Read First Before Buy Heli Max 1SQ Ready To Fly QuadCopter HMXE0834
If this type of R/C device intrigues you and you wonder whether you should get the Heli-Max or the standard helicopter, by all means, get this, the Heli-Max.
I started with co-axial heli's, then moved onto the Blade MSR. The Blade was great and got me hooked, but it is so prone to breakage, it has never been the same after the first dozen or so flights. After many replacement parts including a $60 5-1 receiver, it worked for about a day and now the tail motor is going out. Despite all this, I bought a Blade MSR X, the next gen micro. Once again, first flights were great, but after a few days, the performance started to deteriorate. The MSR X is also more difficult to fly over the MSR, and I still haven't perfected either by a long shot.
Introduce the Heli-Max. Cheaper than the Blade products, I had my doubts but was coerced by my daughter to purchase. Now this is a tiny machine, which is perfect for indoor use. From my previous experience with the Blade heli's, I was an immediate pro at the Heli-Max. It is stable beyond belief, and it's simple design makes it much more durable than the relatively complicated heli's. Surprisingly, the Heli-Max preforms very well outdoors in light winds too. It is just an amazing little machine that is giving me the satisfaction I wanted from the heli's without any of the disappointments.
BalasHapusIf this type of R/C device intrigues you and you wonder whether you should get the Heli-Max or the standard helicopter, by all means, get this, the Heli-Max.
BalasHapusI started with co-axial heli's, then moved onto the Blade MSR. The Blade was great and got me hooked, but it is so prone to breakage, it has never been the same after the first dozen or so flights. After many replacement parts including a $60 5-1 receiver, it worked for about a day and now the tail motor is going out. Despite all this, I bought a Blade MSR X, the next gen micro. Once again, first flights were great, but after a few days, the performance started to deteriorate. The MSR X is also more difficult to fly over the MSR, and I still haven't perfected either by a long shot.
Introduce the Heli-Max. Cheaper than the Blade products, I had my doubts but was coerced by my daughter to purchase. Now this is a tiny machine, which is perfect for indoor use. From my previous experience with the Blade heli's, I was an immediate pro at the Heli-Max. It is stable beyond belief, and it's simple design makes it much more durable than the relatively complicated heli's. Surprisingly, the Heli-Max preforms very well outdoors in light winds too. It is just an amazing little machine that is giving me the satisfaction I wanted from the heli's without any of the disappointments.
I love and injoy my new toy my friends all love it and keep taking mine home so I have had to reorder 3 times
BalasHapusI picked this up at a local hobby shop, but was so impressed I decided to write a review on Amazon. I've been flying a Blade MCX2 for over a year, and this kicks it's butt. The gyro in this is impressive. I can't fly my MCX2 in the living room with the ceiling fan on, too much breeze. The 1 SQ doesn't even notice the breeze, I can't wait to fly it outside now. Of courses crashes are expected while learning to fly a quad. This thing would be hard to break from my experience so far. My living room has a vaulted ceiling about 12 feet high. My 1 SQ has fallen from 10 feet onto my hardwood floor numerous times without a scratch.
BalasHapusPick up an extra battery or two, they're less than $7. Flight time is only 6 or 7 minutes so you'll need them to keep flying.
Really happy with the speed in which I got the copter and the overall product is great. I love flying this thing. It's so stable it's kinda weird. The technology that encompasses this quadcopter is like nothing else. Then there's the fact that it is really durable.
BalasHapusThis will frustrate you fast if you're new to true RCA flying as it flies just like a real heli. It stabilizes itself, but does not hover automatically.
BalasHapusLearning to make it stay put will take you a couple hours at the most, but then things get fun fast as it has the same degree of control as far more expensive helis. Very maneuverable, durable, and well built for such a cheap toy.
Anyone can fly this given enough practice. If you can fly this, you can fly a real RC helicopter. Perfect entry-level quad, but I don't recommend it for kids who get frustrated easily.
This is the first Quad I have had a chance to fly. and it is so much fun to fly. I want to get one for my grandson. They are so east to fly but the are just a blast. The price to me is worth it. Give it a try. You wont go wrong. Promise.
BalasHapusDurable, agile, very stable, easy to setup, ready to fly out of the box, very cheap, very capable both indoor and outdoor in moderate or low wind.
BalasHapusThis may not be a best first toy helicopter. You have control over the fairly traditional helicopter flight model controls: rudder, collective, and cylic. First time buyers may want to stick with a toy with a more basic flight model. Don't expect to pick this thing up and fly pirouettes around your grandmother's head in the first few flights unless you really want to be disowned.
However, it does have a great 3D gyro and it keeps the copter very heading stable. If you just hover with collective and cyclic, the nose does a very good job of staying on the same heading, for instance. Rudder controls yield a clean stop-to-heading when input is removed as well. Very quick and crisp controls.
I do think there are limits, ex. I do not believe the motors can spin backwards to simulate negative collective pitch, so this copter will not hover upside down. I could be wrong, and maybe there is some secret mode, and perhaps it is possible to "throw" it over and do a temporary roll, but a quick assessment of the electronics looks like current flow can only flow in one direction to the motors.
Very excellent power and agility. If you punch it straight up from a standstill I imagine it would hit an indoor ceiling in less than 2 seconds, maybe 1 second. It SCOOTS. It will spin (rudder) 360 very quickly with just the standard sensivity of 38. You can really hear the motors spin on input or gyro correction.
First few flights took a lot of practice and I'm still learning how to control all three inputs at once for controlled flight, but the ability to knock the senstivity down (read your instructions!) is great. I set it down to the suggested level 30 and it is great in doors.
I've done little testing outdoors, but for such a tiny, lightweight, and cheap helicopter it handles it like a champ. Most of my research also shows it has very good outdoor handling. Other copters this size generally do not fair as well.
Protip: pick up at least one extra charger and at least two extra batteries. Flight time is 5-10 minutes. Charging takes at least 20, sometimes more depending on your charger. Use a 2.1 amp USB charger if you have one (like a cell phone or tablet charger). One battery in the copter, two or three charging and you can almost keep the thing in flight constantly besides battery changes.
One las trick, the motors seem to love to try to slide out the bottom after crashing. Push up on them so the rotors aren't touching the body. Ironically, the gyro is so good that you can have one rotor almost completely stuck and it will still fly, albeit noticeably hampered.
As another review stated, make sure to kill power before you crash and this thing seems almost indestructible. I've run mine into all sorts of things with nothing but a small crack in the cover piece, and a few tiny nicks in the blades (for which the gyros correct anyway).
Only big downside is it has virtually no carrying capacity. You'll be challenged to fit any sort of camera on this thing. You'd be lucky for it to pick up just the camera mount. You'll probably need something bigger to fit a special low weight camera, and something bigger yet if you want to strap your GoPro or even a compact consumer digicam on it. I have not formally tested its lifting capacity, but I'd be surprised if it were more than a dozen grams or so (2-3 nickels).
Absolute A+ product. An absolute blast. Versatile. Cheap. Durable.
I've been very pleased with the 1SQ. It's easy to fly and has held up very well through many crashes.
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