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Wire not tighted enough? ?

I can help u. I use simplify with the Atom and another delta printer, with the OEM extruder an with an E3Dv6 extruder and I have settings for PLA and ASA.

Awesome! Can you send me screenshots of your settings or send me the setting files for the atom 2.0?

Yinka Alade yeah! Of course! I am at work, i Will send you the files in a few hours

Hugo Lopez Uria nice! Look forward to testing out those settings!

I've got S3D settings for single & dual extruder Atom2. But I haven't used S3D in years so I'm not sure how up to date they are. I did use the dual extruder setting to print the 2 color Thingiverse Traffic Cone once, so I know that one worked way back then.

I only use S3D for the Machine Control app, and that is very infrequent. Consequently I don't see myself paying for the upcoming S3D Ver.5 upgrade.

Hello, I need S3D settings for my ATOM 2.5EX.. Anyone?

That would be for S3D 4.1.1, thanks..

Well this poorly designed software doesn't allow attaching files, so send me your email if you want copies of my S3D settings for single & dual extruders.

Here are links to my 2 S3D 4.4.4 FFF files for Atom2:

https://drive.google.com/open......

https://drive.google.com/open......

Is the ceramic heater plate working fine? I would try with another New

something short circuit. should be around the nozzle.

that's what I thought until I put in my other hotend which is brand new and the exact same thing is happening.

ok, u need use the multimeter to check the wires.

Never done that before. What should I exactly be checking for?

just check the which one wire short circuit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ5B715tO4M

So Birk Binnard told me I should check the PSU unit. I unplug the Atom 2.0 and go to find one of my PSUs laying around. All the ones I found don't match exactly to Atom's. So I said forget and plugged it all back in. Turned it back up, set it to 200 de grees and now it works fine without turning off and the other hotend that wouldn't reach temp reached temp fine and the machine didn't turn off.

So the power plug was loose are something I guess. Welp, problem solved, back to printing.

Maybe the print bed needs re-calibrating for 0.1 to work. You can run auto-leveling twice or more to ensure precision first, then fine tune the Z height.

Tried that a bunch of times already and it still prints like its clogged or something when it's not.

Maybe u over tighten the bracket one and the bed is a bit flexing

Brackets are good. I doubt the bed is flexing because where it determines to be weird is inconsistent. It's mainly an issue with prints with large first layers.

So far I've done a .15 print that came out decent. It had a few errors on the first layer. Every layer after the first is fine.

That's good to know. And if that happen to me again, I will do .15 too.

You have to do manually The Least Square Correction for bigger prints

Do what manually? Also what does "The Least Square Correction" mean?

Print it by auto level~

what firmware version? and what's the white thing for?
try check this.

Bigger prints issues are the weakness of the official information.

Maybe you can check the tension of Z-tower belt, or the installation of the guide wheel on the stepper motor.

Actually without that wire the fan doesn't turn on... Whoops

Ill just solder it back

I have the same issue as you have and I also solder it back by myself.

Is your ATOM 1.0 or 2.0？

2.0

Maybe original lcd didn't broken? Might be you use the wrong fw,
the fw version end with b is for ATOM 1.x.

I had that plugged in since march and it worked fine. It just recently broken. So that white tab is ONLY for Atom 1.0? You sure, cause I say the online instructions and it shows the guy putting that in I believe.

also what do you mean by fw?

Did you upgrade Firmware(fw) via arduino IDE recently ?

oh firmware... I upgraded to 2.7, then back down to 2.4

And it worked fine for like 2 days

the new screen works and the old screen doesn't. Same firmware and all.

But did you use the firmware version end with b?
Since ATOM 2.0 firmware can't support this LCD without "ATOM use" pin without modification.
It's highly possible you are using the wrong version firmware 2.04b (it's for ATOM1.x)
But, it might be ok now, just dont' restore fail safe.
Otherwise, remember to set steps/mm to 160 for X,Y,Z axis. & 200 for E axis & save.

Just a reminder, if you don't understand what I am talking about.
It's ok, once when you got problem in the future, it might help.

Right now I am not using any firmware as I installed a new board.

So this is how it went. The screen was messed up. I got told by another user I somehow fried the board with my hotend themostat. So I bought a new board AND a new screen. The new board came first. I installed it and the screen was still messed up. I got the new screen today, put the new screen in and it works fine. So I'm thinking it's the screen.

You're asking if it's the firmware which it's not, because when I installed the firmware it worked. It worked for days on 2.7 and when I went back to 2.4. So if it was the firmware, it shouldn't have worked the moment I installed it right?

But seriously, what does the white plug do?

so this new screen can't be used in atmo 2.0 without the ATOM USE plug?

Sign, you didn't explained what controller board you are using clearly.....
The "ATOM use" plug is designed for ATOM2.0. (you always understand as reversed.) So, it's for the ATOM 2.0(not firmware version, I am talking about model) firmware only work s with it connected.

The firmware version number end with b (like 2.0.4b) it's for ATOM1.0~1.x model.

So, what is your new controller board? It's ramps1.4 or MKS Gen?
What is your step stick now? A4988 or DRV8825?

Whatever, if yours works fine. It's fine.

He is official support, you can ask him more ;p

the controller board I'm using is this

https://www.amazon.com/....../ref=oh_aui_detailpage......

The Atom guys said that would work.

So the plug is for Atom 2.0. So that plug literally makes the firmware for Atom 2.0 work? I wasn't using any firmware with a b at the end. If I were, wouldn't the screen have stopped working as soon as I installed the firmware and not after? To be clear, the screen stopped working when I was using the controller board I got from Atom 2.0

Sign, so tired to explain that. Check LCD2004 4bits, 8bits parallel control by yourself.

Answer this question, if the wrong firmware was installed on the original atom 2.0 controller board, why did the screen work for days just fine and then stop?

If you use firmware like 2.0.4b on original LCD , it still possible to display correctly.(just sometimes might mess up) Since 4 bit's LCD connection still there. It's backward compatible. The much serious problem is what's your stepstick using now? A4988 or DRV8825. The steps/mm difference.

I'm going to put back in the old board and install the latest firmware for Atom 2.0 which I think is 2.0.7 and see if it works.

this is what the screen was looking like before

Since your new controller board is the same, actually you can plug the "ATOM use" pins on new controller board. Just find out the same place same pins.

I did, but there's no where to plug that into the new screen. Also I'm rechecking my downloads and I only installed the 2.0.4 and 2.0.7. None of these were version B.

reinstalled the firmware and the screen still doesn't work. Going to try firmware B with the new screen since it doesn't have a "ATOM USE" on it

as expected, 2.0.4 doesn't work on the old screen or new screen. 2.0.5b works on the new screen. So I'm coming to the conclusion my old screen from Atom is just broken. Is there anywhere to buy that screen from other than Atom?

Yinka Alade No, it's customized for ATOM. Never seem it in other place.
BTW, Check your stepstick. If you are using 2.0.5b on "new controller board" but stepstick is DRV8825. need to change the steps/mm as previous mentioned.

I honestly have no idea what a stepstick is. How do I check that?

Who is official support? Hawke ChienSheng ?

http://reprap.org/....../A4988_vs_DRV8825_Chinese......

黃俊傑

I get it now. I took the A4988 chips off of the Atom board and put them onto the new board

So when i comes to firmware 2.0.X and 2.0.Xb... does this change print quality at all?

hmmm from original ATOM board, it's "DRV8825"

Check your steps/mm in LCD menu X,Y,Z E should set to
160,160,160,200

oh, if that's the case, then the chips I took off are "DRV8825". Which ever, I took them off of the ATOM main board. I'll check the LCD panel right now.

right now they're set to half

80, 80, 80, 100

So I can set to double manually and that will be good?

yes, you should double it & store memory

ok. got it all changed and now I'm about to put this stuff back together and do a test print.

I really appreciate all that help, Clarence !

Sometimes the light that turns on the board when the hotend heats up starts flashing. Is that normal?

Yinka Alade if it's the MOS for hotend heater , it's normal

Sorry, one more question, lol.

I have 2 hotends. One brand new from Atom and one i changed the blue and yellow wires for. The brand new one heats up quickly and perfect. The one i changed wires for heats up slower but reaches 200. However it cant reach 240 and stops at 230. You have any idea what the issue could be?

assembly issue , wire issue , thermistor or heater quality/condition.(check via multimeter, compare the resistor value on heater)

got my test prints done and everything looks good. Thanks again Clarence

Birk Binnard the answer is in here. It delt with chaning the steps

"Check your steps/mm in LCD menu X,Y,Z E should set to
160,160,160,200"

Yinka Alade Is that in the configuration.h file? Or somewhere else?

Birk Binnard in the menu in the LCD.

I thought the lcd menu text was somewhere in configuration.h

Birk Binnard could be. I’ve never messed with that file.

Ok. I'll see what I can find.

OK - I found it: the Steps values are in the LCD menu itself, not in any code module. The values are at the end of the Control/Motion screen. Mine are currently set to +160,+160,+160,+0200 so it looks like I should be good to go once I get the new board installed and loaded with my current firmware.

Did you check LCD cable??

Yes. I took the panel off and check the plugs and even turned the white screen a couple of times. That plastic white screen was a little melted. I just ordered another LCD panel from Amazon so when I switch it out we'll see if that fixes it