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FPVRC X5C R/C QUADCOPTER W/ CAMERA & LED LIGHTS

FPVRC X5C R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights $26.95
Manufactured by FPVRC (Web URL not known)
Last updated 03-21-17

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a number of LEDs on its fuselage (this word is definitely *NOT* pronounced "fyoo SELL' uh jee" as Drake Parker from the TV program "Drake and Josh" would pronounce it; the word is pronounced "

, so what the hey

I love things that fly; that's why I took the bate and also why I added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website a number of years ago. I was also attracted to something that this drone has that many others don't...

1:It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
2: It has all of those wonderful LEDs

This is a small, lightweight (110g), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) drone. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.
It is apparently a clone of the Syma X5C drone.

It sports a camera; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This toy is remarkably easy to use for a drone...here's how to get it off the ground:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), install the flight battery, and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cats would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).

1: On the remote control, slide the on/off switch upward (toward the antenna) -- the switch is located directly between the two joysticks.

2: Slide the little black switch at the rear of the drone's fuselage toward the right and place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the green LEDs and the power switch) faces you.

Move several feet away from the drone (at least six feet away).

3: The red light on the radio will now come on and start blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward and then let it go back. This "arms" the drone. If you did this correctly, that red light will go from blinking to steady-on and the R/C should emit a series of two tones in rapid succession.

4: Gently push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward a second time -- but do so more gingerly this time so that the drone doesn't just blast away -- it has a good deal of thrust, so the possibility of it getting away in this manner does exist.

5: The FPVRC X5C R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights should now lift off the ground. Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.

Turn off the Power switch on the drone & the radio when finished using them.
Same switches as before -- but slide them in the opposite directions this time.

The battery in the FPVRC X5C R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights itself is rechargeable; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, unscrew & remove the phillips screw from the battery door on the underside of the unit, using a small phillips screwdriver (the #0 from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers worked well here). Set the screw aside.

Slide the battery door off toward the rear of the radio, carry it to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down those stairs into the basement crawling with thousands of hungry silverfish that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable, so they all pass micturition on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the four used AA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert four new AA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, place the battery door back on, and screw the screw back in.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry silverfish that really need to go poddy now?

To charge the battery in the FPVRC X5C R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights, take the thin cord that's attached to the USB charger dongle, and plug the small end into the cable on the battery itself. Plug the larger end into any USB port on your Mac or pee-cee

When the charge cycle is in progress, the red LED on the charger will be off. When the charge cycle is complete, this LED should turn on.

You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the USB dongle from your computer.

Fully charging the FPVRC X5C R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights' battery should give you approx 7 to 9 minutes of flying time.

This RC drone is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or in a large open room indoors), not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.

So this section of the drone's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

The range of the radio in the Tx (R/C hobby talk for "transmitter") is stated as 150 meters (~328 feet); frequency is stated as 2.4GHz.

The unit has a 4-channel remote control; this allows for forward / backward / up / down / left / right movement (movement on all three axes -- X, Y, and Z). It also has a fully proportional control system; simply meaning that the motor speeds can be varied depending on how far you move the joysticks -- it isn't simply "full power and no power at all" like some other R/C products.

One thing that it lacks is an altitude hold feature. When the drone is gaining altitude, it will keep going up, up and away unless you pay close attention to it so that you can throttle back on that left stick!!!

The camera has a pixel density of 2.0MP -- that's 2,000,000 pixels; I found this to be fairly impressive given the size and low cost of the drone.

Photograph of its remote control.

ALL OF THE FLIGHT VIDEOS ARE ON THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS EVAL. WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Ebay on 03-03-17 (or "2017 03 Mar." or even "March 03, Twenty Stick-Broken-Stick" if you prefer), and was received on the afternoon of 03-09-17.

UPDATE: 03-21-17
I was flying it on the evening of the 19th, and it inexplicably sailed away. Attempting to locate it using its radio was fruitless, so that dreadful, "

" icon must now be appended to its listings on this website to indicate that the little plastic drone has become lost in the line of duty.

FPVRC

Mini-sized R/C quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera

LED

8 (1 red in radio, 1 red in charger, 1 blue & 1 red in camera, 2 orange and 2 green in drone itself)

N/A

Slide on/off on drone & on radio

Plastic

N/A

4x AA cells for radio; 3.70V 600mAh Li:PO battery for drone

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance only

EIN GROßER RIESIGER GEIST, DER EINEN RIESIGEN PLUMPS NIMMT UND DANN DEN KOPF UNROT NEIN VERLÄSST!!!

USB charging dongle w/ cable, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, small Phillips screwdriver, at least 9 screws

315mm Sq. x 75mm T

110g

China

Unknown/not stated

FPVRC X5C R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights * www.amazon.com...

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