–3.5 kilo-ohms, and a 10 cm length of 2.85 mm filament measures 0.7–1.3 kilo-ohms. The page says to use it as a resistor. A printed trace is not a substitute for wire, and the same page says the resistance of a print depends on its shape and settings.

Proto-pasta's conductive PLA page, read 27 October 2026, says a typical 10 cm length of 1.75 mm filament measures 2.0–3.5 kilo-ohms, and a 10 cm length of 2.85 mm filament measures 0.7–1.3 kilo-ohms. The page says to use it as a resistor. A printed trace is not a substitute for wire, and the same page says the resistance of a print depends on its shape and settings.

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](/answers/electronics) and [carbon fiber](/answers/cf) are the neighboring pages.
## The resistance Proto-pasta publishes

The [Proto-pasta conductive PLA page](https://www.protopasta.com/products/conductive-pla), 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](/brand/protopasta/conductive-pla), 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](/brand/add-north/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](/brand/3dxtech/abs-3dxstat-esd) 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](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1e7g93f/) 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](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1e7g93f/) says you should not be inhaling any filament.

[a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/t38l04/) says an outside article might help, that some of the filament is expensive, and that it drops the voltage a little.

Updated 2026-10-27. Sources accessed 2026-10-27. Use case: Heat resistance.

## Ranked filaments

| Rank | Filament | Nozzle | Bed | Price per kg |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Protopasta Conductive PLA | 195–225 °C (383–437 °F) | 50–70 °C (122–158 °F) | — |
| 2 | Add-North ESD PETG | 260 °C (500 °F) | 80 °C (176 °F) | — |
| 3 | 3DXTech ABS 3DXStat ESD | 230–260 °C (446–500 °F) | 90–110 °C (194–230 °F) | — |

## Sources

- [Proto-pasta Electrically Conductive Composite PLA](https://www.protopasta.com/products/conductive-pla) (manufacturer)
- [Addnorth ESD PETG technical data sheet](https://storage.googleapis.com/addnorth-com.appspot.com/imgix/assets/production/TDS_ESD_PETG_3mpUZx.pdf) (datasheet)
- [Open Filament Database record for 3DXSTAT ESD-ABS](https://api.openfilamentdatabase.org/api/v1/brands/3dxtech/materials/ABS/filaments/3dxstat_esd/index.json) (other)
- [a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1e7g93f/) (reddit)
- [a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/t38l04/) (reddit)
- [a Reddit thread in r/BambuLab](https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/14w0spd/) (reddit)
- [a Reddit thread in r/prusa3d](https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1n7c8w6/) (reddit)
- [a Reddit thread in r/3Dprinting](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/112w1n7/) (reddit)

HTML: https://filamentfacts.com/answers/conductive