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JJR/C H66 R/C X-MAS EGG DRONE

JJR/C H66 R/C X-Mas Egg Drone, $30.88 (www.jjrc.com...)
Manufactured by JJR/C (www.jjrc.com)
Last updated 03-04-18

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 (68g), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) drone. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation; it also interfaces with your cellular telephone handset (smartphones only) or your tablet using a free app that you can find on Google Play (Android) or the App Store (Apple Iphone).

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

The most unique things about this drone is the radio controller: it has one joystick to control throttle and yaw, and uses the movements of your hand to control pitch & roll!
Camera functions (take still photo and record video) must be performed from the app on your phone or tablet; there are no photo/video buttons on the radio.

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: Remove the transparent elastic band from around the drone's body. Set it somewhere safe because you might need it again (see the Test Notes section to find out why!) On the underside of the drone, push the button fairly firmly so that all of the propeller arms deploy. Press it more than once if necessary.

2: On the remote control, slide the small switch on the left side of the radio's body to the "ON" position.

3: Turn the drone on using the button on its top and place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end faces you.

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

4: The red light on the radio will now come on and start blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward, pull it back toward you, and then allow it to return to the neutral (center) position. 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.

5: Press & release the joystick.

6: The JJR/C H66 R/C X-Mas Egg Drone 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.

Slide the POWER switch on the radio to the "OFF" position and turn the drone off when finished using them.

The battery in the JJR/C H66 R/C X-Mas Egg Drone 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 the included small phillips screwdriver. Set the screw aside.

Swing the battery door away, 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 two used AAA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert two new AAA 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 JJR/C H66 R/C X-Mas Egg Drone, take the thin cord that's attached to the USB charger dongle, and plug the small end into the female receptacle on the side of the drone near its top. 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 JJR/C H66 R/C X-Mas Egg Drone' battery should give you approx 5 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 80 meters (~262.5 feet) to 100 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.

The camera has a video resolution of 1280 x 720 (720P video quality).

Photograph of its rather unusual 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 11-01-17 and was received on 11-06-17.

When the transparent elastic band was removed, three of the arms summarily sprung up. There is a tiny latch at the end of each arm; they do not appear to hold the drone's arms in a folded position. That's why I advise hanging onto that band.

UPDATE: 02-24-18
The landing struts come off rather easily; although I haven't yet had them fall off in mid-flight, they quite readily pop off during landings -- and not hard landings either.

UPDATE: 03-04-18
The drone experienced what is known in the R/C aircraft hobby as a, "fly away" and has subsequently become lost.
Therefore, the always-dreadful, "

" has been appended to its listings on this website.

JJR/C

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

LED

4 (1 red in radio, 1 red in charger, 1 red and 1 blue in drone itself)

N/A

Pushbutton on/off on radio & drone

Plastic

N/A

2x AAA cells for radio; 3.70V 500mAh 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, prop removal tool

178mm x 180mm x 32mm (unfolded),146mm x 67mm x 32mm (folded)

68g

China

Unknown/not stated

JJR/C H66 R/C X-Mas Egg Drone * www.wallmart.com...

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