Rav
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If you are looking for a cheap and reliable pocket drone for your kids (Or Yourself ) for Christmas look no further. The FQ777-127 is a champion, micro,nano,mini what ever you want to call it little flyer. I brought 2 for review and let my kids loose for a few weeks so here are the results
Specs:
To give this Quad Copter a full work out I gave 2 of them to my boys for a week aged 7 and 11 and told the to not hold back and see what they could do.
They never used the prop protectors because that's just not cool and you get a little longer flight times. I was surprised that the props lasted to long the,bashed them into walls, floors, roads, trees, cars, people, dogs,and a tennis racket but more on that later.
This little quad copter drone is very well built for its size and quite cheap about $17 USA prices or around $23 AUS prices.
The blades are made out of a very flexible plastic that can take a lot of abuse. Never had a blade break but have some bent ones which didn't seem to affect flight stability much. Can be easily re bent into shape.
If you have a lot of hair on your carpets I did find that the props would need regular cleaning this was evident when the drone would start to wobble or drift.
Range was very good and you would loose sight of the pocket drone before you would loose signal. Multiple quad copters can fly at once, but you will need to bind each quad when turning on.
Binding Procedure:
The transmitter comes standard on mode 2 but it can be converted to a mode 1 controller if you prefer. Full instructions are in the box.
The transmitter has some pare parts in the back as well as the charging cable.
A USB charging cable is also supplied which I prefer to use to save the remote batteries which are 4 AA.
The remote special feature is the ability to be able to have the quadcopter stored in the front of the transmitter great to protect the quad and transport.
I have a phone battery pack the I take with me me and with the supplied USB charger its hand to quickly charge up the mini quads.
Flying this quad was just pure fun, handles well for a beginner and can be set up to headless mode for 3d stunts like flips.
There was no interference even with 3 quads being flown in the same area, 2 pocket drones and 1 SK450.
Breakdown:
So after 2 weeks and over over 50 flights we had a failure, One of the quad copters would power its self up with the on off switch in the closed position.
Apparently one of the neighbour kids decided to hit the quad copter out of the air with a tennis racket (Not what the quad is designed for).
Closer inspection revealed that the 3.7v lipo battery had been ruptured and jell had come out coating the power board with it, a quick clean up and a new battery fixed the problem so it is tough.
I hope you enjoy them as much as we have got a few more coming for friends and family.
For more information click here
Specs:
- FQ777-124 Pocket Drone 4CH 6Axis Gyro Quadcopter One Key Switch Controller USB Charger RTF
- Product Material: Modified nylon,ABS,transparent PS + K-resin
- Channel: 4CH
- Gyro: 6 Axis
- Remote Frequency: 2.4G
- Flight Duration: about 4'40" / 5'10"(without landing gear and protector)
- Flight weight: 13g
- Remote Control Distance: 50 meters
- Recharging Time: 20mins
- Battery For Quadcopter: 3.7V 100 mAh/25C(included)
- Battery For Transmitter: 4 x AA Battery (not included)
- Color: Black/White/Red/Blue
- Quadcopter Size: 7x7x2.7cm
- Controller Size: 14x8.5x4.1cm
- Color Box Size:16x10x6cm
- Package Weight: 175g
To give this Quad Copter a full work out I gave 2 of them to my boys for a week aged 7 and 11 and told the to not hold back and see what they could do.
They never used the prop protectors because that's just not cool and you get a little longer flight times. I was surprised that the props lasted to long the,bashed them into walls, floors, roads, trees, cars, people, dogs,and a tennis racket but more on that later.
This little quad copter drone is very well built for its size and quite cheap about $17 USA prices or around $23 AUS prices.
The blades are made out of a very flexible plastic that can take a lot of abuse. Never had a blade break but have some bent ones which didn't seem to affect flight stability much. Can be easily re bent into shape.
If you have a lot of hair on your carpets I did find that the props would need regular cleaning this was evident when the drone would start to wobble or drift.
Range was very good and you would loose sight of the pocket drone before you would loose signal. Multiple quad copters can fly at once, but you will need to bind each quad when turning on.
Binding Procedure:
- Turn on quad copter, (strange back to front)
- Turn on transmitter with throttle on low position.
- Move throttle stick to high then to low will beep and all done.
The transmitter comes standard on mode 2 but it can be converted to a mode 1 controller if you prefer. Full instructions are in the box.
The transmitter has some pare parts in the back as well as the charging cable.
A USB charging cable is also supplied which I prefer to use to save the remote batteries which are 4 AA.
The remote special feature is the ability to be able to have the quadcopter stored in the front of the transmitter great to protect the quad and transport.
I have a phone battery pack the I take with me me and with the supplied USB charger its hand to quickly charge up the mini quads.
Flying this quad was just pure fun, handles well for a beginner and can be set up to headless mode for 3d stunts like flips.
There was no interference even with 3 quads being flown in the same area, 2 pocket drones and 1 SK450.
Breakdown:
So after 2 weeks and over over 50 flights we had a failure, One of the quad copters would power its self up with the on off switch in the closed position.
Apparently one of the neighbour kids decided to hit the quad copter out of the air with a tennis racket (Not what the quad is designed for).
Closer inspection revealed that the 3.7v lipo battery had been ruptured and jell had come out coating the power board with it, a quick clean up and a new battery fixed the problem so it is tough.
I hope you enjoy them as much as we have got a few more coming for friends and family.
For more information click here