Is a 50 °C (122 °F) filament dryer enough for PETG or nylon?

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1. The dryer can handle a filament only when the maker's drying maximum is at or below the dryer setting.
2. Filaments with no drying temperature are left out. They are not counted as handled.
3. This catalog has no dryer to rank. The dryer tool checks a maximum against the same filaments.

Each figure comes from the maker's own drying instructions. This is not a dryer recommendation.

No. A 50 °C (122 °F) dryer is below every PETG row and every nylon row in the filament drying dataset, checked 24 October 2026. Pick another maximum on Will my dryer cover this filament?. PETG in that set is 55–70 °C (131–158 °F). Plain nylon (PA) is 70–110 °C (158–230 °F). PLA drying cycles are on does PLA need drying. PETG cycles are on how long to dry PETG. Hardware that can hold a hotter filament is which dryer. The material overview is drying.

Rows from the drying dataset

The dataset copies temperatures only from the maker's drying instructions, product pages, and wikis. These are the spans, with the rows that set the ends.

• PLA, 60 rows, 45–75 °C (113–167 °F). Bambu PLA Basic lists 50 °C (122 °F) for 8 hours in a blast drying oven. Prusament PLA lists 45 °C (113 °F) for 6 hours on Prusa's drying article. PolyLite PLA lists 55 °C (131 °F) for 6 hours, and 33 of the 60 PLA rows list 55 °C (131 °F). Eryone Standard PLA lists 65–75 °C (149–167 °F) for 12 hours. The Flashforge drying table lists PLA-CF at 60 °C (140 °F) for 6 hours.
• PETG, 30 rows, 55–70 °C (131–158 °F). Twelve of those rows list 65 °C (149 °F). Polymaker PETG TDS V2.0 lists 55 °C (131 °F) for 6 hours. PolyLite PETG lists 65 °C (149 °F) for 6 hours. Bambu PETG HF lists 65 °C (149 °F) for 8 hours. The same Flashforge table lists PETG at 70 °C (158 °F) for 6 hours and PETG-CF at 70 °C (158 °F) for 8 hours. Both of those 70 °C (158 °F) rows are filed as PETG.
• Nylon (PA), 8 rows, 70–110 °C (158–230 °F). eSUN ePA lists 70 °C (158 °F) for more than 12 hours. The Flashforge table lists PAHT at 70 °C (158 °F) for 8 hours. Overture Easy Nylon lists 95 °C (203 °F) for 7 hours. PolyMide CoPA lists 100 °C (212 °F) for 8 hours. The SUNLU wiki lists Easy PA at 80–110 °C (176–230 °F) for 4–12 hours.
• PA-CF, 11 rows, is also 70–110 °C (158–230 °F). eSUN ePA-CF lists 70 °C (158 °F) for more than 12 hours. The SUNLU wiki lists PA6-CF up to 110 °C (230 °F).

PLA+ is a separate family. Ten of 12 PLA+ rows list a temperature, and those ten run from 45 °C (113 °F) to 60 °C (140 °F). Polymaker HT-PLA is the 60 °C (140 °F) row, for 6 hours.

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