CHEERSON CX-33C Hexcopter w/ Camera, $47.42 (www.gearbest.com...)
Manufactured by Guangdong Cheerson Hobby Technology Company Ltd. (URL not known)
Last updated 09-26-16
This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have some bright LEDs on its fuselage, so what the hey.
This is only the twenty fifth {?} R/C helicopter (well, hexcopter or even drone!) to have graced these pages (out of at least a thousand other products) over the last sixteen-plus years this website has been online, so please play nice and don't bite my head off to tell me that I forgot some important detail.
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 hexcopter has that many others don't...
It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
This is a medium-small, lightweight (I), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) hexcopter. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.
It sports a camera; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!
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This toy is remarkably easy to use for a hexcopter...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 cat would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).
1: On the remote control, turn the "on/off" switch to the "on" position.
2: Plug the flight battery into the receptacle for it on the inside of the battery compartment, close the hatch, and slide the little black switch located nearby to the "ON" position.
3: Place the hexcopter on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the red LEDs) faces you.
Move several feet away from the hexcopter (at least six feet away).
4: Push the left-hand stick on the remote control left & right several times until the red LEDs on the tail of the hexcopter stop flashing. This "arms" the hexcopter. If you did this correctly, that blue LED on the radio will go from blinking to steady-on.
5: Press & release the, "One Button Takeoff" button near the uppere right edge of the radio (this button will have an upward-facing arrow silkscreened next to it).
6: The CHEERSON CX-33C Hexcopter w/ Camera 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 (well, is SUPPOSED to come -- my CX-33C came without it) with the product.
When the flight battery starts to go down the tube, the hexcopter will gently land by itself.
To shoot realtime aerial video, press & release the button on the front of the Tx near the upper left with the 'camera' graphic printed next to it. Press & release it again to neutralise the recording of video.
Turn the remote control & the hexcopter off when finished using it.
Same switches as before, but slide them in the opposite direction this time.
The battery in the CHEERSON CX-33C Hexcopter w/ Camera 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 larger of the two furnished phillips screwdrivers. Set the screw aside.
Remove the battery door, 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 that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable so that they drag it to the queen, who also finds it distasteful so she pisses on it and instructs the worker ants to do the same...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 piss ants with full bladders now?
To charge the battery in the CHEERSON CX-33C Hexcopter w/ Camera, take the largish USB plug and plug it into any free USB port on your computer. A red LED in the USB plug should turn on.
Find the thicker of the two battery cables with the large white plug on the end, and plug it into the matching receptacle for it on the end of the charger's cord. A green LED in the USB charger should now come on and start blinking.
Let it cook for 80 or maybe 90 minutes (assuming the flight battery is completely flat); when the green light in the USB charger dongle goes from flashing to steady-on, the charge cycle is complete. Unplug the flight battery and then unplug the USB charger dongle.
Fully charging the CHEERSON CX-33C Hexcopter w/ Camera's battery should give you 6 to 10 minutes of flying time.
This RC hexcopter 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 hexcopter'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 (RC hobby talk for "transmitter") is stated as being 60 to 100 meters (~196 to ~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.
I have noted that the unit has a somewhat "robotic" feel to it, especially when acending & decending. No, this isn't a bad thing; it's just the first time I've flown a drone with this peculiarity.
Photograph of its remote control.
Photograph of the hexcopter with its lights on.
Photograph of the hexcopter in the air.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs on the back section of the fuselage of this hexcopter.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs on the back section of the fuselage of this hexcopter; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 630nm and 645nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 645.540nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at sy-x25-r.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs on the forward sections of the fuselage of this hexcopter.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs on the forward sections of the fuselage of this hexcopter; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 449nm and 459nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 452.590nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at sy-x25-b.txt
Maiden flights of my CHEERSON CX-33C Hexcopter w/ Camera 04-13-16
Flights took place over a vacant lot near the intersection of Ellinor Ave. and Summit Dr. in Shelton WA. USA at 7:07am PDT on 04-13-16 (or, "2016 13 Apr." or even, "April 13, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were mostly cloudy, temperature of 41�F (5�C), and winds reported as being clam.
L'un peu gros {terme d'argot vulgaire pour le vide de p�nis} [surgeon de coq baisant ; un fagot baisant] dans le short gris et hoodie vert en haut pass� comme un �clair que tu vois est le pilote - moi �videmment. (The somewhat fat {vulgar slang term for penis vacuum} [fv�k!n6 �0�k$v�k3r; a fv�k!n6 F46607] in the grey shorts and zipped-up green hoodie that you see is the pilot -- me of course). ;-)
The music that you hear is the song, "The Voice of Energy" by the German electronica group Kraftwerk.
This product is not audio- (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it pisses you off.
This video is 19.306789890043 megabytes (19,366,235 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than ninety six minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
ALL OF THE REST OF THE FLIGHT VIDEOS ARE ON THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS EVAL. WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was donated by an anonymous website visitor; it was purchased by him on Gearbest on 03-22-16 and was received in the early-afternoon of 04-12-16.
UPDATE: 04-18-16
A couple of days ago, I discovered that the camera's lens is adjustable in the Y-axis (up and down). I have not seen this feature in other drones or camera helicopters that I've owned, so I thought that it would be worthy of mention.
UPDATE: 05-04-16
The onboard camera has failed and a very tiny gear became busted in the upper rear gearhead ass'y; I have a replacement hexcopter on the way though so no 'product has failed' icon will appear.
UPDATE: 06-09-16
The replacement hexcopter arrived on the afternoon of 06-07-16, so my flights can now resume.
UPDATE: 09-26-16
While making a flight on the afternoon of 09-24-16, the starboard (right) lower motor failed and it sailed wildly out of control over our house and crashed either onto the roof or into some tall deciduous trees near our house. The gay little plastic drone appears to be a total loss. Therefore, the always dreadful, "" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website, denoting the fact that the aircraft became lost in the line of duty.
It's a shame, becaused I really liked the little guy, and I don't have the $$$ to purchase a replacement.
MANUFACTURER: Guangdong Cheerson Hobby Technology Company Ltd.
PRODUCT TYPE: Micro-sized R/C hexcopter w/inbuilt camera
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: 9 (1 blue on the radio, 1 red & 1 green in the charger, 6 in hexcopter itself)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide switch on/off on R/C; slide switch on/off on hexcopter itself
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A BATTERY: 4x AA cells for R/C; 3.70V 650mAh Li:PO battery for hexcopter
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light sprinkle-resistance only
SUBMERSIBLE: ���UN FANTASMA ESPANTOSO GRANDE QUE TOMA UNA MIERDA ENORME EN UNA CESTA DE PAPEL USADO PL�STICA, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: USB charging cable, USB card reader dongle, 2GB micro-SD memory chip, flight battery, 2x rotor blades, 6x plastic blade guards, 6x "vacuumable" tiny screws for them, small & medium Phillips screwdrivers
SIZE: 310 W x 345 L x 85mm H
WEIGHT: 152g (5.36 oz.) incl. battery & memory chip
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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Therefore, the always dreadful, "
" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website, denoting the fact that the aircraft became lost in the line of duty.
