<![CDATA[Is my Atom lite dead?]]>Hi, I've been playing with a servo and my atom lite. Put the servo under a table to see if it could lift it, it couldn't so the movement didn't finish. No big deal, but after that, I couldn't get the atom to work again or to connect to my UIFlow. Is there a trick that I don't know of to connect it?

Also, when it's connected to USB on my PC, it is super hot though the LED is off. Hope it didn't fry :/ It also doesn't show up in UIFlow or M5Burner...

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/topic/4543/is-my-atom-lite-deadRSS for NodeTue, 10 Mar 2026 21:58:48 GMTSat, 20 Aug 2022 08:13:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Is my Atom lite dead? on Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:24:46 GMT]]>Many thanks to you for all the advice! I was indeed using a servo way too powerful for the atom. My mistake, I've learnt something :)

All the best to you

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/post/18423https://community.m5stack.com/post/18423Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:24:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is my Atom lite dead? on Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:24:58 GMT]]>@guillaume22 Yes, for tasks like what you were trying you should be using something like this: https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-motion-kit-with-motor-and-servo-driver-stm32f0?ref=pfpqkvphmgr

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but this only powers servos up to 0.4A and so if the power draw of the servo is more, you will need to use a non M5Stack product for driving a servo.

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/post/18408https://community.m5stack.com/post/18408Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:24:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is my Atom lite dead? on Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:07:34 GMT]]>@ajb2k3 thank you for your answer, I honestly doubted that I could kill the atom by draining too much power from it.
You mean that I should buy a servo driver in order to supply more juice? Thank you

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/post/18407https://community.m5stack.com/post/18407Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:07:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is my Atom lite dead? on Sun, 21 Aug 2022 07:15:00 GMT]]>unfortunately it sounds like you may have killed the Atom.
If you wanted to try and lift a table you should have used one of the servo adding as the Atom can only supply a little bit of power and trying to lift a table drew way too much power.

]]>https://community.m5stack.com/post/18405https://community.m5stack.com/post/18405Sun, 21 Aug 2022 07:15:00 GMT