These are suppose to be new, right? Mine arrived and the box had been re-tapped shut. The controller looks like someone had thought it was ment to fly and not the helo. Skuff marks all over the battery compartment. Have to wait to get home to see if it works but good thing I didn’t buy an extra one as a gif because it would never pass a new.
Got mine the other day and couldn’t be more pleased.
I think in some ways it flies better than the Syma S107 - it’s .3 oz heavier with smaller blades but much more lifting torque - with the bigger drive gears it must have a hight RPM.
It doesn’t rise as fast, no doubt because of the gearing but it is very controllable.
No doubt because of the weight you get almost exactly one minute less flying time. (05:45 versus 06:45 min)
Because of IR conflict, I can’t fly the Syma and this simultaneously, that’s kind of a drag.
All and all, a good deal (at least for me)
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Instructions do say the green LED should flash, it doesn’t light up at all. It was left with the charger on all night and didn’t charge. The reason I know the tail rotor doesn’t work is because it arrived partially charged and would attempt to fly but didn’t have enough charge to leave the ground. Main rotors spin, tail rotor doesn’t. RMA sent.
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Tail rotor ONLY spins while moving forwards or backwards, it does NOT spin all the time or while turning. (this is how it is supposed to function so it can hover)
[QUOTE=guff, post:95, topic:302444]
Ordered one of these for my son and it arrived defective. The tail rotor does not spin and it will not charge. The green light on the controller doesn’t flash like the instructions say it should while charging. The red light on the controller flashes constantly as if the batteries are low even with 2 sets of new batteries. This one is a dud, hopefully more are available. Its really hard to tell when there is absolutely no information to contact the manufacturer somewhere in China!
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I have the exact same problem with my unit. Every detail you have described is exactly what I have experienced.
Got mine today. Seems like the li-poly battery in the copter itself just doesn’t have enough output to keep this little guy flying. It spins up really fast for the first 20 seconds or so then it will lose rpm’s and hover about an inch off the floor (if that.) I’ve drained the battery as far as possible and I’m hoping a full recharge will help out the situation. My on/off switch on the heli has a short in it so sometimes it will randomly decide it wants to turn itself on even with the switch clearly in the off position. The remote seems to only light solid red with a full application & release of the throttle, flashes slowly otherwise. The remote is constaltly tramsmitting whille charging though (looked at the ir transmitters flashing through the camera on my phone.) I noticed the red light flashing much faster (on the remote) after a few charges which I assume is the low battery warning described in the poor instuctions that came with it. On the up side, my 3 year old loves all the flashing lights! I just hope I didn’t spend my money on a desktop helicopter shaped light show 
got my fingers crossed hoping someone comes up with something cheap and easy to make these work as advertised.
edit: recharge didn’t help, I have a dud. Go figure.
After the comments here I decided to open one of my 3 to check out before gifting to my nephews. The controller did look a little dusty and scuffed, and the screw on the top rotor appeared loose. The lights on the remote behaved as described above, slow red blinking to start charge and the green light flashed just a few times while charging. I let it charge for maybe 10 minutes and gave it a whirl, worked beautifully! Hovered in place turned left and right and moved forward very controlled … Much better than those foam copters I got from woot a while back. I have not yet opened the real S107 to compare but I’m optimistic it will work as well or even better! I was even able to rebox it so hopefully they won’t even notice one went for a test drive.
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Instructions do say the green LED should flash, it doesn’t light up at all. It was left with the charger on all night and didn’t charge. The reason I know the tail rotor doesn’t work is because it arrived partially charged and would attempt to fly but didn’t have enough charge to leave the ground. Main rotors spin, tail rotor doesn’t. RMA sent.
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You evidently got different instructions than I did. From mine:
One of my copters came perfect – flies wonderfully. The other one was DOA – won’t even power up at all. Son of a gun.
I’m pretty impressed with this little copter so far, got in about 40 minutes of flight time yesterday and this morning. After trimming it out so the nose stays forward, it has been rock stable and very easy to fly.
With that said, anyone know where we can find some replacement main rotor blades for it? One of my coworkers enthusiastically found a ceiling tile with it, causing it to lose control and fall perfectly on it’s side, breaking one of the lower main rotor blades in half length ways. I have ordered some Syma S107 replacement rotor blades, hopefully they’ll work…if not they were only $6.
I had this for a week and it is very easy to control. But after 3 days of flying, all of a sudden the helicopter when taking off turns left and spirals down out of the air. Anyone know how to fix this?
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I had this for a week and it is very easy to control. But after 3 days of flying, all of a sudden the helicopter when taking off turns left and spirals down out of the air. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Adjust the trim.
My initial side by side comparison of this S107 and the Syma S107 is done. This version is heavier and seems very similar. The controllers look different, the Syma version seems to be better made (but both are made in china - is there anything made in the US anymore?) They seem to me to handle very much the same, the Syma just a little more precise. Now to see how long they last…
My three arrived in plenty of time for XMas and we just opened two of them. One had obvious signs of use on the controller (the up/down stick had been modified to not spring to the down position when released and there were scuffs all over it, the charging wire door is missing and the on/off button will not slide left/right with normal action, must place something small alongside the button and slide from the bottom).
I also bought a real S107 too so can compare. The real S107 is a much better unit, in all aspects. Workmanship, stability, quality of remote and comes with USB charging cord. The real one just seems more substantial and you feel much more in control even though flight characteristics are somewhat similar.
If I had it to do over again, I would spring the extra cash for the real deal. Time will tell which is more ruggedly built. I’ve been crash testing them, inadvertently, for awhile now.
Also, after a couple of years, was able to get in on my first bag of crap (why only able to purchase 1 unit of crap? I was saying to myself over and over, do NOT FORGET TO CHANGE QUANTITY TO 3…)
Luck all and happy holidays,
bub
Forgot to mention, do yourself a favor and put a little nose-weight in as both the real S107, although not quite as much as the fakes, and the fakes do not like to fly forwards as they are a bit out of balance. I have blu-tack and I placed about 1/3 size of normal marble and that worked wonders.
Just unpacked our heli and tried it out with our daughter, and we’ve run into a snag.
The lights work as described by others: red light flashes, even with brand new batteries; green light illuminates for only a few minutes, but I left it charging for the full 30.
When I tried to power up, I have to switch the frequency on the transmitter from “A” to another channel and then back, THEN the heli will respond. That’s when the problem started.
The heli starts to lift, then immediately veers off one side and crashes. No amount of adjusting the trim appears to work. (We’ve “held” the heli in the air by the tip of the tail, and tried all the adjustments, but it still will lurch to one side suddenly and crash.)
I did notice some things that the ANEMIC instructions don’t discuss. 1) The blades of both the upper and lower sets will “pivot” on their mounting screws. That is, they’re kind of “floppy.” Is this normal? 2) Also, the upper blades rock/tilt/swivel in conjunction with the uppermost piece (a spinning weight?). 3) Finally, the upper blades’ position on the rotor appear to vary as compared to the lower blades’. That is, sometimes all four blades “line up” and sometimes they are “crossed,” like the letter X. Are these pieces supposed to be fixed in place?
Any help or advice for those who have working units would be appreciated!
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Just unpacked our heli and tried it out with our daughter, and we’ve run into a snag.
The lights work as described by others: red light flashes, even with brand new batteries; green light illuminates for only a few minutes, but I left it charging for the full 30.
When I tried to power up, I have to switch the frequency on the transmitter from “A” to another channel and then back, THEN the heli will respond. That’s when the problem started.
The heli starts to lift, then immediately veers off one side and crashes. No amount of adjusting the trim appears to work. (We’ve “held” the heli in the air by the tip of the tail, and tried all the adjustments, but it still will lurch to one side suddenly and crash.)
I did notice some things that the ANEMIC instructions don’t discuss. 1) The blades of both the upper and lower sets will “pivot” on their mounting screws. That is, they’re kind of “floppy.” Is this normal? 2) Also, the upper blades rock/tilt/swivel in conjunction with the uppermost piece (a spinning weight?). 3) Finally, the upper blades’ position on the rotor appear to vary as compared to the lower blades’. That is, sometimes all four blades “line up” and sometimes they are “crossed,” like the letter X. Are these pieces supposed to be fixed in place?
Any help or advice for those who have working units would be appreciated!
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Everything you state is normal, with the exception of switching A,B,C and the veering. As far as the veering, can you see the two ‘rods’ that attach the top blade to the weight (bar above the top blade)? If one of those is broke or undone, that would cause veering. Also, others have reported and I noticed too on one of my fakes, the screw holding the top blade and weight to the shaft is not screwed in all the way. Be careful when screwing this in as these things are notorious for stripping screws, everything cheap has a problem with stripping screws and the smaller the screw, the more likely it can strip.
Anyways, check those two things and gl.
bub
Ordered two. One copter works great the other works but the remote is DOA. I can use the working remote to control one while the other is charging. Not optimal when my son wants to fly.
As for broken parts, both e-bay and Amazon have pretty much all the parts that break available for sale. You can get main rotors, motors and rear rotors as well as wall chargers and upgraded battery packs. The upgraded batteries are 240mAh. Almost double the current capacity.
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Ordered two. One copter works great the other works but the remote is DOA. I can use the working remote to control one while the other is charging. Not optimal when my son wants to fly.
As for broken parts, both e-bay and Amazon have pretty much all the parts that break available for sale. You can get main rotors, motors and rear rotors as well as wall chargers and upgraded battery packs. The upgraded batteries are 240mAh. Almost double the current capacity.
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I got two of these, one flew great out of the box, the other one will only spin in big circles. Adjust the trim but that does nothing. My daughters wanted to see them both fly together, so they tried and crashed them together. One of the main gears on the good one broke off. That did it for it. Looking on Ebay the gears for these and the Syma are different. No one has these type main gears listed. Totally different then the Syma’s. I think I will order a real one and try it out. When this one flew right, it was a great little copter!
Anybody tried the S107’s USB cable with this? The connector looks the same.
Yes, I’ve tried it but even though it appears to work, neither of the two fake S107’s I have will charge with it.
I recently got one of these helicopters as a gift. I cant seem to get the helicopter to charge. Do I need to have the helicopter on and the transmitter on? Do I have to have the transmitter on and the helicopter off? Do both have to be on? Ive been trying to figure it out for five hours and I cant seem to get this helicopter charging. The green light does not turn on. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for the help.
I ordered two of the USB chargers off of Ebay and they do work for my 2 helicopters.