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HUBSAN ZINO H117S GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C DRONE

Hubsan Zino H117S GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone, $369.00 (www.hubsan.com...)
Manufactured by Hubsan (www.hubsan.com)
Last updated 04-29-20

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 and created a new website just a few months ago specifically for flying machines of this nature!!! 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 (700g), 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 BRUSHLESS motors that deliver incredible amounts of power and have a far longer useable lifetime than their brushed counterparts.

It also flaunts a 4K 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!
The camera is stabilised by a three-axis gimbal; this simply means that your photographs will be clear and your videos rock-steady even if the drone is rocking and rolling.

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.

Or (as in my case) the app will pop up a message stating that your MicroSD card is too slow when you attempt to record video -- still photographs can be taken however.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This drone 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 the drone's flight battery ***AND*** the transmitter first (see directly below), install the flight battery, and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly.

You must do these in this order, or you may have connectivity issues!!!

1: Unfold the pylons (arms) -- starting with the two front pylons, and remove the brownish-grey gimbal protector from the front of the drone.

2: Turn on the radio by pressing & holding down the center (of the three circular buttons) button until you hear the radio emit a beep.

3: Turn on drone by pressing and holding down the small circular button near its tail-end until you hear a brief series of high-pitched beeps from it.

4: Connect USB cable to the right side of the transmitter and to your phone. The phone may automatically turn on; slide your finger across the phone's screen to get it past the "lock" screen. The X-Hubsan app should automatically launch within several seconds.

5: Follow the instructions shown on your phone.

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 (or see just below if your Zino did not come with instructional materials as was the case with mine).

On the remote control, press and hold the "OFF/ON" button near the center of the transmitter and press and hold the "OFF/ON" button near the back of the drone itself to neutralise them when you are finished.
Place the gimbal protector back on; gently press until it clicks into place, and fold the pylons (arms) back up -- starting with the two rear pylons.

This is a FOLDING ARM DRONE and the fact that it is foldable is one of its greater selling points.

Instructional materials (in .PDF format).
(Note: this is stored on my own server; it is not hotlinked)

The batteries in the Hubsan Zino H117S GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone AND in the radio are rechargeable; this is how to take care of that.

To charge the battery in the Hubsan Zino H117S GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone, plug the AC end of the charge cable (it looks like the plug that you'd find on something like a household table lamp) into any standard (in North America anyway) 110 to 130 volts AC 60Hz wall receptacle. Plug the wider end of the cable directly into the matching receptacle on the Zino's flight battery.

When the charge cycle is in progress, the LEDs on the charger box (connected to the other end on each cable) will be glowing red. When the charge cycle is complete, these LED should illuminate yellow-green.

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

Fully charging the Hubsan Zino H117S GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone' battery should give you approx 15 to 20 minutes of flying time.

To charge the battery in the radio, plug the larger end of the USB charging cable into any free USB port on your Mac or Pee-Cee computer, and plug the smaller end into the receptacle for it on the right-hand side of the radio's body. Blue LEDs on the radio should now come on and cascade left to right. When all four lights on the radio are steady-on, the charge cycle is complete and you can now safely unplug the cable from the radio and from your computer.

If your computer does not have a USB port (or doesn't have a free one), you may plug the USB-end of the cable into something like a cellular telephone charger.

This R/C 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 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 3840 x 2160 (4K video quality).

The pylons (arms) deploy and stow with a firm feel that doesn't have the slightest hint of wobbliness -- something I'd honestly never expect to see in a "Hoo Phlung Pu" brand of product!!!

because the Zino is not shoddily-made at all; in fact, it oozes quality through and through!!!

Photograph of its remote control with my own cellular telephone handset affixed to it.

Photograph of the remote control in its feral state (with no cellphone affixed to it).

ZINO'S POWER UP SOUND
(in .WAV format; 570,098 bytes)

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 02-03-20 and was received on the early-afternoon of 02-05-20.

On a flight that I made at 11:03am PST on 02-19-20, the Zino was struck by a truck travelling approx. 40mph (~64.40kph) and flung into a very muddy water-filled gutter where it landed upside-down. I thought for sure that the drone was a goner. But when I got home, cleaned it up, I was able to make it flyable again just by pressing the top plate back into place and replacing five rotor blades and two screws -- all of which were furnished in the spare parts bag that was included with the drone.

The only major casualty was the camera gimbal -- it was totally fv¢k€d from the collision. But being the most delicate part of the drone and given the severity of the impact, I wasn't surprised one bit. I was however, mildly surprised at how sturdy and durable the rest of the drone was!!!

A very minor casuality was that the drone's "power" button has gone missing, but I can still activate & deactivate the Zino by using the included screwdriver (with a small rubber bung on its business-end) to actuate the membrane-type switch through the little hole where the button used to be. Leaving the bung in place allows me to press the drone's POWER button with minimal risk of damage.

Since the gimbal ass'y was destroyed but the drone still flies (and flies extremely well mind you!) and shoots photos & video, the, "

" will be appended to its listings on this website at once to denote that the product has partially failed but still does what it was designed to do -- in this case, fly and shoot photos & videos.

UPDATE: 02-27-20
Up until now, I've been having nice flights of my Hubsan Zino.
But when I went to have a pleasant sunset flight yesterday evening, the drone is apparently no longer generating a WiFi hotspot -- and therefore is totally unflyable.

The red "WiFi" light on its side slowly flashes; it should be steady-on when WiFi is being generated.

I have previously verified that both my cellular telephone handset (a Samsung Galaxy 5) and my tablet (an LG VK-410) can handle the 5G WiFi signal output by the Zino.

Since this drone can't fly any more, that dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website.

This condition may be transient (temporary) or permanent; at this point I simply don't know.

In the drone hobby, this drone would be called, "BRICKED" -- e.g. it just sits on the ground like a brick.

Hubsan

R/C GPS quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera on a gimbal

LED

19 (4 blue in remote, 4 red & 4 yellow-green in charger, 3 red, 3 blue in drone, 1 red in camera)

N/A

Slide switch on/off on remote

Plastic

N/A

3.70V 2,600mAh (2.6Ah) Li:PO battery for remote; 11.40V 3,100mAh (3.1Ah) 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!!!

8 X propeller blades, 8 X propeller screws, 1 X gimbal protector, 1 X std. screwdriver, 1 X AC adapter, 1 X balance charger, 1 X USB charger for aircraft battery, 1 X USB charger for transmitter battery, 1 X R/C cable (Lightning connector), 1 X R/C cable (standard Micro USB connector), 1 X R/C cable (USB Type-C connector), 1 X user manual

304.6mm L *252.4mm W *90mm T

700g (incl. battery)

China

One year

Yes, that's seven (7) radios that you see!
This is one of the best R/C drones that I've seen to date!!!

Hubsan Zino H117S GPS 5G WiFi FPV R/C Drone * www.hubsan.com...

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