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HUBSAN H117S ZINO PRO+ ULTRA HD 4K QUADCOPTER

Hubsan H117S Zino Pro+ Ultra HD 4K Quadcopter, $410.00 (www.hubsan.com...)
Manufactured by Hubsan (www.hubsan.com)
Last updated 05-11-21

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 couple of years 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 three-axis mechanical gimbal on the camera; this ensures steady video even if the drone is-a-rocking.
3: It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
4: It has all of those wonderful LEDs

This is a small, not lightweight but not heavy either (810g), 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.

Its camera has an 89° FOV (Field Of View) and can record in 4K (3840*2160 at 30FPS (Frames Per Second).

It also flaunts a 4K camera; 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:

First off, load the app called, "X-Hubsan 2" (the Android version from Google Play) onto your 5G WiFi cellular telephone handset.

Clip your cellular telephone handset into the bottom of the radio, and plug one end of the furnished cable into the receptacle on the right side of the radio and the other end into the receptacle in the bottom of your cell phone. Turn your phone on.

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 (an audio file farther down this web page allows you to hear this so that you'll know what to listen for).

4: Follow the instructions shown on your phone.

5: To "arm" the drone for launch, pull the left stick on the radio to the 7:00 position and pull the right stick to the 5:00 position. Whe the motors have started, move the left-hand stick up (toward the 12:00 position) and the drone should now blast off; possibly leaving a rapidly expanding cloud of dust if you launched in a dusty location.

Congratulations! You are 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 (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.

The photographic and videographic files produced by the Zino Pro+ will ***NOT*** be saved to your FPV device; if you forget to install a MicroSD memory chip into the drone prior to launch, you'll most certainly be SOL.

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

The batteries in the Hubsan H117S Zino Pro+ Ultra HD 4K Quadcopter AND in the radio are rechargeable; this is how to take care of that.

To charge the battery in the Hubsan H117S Zino Pro+ Ultra HD 4K Quadcopter, plug the AC end of the charger (the "wall wart") into any standard (in North America anyway) 110 to 130 volts AC 60Hz wall receptacle. Plug the small end of the cable into the left-hand receptacle in the balance charger.

Plug the balance charger into the large end of the battery with the ribbed terminals on it. A small white LED on the charger should start flashing and four small white LEDs on the end of the battery itself should come on.

When the LED on the charger changes from flashing to steady-on, the charge cycle is complete.

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

Fully charging the Hubsan H117S Zino Pro+ Ultra HD 4K Quadcopter' battery should give you approx 20 to 23 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 controls seem more sensitive than the controls of most other quadcopters that I've flown; I'd almost be tempted to call it "twitchy".

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!!!

The mobile phone holder on the radio can accomodate handsets up to 85.80mm (3.38") wide.

A small fan is inside the drone (which you may hear as a very soft whirring sound); this helps to keep the electronics (esp. the ESCs) cooler.

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).

Photograph of the balance charger adapter.

ZINO PRO+'S POWER UP SOUND
(in .WAV format; 570,098 bytes)
If you listen carefully, you may also be able to hear the small fan inside the Zino Pro+; this fan is there to help keep the electronics reasonably cool.

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 04-07-21 using money from my COVID-19 economic stimulus payment (I'd never have been able to afford it otherwise) and was received at 11:28am PDT on 04-13-21.

UPDATE: 04-27-21
The flight battery in my Zino Pro+ has already gone to pot; flight times now top out at ~eight minutes and the battery itself is incredibly difficult to extract from the drone after each flight.

I've logged just 20 flights; "methinks" that the battery has already started to swell; it should also not have gone down the tube so rapidly.

I am certain to practise good "battery hygiene" e.g. allowing it to cool to room temperature before charging, unplugging it from the charger promptly when the charge cycle is complete, and allowing the battery to cool to ambient temperature before launching the quadcopter again.

I've contacted Hubsan about this; all I can do now is hurry up and wait.
I do have another flight battery already on order from the hubsanus Ebay store (I'd ordered it before I knew that this battery was circling the drain), so I should not be grounded for too long here.

UPDATE: 04-29-21
The replacement flight battery arrived late yesterday morning, so I am back in the air!

UPDATE: 05-11-21
On a flight that I made yesterday, the gimbal petered out. The app reports Error0x2000 on the gimbal calibration screen but the gimbal fails to move as though it was not receiving power.

The camera's Y-axis (vertical tilt) adjustment capability has also gone to pot.

Since the gimbal has gone to pot but the drone still flies (and flies extremely well mind you!) and shoots photos & video, the, "

" icon 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.

Hubsan

R/C GPS quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera on a 3-axis gimbal

LED

12 (4 blue in remote, 1 white in charger, 3 red, 3 blue in drone, 1 red in camera)

N/A

Pushbutton on/off on drone and radio

Plastic

N/A

3.70V 2,600mAh (2.6Ah) Li:PO battery for remote; 11.40V 5,000mAh (5.0Ah) Li:PO battery for drone

Unknown/unable to measure

MICTURITION

Very light sprinkle-resistance at maximum

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FAR

¡¡¡EL CONEJITO DE PASCUA QUE SE CEPILLA LOS DIENTES CON UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAYÓ EN EL HIGIÉNICO, NO!!!

1x flight battery, 1x R/C battery, 8 X propeller blades, 8 X propeller screws, 1 X gimbal protector, 1 X std. screwdriver, 1 X AC adapter, 1 X balance charger connector for aircraft battery, 1 X USB charge cable 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

186.94mm L x 103.89mm W x 89.92mm D (7.36" L x 4.09" W x 3.54" D) (stowed); 304.55mm L x 252.22mm W x 89.9mm D (11.99" L x 9.93" T x 3.54" D) (deployed)

810g (28.57 oz; ) (incl. battery); 286g (10.09 oz)

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 H117S Zino Pro+ Ultra HD 4K Quadcopter * www.hubsan.com...

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