AIO flight controller broken

[edsmith]

Hi all

I’ve built and been using LOS the air-ro quad for a few months now. The AIO flight controller from the electric wingman kit, the hglrc AIO has developed and intermittent fault where one motor would stop spinning resulting in a crash. I took the quad apart this afternoon and discovered the 8 pin connector between the ESC board and flight board has partially detached. Well it’s completely detached now lol.

I obviously need a replacement, and would like to ask which one people consider a worthy replacement.

I’d like something that’s future proof in terms of beta flight firmware.

If you could let me have some suggestions I’d be grateful.

Regards

Ed

[ched]

Do you think you could solder wires between where the connector should go? You might be able to fix it?

[edsmith]

I looked at doing that but it’s pulled the tracks off the board as well.

[ched]

I looked at doing that but it’s pulled the tracks off the board as well.

Sugar, no way to trace them back a bit to be able to solder wires on? Sometimes FC's have pads as well as connectors for the esc control. Probably not as it was a stack but worth checking.

[edsmith]

I can’t see a way to fix it, I think it’s a bit of a bad design to be honest, as there’s too much play in the mounting holes which allows the boards to oscillate and that’s what I think has caused the connector to come loose and subsequently break off.

[DarkButterfly]

I would trace the connections back from the ESC and run some "bodge" wires to reconnect the FC to the ESC.

[Cheredanine]

Raceflight have some nice options on this area but a bit pricey. I would go with another hgl stack tbh

[edsmith]

My only concern with using another hgl stack is the connector is most certainly a weak point. I didn’t realise at the time of building the small amount of play in the mounting holes would have so much effect.

The race flight stacks look to have over come this by using a plug and fly lead arrangement. But pricey as you say.

[Cheredanine]

Any ammount of play means the F.C. is moving separately from the frame, this results in gyro readings for behaviour that the quad is not exhibiting, and the correction thereof, in short there is a chance the quad would fly but horribly but mostly it would be unflyable.
I have many (about 5) quads with hglrc stacks in them, I know others such as Lamaule, Jakalas, tryingto, etc etc also all use the stack. I know we (myself and the pilots on that list) crash, often, and not lightly.
Honestly the stack is fine.

[edsmith]

I would guess the connector on the stack is faulty then, as I’ve never crashed hard. in fact mostly just bounced down trying to land, currently I’m only flying very delicately LOS haha.

I’ll look into getting either another stack or a replacement ESC board as that’s where the connector has parted from.

As a side note talking about the flight controller, is it capable of taking the latest beta flight firmware, version 3.5???

[Cheredanine]

Sounds like the most likely situation

Yes mate, 3.5 will work on it