(3:33) Those bongs look like sky scrapers compared to that tiny quad chopper. It's like a little Pyrex Gotham city. :oD Cool vid btw, I was going to buy that quad before until your vid informed us of it's tendency to spontaneously combust... If I'm going to buy anything that lights on fire, I would rather it be one of those fine hookahs you are selling in the background there. Again, thanks for the 411.
+Vence McAdams Yes they do. I'm getting an ammo box for transport, and a cinder block bunker for at home. I am now also using a power bar with a serge protector. (A good power bar will also shut off if it's getting too hot, but not if it's just the battery). In my situation it also melted my charging blocks outer case, so the power bar could have prevented this.
"The 100mah battery with the stock charger took roughly between 17-20 minutes to charge. I checking on it after 20 minutes and it was still charging I thought it was odd but didn't think too much" And here's the problem. I'm sorry it happened to you, and I'm truly glad nobody was hurt and there was no significant damage, but those USB cabled are completely unregulated, and as you learned, will happily pump juice into the battery till it explodes. The lesson here is not "Don't buy the $9 nano quad" but "don't leave a lipo battery plugged into an unregulated power source".
For these cheap toygrade-quads with USB connector where you can't trúst that it will cut off, when fulled and you literally are getting puffed-batteries-en'masse or a critical affaire like above.. a cheap usb meter with a mah-scaling is quite usefull. and also to check what batteries there are full and wich are empty. -.the ones with socalled OLED display starts around +4 bucks ($) shipped..I use the ones that goes under the name USB3 OLED meter to keep score in how much juice it had taken when on USB cord.. Works like intended and pretty on spot with the details when i compare it with thrue values and certainly better then nothing, if you infested with quadaddiction in the toygrade-segment and still havent invested in a pro-charger.. cheers.. Danelaw
It almost looks like you got a factory second. I have had one of these for about 8 months with no probs. Mine however came in a very elaborate plastic case, not just dumped into a cardboard box. Sorry to here it died.
thanks i was looking to buy my first quadcopter i was trying to be cheap to around 15 to 20 dollars but the battery was like 3 to 5 minutes did not like that and after looking a bunch i decided on buying Holy Stone f180c i cost me 60 dollars and it got a 720p and it fast and battery life 7 to 10 min but if i use it to take video is around 5 min
+Joshtian Thats what I thought but it doesn't. I got a new battery and micro losi connectors for it and tried. It flies for about 5-10 seconds then one motor stops, usually making it drop from the air. All the other motors rev up and spin on maximum. Shutting the remote off dsoesn't stop it, I need to unplug it. I am pretty sure something on the control board it toast.
(3:33) Those bongs look like sky scrapers compared to that tiny quad chopper. It's like a little Pyrex Gotham city. :oD
Cool vid btw, I was going to buy that quad before until your vid informed us of it's tendency to spontaneously combust... If I'm going to buy anything that lights on fire, I would rather it be one of those fine hookahs you are selling in the background there. Again, thanks for the 411.
So sorry to see that. But best review ever, very fair judgement.
thank you for this video !
Thanks for the review. This can, and does happen with other models too. I think they make bags for safe charging. I think I need one!
+Vence McAdams Yes they do. I'm getting an ammo box for transport, and a cinder block bunker for at home. I am now also using a power bar with a serge protector. (A good power bar will also shut off if it's getting too hot, but not if it's just the battery). In my situation it also melted my charging blocks outer case, so the power bar could have prevented this.
Cool bong shop.
"The 100mah battery with the stock charger took roughly between 17-20 minutes to charge. I checking on it after 20 minutes and it was still charging I thought it was odd but didn't think too much"
And here's the problem. I'm sorry it happened to you, and I'm truly glad nobody was hurt and there was no significant damage, but those USB cabled are completely unregulated, and as you learned, will happily pump juice into the battery till it explodes. The lesson here is not "Don't buy the $9 nano quad" but "don't leave a lipo battery plugged into an unregulated power source".
For these cheap toygrade-quads with USB connector where you can't trúst that it will cut off, when fulled and you literally are getting puffed-batteries-en'masse or a critical affaire like above.. a cheap usb meter with a mah-scaling is quite usefull. and also to check what batteries there are full and wich are empty. -.the ones with socalled OLED display starts around +4 bucks ($) shipped..I use the ones that goes under the name USB3 OLED meter to keep score in how much juice it had taken when on USB cord.. Works like intended and pretty on spot with the details when i compare it with thrue values and certainly better then nothing, if you infested with quadaddiction in the toygrade-segment and still havent invested in a pro-charger.. cheers.. Danelaw
It almost looks like you got a factory second. I have had one of these for about 8 months with no probs. Mine however came in a very elaborate plastic case, not just dumped into a cardboard box. Sorry to here it died.
thanks i was looking to buy my first quadcopter i was trying to be cheap to around 15 to 20 dollars but the battery was like 3 to 5 minutes did not like that and after looking a bunch i decided on buying Holy Stone f180c i cost me 60 dollars and it got a 720p
and it fast and battery life 7 to 10 min but if i use it to take video is around 5 min
It can happen. I'm sure the quad works fine.
+Joshtian Thats what I thought but it doesn't. I got a new battery and micro losi connectors for it and tried. It flies for about 5-10 seconds then one motor stops, usually making it drop from the air. All the other motors rev up and spin on maximum. Shutting the remote off dsoesn't stop it, I need to unplug it. I am pretty sure something on the control board it toast.
I just got mine yesterday I hope that doesn't happen to mine but I'm sorry that happened to yours
It might have been because you charged it all night the battery over heats and combust
lol he works in a bong smoke shop
Can you sell me your usb charging cord??, mine broke the 2nd time I plugged it in to the copter.
+AmericanBulldogRocky LOL, I would if I could, but mine melted the connector.
the ls115 is better. it's has auto of
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