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NEBULA CRUISER NX 2.4GHz 4-CH. 6-AXIS GYRO R/C QUADCOPTER

Nebula Cruiser NX 2.4GHz 4-Ch. 6-Axis Gyro R/C Quadcopter ~$100.00 (www.amazon.com...)
Manufactured by Odyssey
Last updated 01-16-16

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, laser, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a bunch of LEDs on its undercarriage, so what the hey.

This is only the twentieth {?} R/C helicopter (well, quadcopter 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 added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website a number of years ago.

This is a medium-large, lightweight, easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) quadcopter. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.

***VERY IMPORTANT!!!*** The Nebula Cruiser NX does not come with a camera; I taped one on myself in order to perform aerial videography.
The Nebula Cruiser NX straight out of the box is NOT a drone; however my having added a camera to it makes it one.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This toy is remarkably easy to use for a quadcopter...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: Place the quadcopter on the ground so that the tail-end (the end without the white LEDs) faces you. Use the red slide switch on the upper surface of the Nebula Cruiser NX to turn it on. All of its LEDs should come on and blink in unison (at the same time).

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

2: On the remote control, turn the "on/off" switch to the "on" position. A fairly loud, single "beep" should issue from it.

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

4: Gently push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward a third time -- but do so more gingerly this time so that the quadcopter doesn't just blast away.

5: The Nebula Cruiser NX 2.4GHz 4-Ch. 6-Axis Gyro R/C Quadcopter 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 the remote control & quadcopter off when finished using them.
Same switches as before, but slide them in the opposite direction this time.

The battery in the Nebula Cruiser NX 2.4GHz 4-Ch. 6-Axis Gyro R/C Quadcopter 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.

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 Nebula Cruiser NX 2.4GHz 4-Ch. 6-Axis Gyro R/C Quadcopter, take the USB charging dongle and plug that into any free USB port on your pee-cee or Mac, and plug the small end of the cable with the small plug on it into the white rectangular receptacle at the end of the battery's cable.

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

You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the USB-end of the cable.

Fully charging the Nebula Cruiser NX 2.4GHz 4-Ch. 6-Axis Gyro R/C Quadcopter's battery should give you 6 to 10 minutes of flying time.

This RC quadcopter 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 cannońata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Pińata" 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 cannońata is only used to shoot pińatas to pińata parties away from picturesque Pińata 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 quadcopter'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 150 feet (~45.7 meters).

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.

This is very slow as quadcopters go; that gives you plenty of time to turn or otherwise make course corrections.

Photograph of its remote control (it's the one on the right).
There are two radios shown here because the one on the left came with my original Nebula Cruiser, and the one on the right came with its replacement after the original was destroyed on its maiden voyage.

Photograph of the quadcopter with its lights on.

Photograph of the undercarriage of this quadcopter with its lights on.

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

UPDATE: 01-16-16
The rear starboard (right) prop failed and I have yet to figure out where the trouble is; the prop and gearing are not jammed in any way; this narrows it down to either the motor wiring or the electronics.

I still have the cold, lifeless fuselage of the original; if the problem lies with the motor, wiring, or electronics board, I may be able to repair it once I can procure an appropriately small screwdriver.

In the interim, I have appended that dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon to its listings on this website to denote that the product has failed and is unusable as-is.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was originally given to me as a Christmas present in 2015; but I promptly destroyed it the very next day after it landed in the eastbound lane of Olympic Hwy. N. in Shelton WA. USA and was subsequently run over by at least several vehicles & ruined. So I purchased another one the very next morning.

It flies somewhat sluggishly; this is in large part due to the sheer size & mass of the aircraft -- this is why it received such a low rating.

UPDATE: 00-00-00

Odyssey

Medium/large-sized (over two feet in length!) R/C quadcopter

LED

42 (1 red in radio 1 red in charging dongle, 40 in quadcopter itself)

N/A

Slide switch on/off on R/C, same on quadcopter itself

Compressed foam

N/A

4x AA cells for R/C; 7.40V 500mAh Li:PO battery for quadcopter

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance only

ĄĄĄUN FANTASMA ESPANTOSO GRANDE QUE TOMA UNA MIERDA ENORME EN UNA CESTO PARA PAPELES PLÁSTICO , NO!!!

USB charger dongle, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, small Phillips screwdriver

61.98cm L x 43.94cm W x 10.92cm H

164.30g (5.760 oz.) incl. flight battery

China

Unknown/not stated

Nebula Cruiser NX 2.4GHz 4-Ch. 6-Axis Gyro R/C Quadcopter* www.amazon.com...

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