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SYMA X5C R/C DRONE

Syma X5C R/C Drone $38.24 (www.symatoys.com...)
Manufactured by Syma (www.symatoys.com/)
Last updated 04-23-17

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 (105g), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) drone. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.

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

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: On the remote control, slide the on/off switch upward (toward the antenna) -- the switch is located directly between the two joysticks.

2: Slide the little black switch at the rear of the drone's fuselage toward the right and place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the green LEDs and the power switch) faces you.

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

3: The red light on the radio will now come on and start blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward and then let it go back. 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.

4: Gently push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward a second time -- but do so more gingerly this time so that the drone doesn't just blast away -- it has a good deal of thrust, so the possibility of it getting away in this manner does exist.

5: The Syma X5C R/C 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.

Turn off the Power switch on the drone & the radio when finished using them.
Same switches as before -- but slide them in the opposite directions this time.

The battery in the Syma X5C R/C 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 a small phillips screwdriver (the #0 from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers worked well here). Set the screw aside.

Slide the battery door off toward the rear of the radio, 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 go pee-pee 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 leaf spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, place the battery door back on, and screw the screw back in.
The screw is simply to make the radio childproof in that the AA cells cannot be removed and then swallowed by a child -- if you live in a household without young children, the screw can actually be left off and stashed in a drawer somewhere; such as in the kitchen garbage drawer. (Cummon admit it! I bet you have a drawer like this somewhere in your home...very probably in the kitchen as well!)

Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry silverfish that really need to pass micturition now?

To charge the battery in the Syma X5C R/C Drone, take the thin cord that's attached to the USB charger dongle, and plug the small end into the cable on the battery itself. 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 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 dongle from your computer.

Fully charging the Syma X5C R/C Drone' battery should give you approx 9 to 11 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, trashed, 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 30 meters (98.4 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.

One thing that it lacks is an altitude hold feature. When the drone is gaining altitude, it will keep going up, up and away unless you pay close attention to it so that you can throttle back on that left stick!!!

The camera has a pixel density of 2.0MP -- that's 2,000,000 pixels; I found this to be fairly impressive given the size and low cost of the drone.

The range is unexpectly short; just 30 meters (98.4 feet) -- plus the drone has a random lag time of up to several seconds when responding to controller input...these are what prevented it from rating really high on this website.

Photograph of its remote control.

Photograph of the front of the drone, showing its camera.

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 03-20-17 (or "2017 03 Mar." or even "March 03, Twenty Stick-Broken-Stick" if you prefer), and was received at 8:56am PDT on 03-24-17 (minor milestone here -- this is the earliest in the day that I've ever received a delivery!).

UPDATE: 03-27-17
This drone can LITERALLY fall out of the sky!

If you aren't paying attention to the orange & green lights on the underside of the pylons, fail to notice them start flashing, and fail to bring your drone in ***RIGHT NOW***, the X5C will fall out of the sky shortly after these lights begin to flash...needless to say, if you're at a high altitude and the area under the drone isn't grassy or meadowy, you're probably going to see damage (possibly significant) to your drone when you go to retrieve it.

UPDATE: 04-16-17
This drone has an absolutely GORGEOUS candy apple red paint job!!!
It strongly reminds me of the candy apple red paint job my brother Gordie gave his 1969 GTO.

UPDATE: 04-23-17
The gay little plastic drone has become lost in the line of duty

; therefore that dreadful, "

" icon must regretfully be added to its listings on this website at once.

The drone flew beyond the range of its radio ***AGAIN*** and was last seen blasting toward the surface at an ~80° angle. My attempts to locate it with its radio (to listen for the motors) resulted in failure; and using my Syma X8C Venture R/C Camera Drone as a means of locating it from the air also failed...I believe that it crashed into a tree and went fairly deeply into its canopy -- that would preclude it being located audibly or visually.

Syma

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

LED

12 (1 blue in radio, 1 red in charger, 1 green & 1 orange in camera, 4 orange and 4 green in drone itself)

N/A

Slide on/off on drone & on radio

Plastic

N/A

4x AA 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, 4GB micro-TF memory chip, USB memory chip reader, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, 4x blade guards, 2x landing skids, small Phillips screwdriver

315mm Sq. x 75mm T

100.1g incl. battery & micro-TF memory chip

China

Unknown/not stated

Syma X5C R/C Drone * www.symatoys.com...

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