Last week I got my hands on one of the new Quadrino advanced boards with autoleveling, altitude hold, and compass. Initially I put it on an extended Gaui frame with ESCs and motors that I had been flying with a KK blue board but no amount of PID tuning could get rid of the wobbles. While I was able to find some settings that made it flyable it didn't really fly all that well with those settings so I removed the board and went back to the KK controller.
I was on the verge of selling the Quadrino when I ran into problems with a bad board on one of my MK Hexa so the X8 project gave up its borrowed MK electronics stack to get the Hexa back to normal. Without a full set of boards to drive the X8 I decided to break it back down into a quad allowing use of any of a number of other controllers I have on hand. Removing the MK XL landing legs and Avterical camea mount gave me a basic quad platform with a good set of Turnigy Plush ESCs and Flycam 925 motors. I briefly put a Hoverfly board on it to see how much better (or worse) the latest firmware release is, my opinion is that its much better than the previous release but still quirky, not good enough to make me want to go down that road again at the moment.
Curiosity satisfied I removed the Hoverfly board and installed the Quadrino, figured I had nothing to lose by trying. To my amazement it flew rather nicely even on the somewhat odd PID settings I had on the board. Resetting everything back to where it was when delivered tightened things up considerably and the end result is it flys as well, perhaps a little better than the Hoverfly board. The Quadrino autoleveling actually seems to work better than the H/F, the altitude hold not quite as well as that was an area of huge improvement in this release of H/F firmware (almost anything would have been an improvement over A/H in their last release!).
End result is the Quadrino turns out to be a pretty nice little package, still need to do a bit of trimming and maybe a little bit more work getting the settings right for the setup. I was right about the board not liking the ESC's on the smaller frame, given a set of Turnigys the difference is night and day so I guess there's cheap speed controllers, and really cheap speed controllers, you get what you pay for!
Ken
I was on the verge of selling the Quadrino when I ran into problems with a bad board on one of my MK Hexa so the X8 project gave up its borrowed MK electronics stack to get the Hexa back to normal. Without a full set of boards to drive the X8 I decided to break it back down into a quad allowing use of any of a number of other controllers I have on hand. Removing the MK XL landing legs and Avterical camea mount gave me a basic quad platform with a good set of Turnigy Plush ESCs and Flycam 925 motors. I briefly put a Hoverfly board on it to see how much better (or worse) the latest firmware release is, my opinion is that its much better than the previous release but still quirky, not good enough to make me want to go down that road again at the moment.
Curiosity satisfied I removed the Hoverfly board and installed the Quadrino, figured I had nothing to lose by trying. To my amazement it flew rather nicely even on the somewhat odd PID settings I had on the board. Resetting everything back to where it was when delivered tightened things up considerably and the end result is it flys as well, perhaps a little better than the Hoverfly board. The Quadrino autoleveling actually seems to work better than the H/F, the altitude hold not quite as well as that was an area of huge improvement in this release of H/F firmware (almost anything would have been an improvement over A/H in their last release!).
End result is the Quadrino turns out to be a pretty nice little package, still need to do a bit of trimming and maybe a little bit more work getting the settings right for the setup. I was right about the board not liking the ESC's on the smaller frame, given a set of Turnigys the difference is night and day so I guess there's cheap speed controllers, and really cheap speed controllers, you get what you pay for!
Ken
