Aftermarket LED fried AP board

I bought a Juupine LED strip on Aliexpress for my X1C. I read the 4-5 star reviews and made the mistake of not reading the 1-star reviews. The LED strip fried the LED connection on my AP board after a few weeks. Now the LED strip provides a dim light that never turns off, but it never provides full power now. I talked to support and I can get a new AP board through them for +$150. So I think my options are:

  1. Buy new AP board and install it (which will restore the standard LED light functionality)
  2. Just forget about it (and buy my own LED light w/ separate power source)

I would love to get the standard light back but not sure it’s worth the cost and effort. Does anyone know of any other good options? Is there a way to repair the AP board?

I’d go for choice 1. It’s safer (and wiser).

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Do a search for "led abnormal’ in Bambu wiki and you will get some troubleshooting steps. Check both X1 and P1 results as some of the components might be similar. Repairing may be as simple as replacing a component on the board, only concern is if one is fried you may not be able to read the print to know what it was. This forum will then be a good place to get answers. I had a complete different issue, SD card could not be read and instead of replacing the board which was the obvious answer, I replaced the SD slot.

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Symptoms sound exactly like a fried mosfet. If you have a buddy in the electronics / arduino hobby with some SMD soldering experience and possibly a thermal cam that’s a 20min fix.

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Looking at the wiki at this page: Chamber LED fill light is abnormal & printer restarts | Bambu Lab Wiki

I assume it’s the mosfet highlighted at the bottom of this page. This might be worth a try. Thanks!

If you mean the 8 pin IC in the pictures - I don’t think so. That’s the 5V voltage regulator. The board would be dead if that guy was fried.
There should be a 3 pin mosfet in the vicinity of the led cable connector. Check the wiki for the p1p. I expect the same basic circuit on the x1c board: P1 LED fill light abnormal | Bambu Lab Wiki

The switch seems to be an ordinary sot 23 N-channel mosfet with min 300mA current rating. Bottom left thingy on this image https://wiki.bambulab.com/p1/troubleshooting/chamber-led/connector_details_en.jpg

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I put 24v LEDs on the bottom of one of the AMS units. This one sits atop the printer. It came with the power supply, dimmer and 16ft of LEDs with sticky-back tape. I have it set up on a remote-control switch that turns on the X1C and the lights.

This is what the inside of the cabinet looks like. And it’s not even on full brightness.

No need to worry about the LIDAR. What it’s reading is in the shadows.

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I read about people wiring lights in the printer before but didn’t want to mess with that.

I attached this light to a shelf above the printer. It is pretty useful, I will sometimes bend the light down so it is shining in the front door when I am inspecting the model or doing maintenance in the printer.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0BX5PP4PP?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

Being retired, I’m more frugal. :rofl:

This is the one I got and can be trimmed to size (length). COB LEDs also from Amazon. And this Connector Kit to help round the corners. If you can’t or don’t want to do any soldering, this Kit will do the corners.

For anyone looking to safely mod their X1/P1 Series to have more LEDs…

Purchase an external power supply suitable for the voltage of the LEDs you are looking to drive: 5v,12v or 24v. (12v strips are probably the cheapest and most ubiquitous)
Wire the LED output from the X1/P1 directly to the input on one of these:
https://a.co/d/65IuZgu

Wire the output of the above relay in series with the power to your after market (5v,12v,or 24v) LED strip.

This will have the printer turn your new strip automagically just like it does with stock LEDs, without damaging your control board from too much current draw or mismatched voltages.

It’s quite simple and easy to do and also completely isolates the LED circuit from the printer circuitry.
This is how mine is wired.

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That’s great idea but you still have to dig into the printer’s inner circuitry or wiring. I wanted to avoid that at all costs–For the reason(s) that started this thread. External lighting has no attachment to the printer at all.

Thanks for the link. I have a use for that somewhere else and didn’t want to use the clumsy SCRs I have now. :sunglasses:

No you don’t.
You only need to tap into the wires already connected to the stock LED board.
(Replace the chamber LED | Bambu Lab Wiki)

The connector is exposed in the front of the frame.

Or you can tap into the LED board wires.

I just cut the wire from the LED board to use the connector and extended the wire to the back of the frame where I mounted the SSR with some magnets.

If you look at my picture, it’s the red and black wire running along the top and running down through where the wries from the tool head go.

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I guess our definitions of “digging into circuitry or wiring” are different. :roll_eyes:

Well, the OP connected his after-market LEDs to the same wire I am advocating you connect the SSR to.
So, it’s the same amount of “digging into circuitry or wiring” in my opinion.

And to be fair you said “the printer’s inner circuitry or wiring”.
It’s already been “externalized” to the stock LED board.

So, yes our definitions differ. :wink:

I went slightly overboard but same as lexi I’m not tapping into original circuitry, just supply from the socket (so it’s really home wiring rather than printer wiring) and drive a relay (mechanical in my case rather than electronic) from the led connector. There is a lot less current draw from the relay (about 5mA) than the original led (about 150mA). Of course this only fits a P1, there is a board on the X1 where my meanwell 220V/5V sits. I wanted to make sure I would totally avoid drawing any current from my printer while still keeping the original functionnality of the led switching. My original USB 5V socket is only used to power my panda touch although I could have powered it from the meanwell 5V power supply but this way, current draw from both is well below the max output and everything stay cool.


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If you didn’t want to cut the cable from the existing BL LED board, you could just purchase the replacement LED for the X1:

And use that wire/connector to drive you mechanical or solid state relay.
I am 99% sure both the P1 and X1 use the same connector.

EDIT - The above replacement is only for the X1. The P1 connector is slightly different.

Different connectors. FWIW P1S use a JST-GH 1.25 connector, X1C is different, mini JST may be. JST GH 1.25 is available on amazon (large expensive set) or aliexpress (cheap and smaller set of connectors).

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Uggg. I only have a P1P and the connector I have looks just like the one listed on the replacement X1 - LED listing.

Good catch! That’s why I said “99% sure”

I can’t beleive they actually used different connectors.

So silly BL!

Well, you can buy that spare board for the X1 and cut the connector. They only sell the LED board bundled with the camera for the P1 for 3 times the cost. Doesn’t seem worth it unless you need the camera anyways.