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MJX BUGS 2W GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C DRONE

MJX Bugs 2W GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone, $239.99 (www.mjxrc.net...)
Manufactured by MJX (www.mjxrc.net)
Last updated 03-27-19

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 GPS -- simply meaning that it can stably hover despite any mild wind and knows where 'Home' is.
2: It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
3: It has all of those wonderful LEDs

This is a small, not lightweight but not heavy either (400g), easy-to-fly 4-channel, brushless motor remote-controlled outdoor drone that has advanced features like GPS tracking, follow-me mode, orbit mode, waypoints, etc. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation at 2.4GHz to communicate to and from the drone.

It sports a 1080p camera with a 5.8GHz transmitter to furnish a live video feed to the app; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!
You will however, need to procure your own MicroSD memory chip. I'd recommend a Class 10. If you use a memory chip that is rated lower than Class 10, you *MAY* see skipped frames, "jitters", unwanted intermittent video artifacts, and similar horse puckey.

The

Size of product w/hand to show scale

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This toy is a bit more complicated to get it to take off than your average toy-grade 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: Plug the drone's battery into the drone itself; just push it into the battery bay until it clicks. The drone will emit a series of tones when this is done. Place the drone on the ground.

2: On the remote control, slide the "OFF/ON" switch near the center toward the right. The remote will emit a BEEP tone when it is powered up. After several seconds, it should emit a second BEEP tone -- this lets you know that the drone and radio are bound with one another.

3: On your cellular telephone handset, go to WiFi settings and click, "Connect" on the entry that reads, "drone" followed by a series of numbers. (If you are not connected to a WiFi hotspot at this time, the drone WiFi signal may connect automatically.)

4: When that indicates "Connected", open the Bugs Go- app.

5: At this point, you'll need to perform a geomagnetic calibration of the drone. Rotate it clockwise two or three times until the LEDs on the underside of its motor pylons turn from pale green to dark green. Now hold the drone vertically with its camera directed downward, and spin it clockwise again two or three times until you see two of the LEDs on its underside turn red. Place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end (the end where the flight battery goes in) faces you.

6: When the two rear LEDs on the drone turn a dark green, GPS lock has been established and you may now safely fly!
Press the Auto Takeoff button on the radio (it's the upper ledt button on the transmitter) or on the app itself. The Bugs 2W GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone should now lift off the ground and come to a hover at approx. 1 meter (39 inches). Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly (including how to fly with your phone only or with the remote transmitter), please read the instructional material that comes with the product.

On the remote control, slide the "OFF/ON" switch near the center toward the left and unplug the drone's battery from the drone to neutralise them when you are finished.

The battery in the Bugs 2W GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone itself is rechargeable; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, remove the Phillips screw from the upper edge of the battery door with the furnished screwdriver, and set it aside. Unclip the little clip that you'll also find on the upper edge of the battery door, and lift the 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 piss ants with full bladders -- 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 in the little screw.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry piss ants that really need to go poddy now?

To charge the battery in the Bugs 2W GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone, plug the larger end of the charger into a standard (US) 110 to 130VAC household AC receptacle (or wall outlet or even wall socket if you prefer to be incorrect), and plug the white receptacle coming from the battery into the other end of the cable.

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

You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the charger from the AC receptacle.

Fully charging the Bugs 2W GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone' battery should give you approx 15 to 20 minutes of flying time.
When the battery is new, your flight times will be significantly shorter; increasing as the battery undergoes a number of charge/discharge cycles. This is perfectly normal for this type of battery.

This R/C drone is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or in a very 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 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 1920×1080 (1080P video quality).

Latency appears to be a significant issue that may forbid true FPV flight -- there is a delay of two or more seconds between what the drone sees vs. what you see in the app!
Altough having live feed on your smartphone is nifty, it is of little actual use beyond lining up photographic or video recordings. Seeing what the drone sees (esp. at altitude) kinda makes up for this little deficiency however!!!

I love my Bugs 2 so much that I don't feel the need to derate it because of its FPV performance!

Photograph of its remote control with my own tablet computer affixed to it.

Photograph of the remote control in its feral state (with no cellphone affixed to it).
The masking tape that you see on the radio is there to cover up the Headless Mode switch, which was the primary reason that the drone got "treed" the same day that I received it.

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 03-13-19 and was received at 1:02pm PDT on 03-20-19.

After what I believed was a mild crash on the morning of 03-25-19, the camera has become somewhat fuxxored. That is, I get decent video most of the time and totally fv¢k€d video some of the time.
However, since it still flies properly, the somewhat dreadful, "

" icon will be appended to its listings on this website, indicating partial destruction of product but its primary functionality remains intact.

On the flight that I made on the morning of 03-26-19, the Bugs 2 appeared to develop a mind of its own, gaining altitude steadily of its own accord. When I pressed the Return to Home button on the radio, the drone began to drop in altitude shortly thereafter (as it should) and then I watched helplessly as it just went suicidal and dropped out of the sky from an altitude of at least 250' (76.20M) directly into the middle of a long, slowly-flowing goose, duck, and fish toliet (a water-filled canal). :(

Since it is now a total loss (it's at the bottom of a long, slowly-flowing canal), I must now add the dreadful, "

" icon to its listings on this website, indicating that the product died in the line of duty.

This is the last image from my FPV screen before the Bugs 2 went blub blub blub in the water with all of the fish and bird $#¡7 in it.

MJX

R/C GPS quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera

LED

13 (1 green in remote, 1 red in charger, 4 red, 4 green in drone, 2 red & 1 blue in camera)

N/A

Slide switch on/off on remote

Plastic

N/A

4x AA cells for remote; 7.4V 1.8Ah (1,800mAh) 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!!!

AC balance charger, 2x flight batteries, remote controller, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, small Phillips screwdriver, prop removal tool, 4 rubber grommets, smartphone bracket

410mm Sq x 80mm T

400g (incl. battery)

China

Six months

Yes, that's seven (7) radios that you see!
Along with the JJPRO "EPIK" drone, this is the best R/C drone that I've seen to date!!!

MJX Bugs 2W GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone * www.jjrc.com...

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