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SYMA S031G
R/C COAXIAL HELICOPTER (NEW VERSION w/ Li:POLY BATTERY)

Syma S031G R/C Coaxial Helicopter (with Li:Poly battery), retail $45.53 (www.amazon.com...)
Manufactured by Syma Toys (www.symatoys.com)
Last updated 09-19-14

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a bunch of flashing LEDs on the sides of its fuselage and along the length of its tail boom, so what the hey.

This is only the twelfth R/C helicopter to have graced these pages (out of at least a thousand other products) over the last eleven-plus years this website has been online, so please play nice and don't bite my head off to tell me that I forgot some important detail.

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. I was also attracted to three things that this heli has that many others don't...

1: It's much larger than any of the "micro" helis I have flown before -- I specifically wanted a larger model.
2: It has all kinds of colorful blinking lights 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 "" ) and tail boom.
3: It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.

This is a fairly large, lightweight (as a helicopter in a metal & plastic body goes), easy-to-fly 3.5-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) helicoper. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.

It has a coaxial design to minimise those "out-of-control" moments, and make flying possible even with a busted tail rotor (though if the tail rotor is completely gone, moving forward & backward will no longer be possible).
"Coaxial" in this case means that it has two sets of main rotor blades; one set of blades spins in the opposite direction as the other. Doing things this way virtually eliminates that wild, out-of-control spinning that plagues many other non-coaxial R/C helicopters and makes this one exceptionally easy to fly even for beginner pilots!!! It also has a gyroscope (very commonly abbreviated to just "gyro") in it that makes this heli exceptionally stable and lets slow-speed maneuvers and hovering be accomplished much more easily than it would be in R/C helis without a gyro.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This toy (some people might call it something other than a "toy") is remarkably easy to use for a helicopter...here's how to get it off the ground:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cat would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).

Secondly (and you only need to do this one time): Screw the furnished antenna into the receptacle for it on the front of the remote control ("front", as the joysticks face upward). Screw it in finger-tight only; please do not use tools of any type here. Then pull up on it to extend it.

1: Place the heli on the ground so that the tail faces you. On the right side of the Coaxial Helicopter's body (on the metal part just below and behind the cockpit), there's a fairly sizeable on/off switch.
Slide this switch to the "on" position.
A series of red, yellow, yellow-green, pure green, and blue lights along the sides of the fuselage and on the underside of the tail rotor should come on and immediately start sequencing (in a "chaser" pattern). A video farther down this web pages shows this.

Move several feet away from the helicopter (at least six feet away).

2: On the remote control, turn the "on/off" switch to the "on" position.

3: The yellow-green light on the remote will now come on and start blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward and then let it go back. This "arms" the helicopter. If you did this correctly, that yellow-green light will go from blinking to steady-on.

4: Gently push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward a second time -- but do so more gingerly this time so that the helicopter doesn't just blast away -- it has a good deal of thrust, so the possibility of it getting away in this manner does exist.

5: The Coaxial Helicopter should now lift off the ground. Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

Reading this web page (about another R/C helicopter) will give you a good idea of the process of flying it.
For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.

There is a button on the lower right face of the remote: it is to change modes from "beginner" to "master hand" (this is how the furnished instructional materials refer to them -- the legend printed under the button itself reads "TAIL MOTOR SPEED SWITCH").
In "beginner" mode, the tail rotor speed is limited; "master hand" mode causes the tail rotor to increase in speed -- thus allowing the heli to fly forward and backward more quickly. This allows beginner pilots to not crash the model at high speeds, while allowing the more experienced pilot the ability to fly faster if they really "feel the need for speed".

Turn the Coaxial Helicopter and remote control off when finished using them.
Same switches as before, but slide them in the opposite direction this time.

The battery in the Coaxial Helicopter itself is rechargeable and is not designed to be changed; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, unscrew & remove the phillips screw from the battery door on the underside of the unit, using a small phillips screwdriver (the #0 from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers worked well here). Set the screw aside.

Remove the battery door, carry it to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down those stairs into the basement crawling with thousands of hungry piss ants that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable so that they drag it to the queen, who also finds it distasteful so she piddles on it and instructs the worker ants to do the same...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the four used AA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert four new AA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, place the battery door back on, and screw the screw back in.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry piss ants with full bladders now?

To charge the battery in the Coaxial Helicopter, take the thin cord that's attached to the "wall wart" charger, and plug the small end into the charging box.

Plug the "wall wart" into any standard (in north America anyway) 110 volts to 130 volts AC 60Hz two- or three-slot household receptacle (or "outlet" or even "wall socket" if you prefer).

(Please be certain that the Coaxial Helicopter is turned off at this point).
You'll see a cord with three wires and a white connector on its end. Plug this one into the receptacle for it on the charger.

When the charge cycle is in progress, the yellow-green LED on the charger will turn on and operate steadily (e.g it should not blink). When the charge cycle is complete, this LED should turn off.

You may then safely unplug the helicopter from the charger, and unplug the "wall wart" from the AC receptacle.

Charging is advertised to take between 160 and 170 minutes when the battery in the helicopter is essentially fully discharged (flat).

Fully charging the Coaxial Helicopter's battery should give you 6 to 8 minutes of flying time.

This RC helicopter 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 analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.

So this section of the helicopter's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

Stated range of the radio in the Tx (RC hobby talk for "transmitter") is 50 meters (~150 feet); frequency is stated as 27MHz.

The unit has a 3.5-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.

This heli is rather large and powerful; it could be termed a "cat slicer" or even a "cat killer" if it were flown indoors in a pet-owning household.

Photograph of its remote control.

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the red LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage.

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the red LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 625nm and 635nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 629.670nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/s0312r.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the yellow LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage.

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the yellow LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 585nm and 590nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 587.180nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/s0312y.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the yellowish-green LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage.

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the yellowish-green LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 565nm and 575nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 571.290nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/s0312yg.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the green LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage.

Spectrographic analysis of the one of the green LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 515nm and 535 nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 526.850nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/s0312g.txt

Spectrographic analysis of one of the blue LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage.

Spectrographic analysis of one of the blue LEDs in the side of the heli's fuselage; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 445nm and 455nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 451.180nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/s0312b.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green LED in the Tx (remote).

Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green LED in the Tx (remote); spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 550nm and 570nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 556.660nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/s0312ryg.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

This brief vid. is only to show the nice colorful and gay* lights on the Syma S031G R/C Coaxial Helicopter (with Li:Poly battery)'s fuselage and tail boom.

O boy, blinking lights!
So thrilling!!
So pulse-racing!!!
Actually, it kinda "maiks" "ewe" "wontt" "tu" "kik" "ovorr" "won" "uv" "thoz" "Penile-Whear®" "liggecher-rezistent" "prizen" "commbies" "ahnd" "thenn" "pruhseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "uhn "olde" "orr" "uzed" "pusche" "brume" doesn't it? ;-)

This video is 59.1989543560 megabytes (59,486,602 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than two hundred ninety six minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.

ALL OF THE OTHER FLIGHT VIDEOS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS WEB PAGE WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Amazon.com on 06-08-14 (or "2014 08 Jun." or even "June 08, Twenty Stick-Crossed-Broken-Sticks" if you prefer), and was received at 11:12am PDT on 06-14-14.

* 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 "

.

* Gay = bright & lively, ***NOT*** homosexual.

The AC charger is labelled to have an input of 100 volts to 240 volts 50 or 60Hz, an output of DC +10.0 volts, and is able to sink 800mA.

UPDATE: 09-19-14
The gay little (or, "not-so-little") plastic & metal heli was destroyed after a fall from ~200 feet.

.
Therefore, I must append the dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon to its listings on this website to denote that the product has failed or has become destroyed.

Here's a photograph showing the carnage (grab a box of Cleanax or other nasal tissue if depictions of helicopter death cause you great sadness):

Syma

Medium-sized ("400-size") R/C helicopter

LED

17 (1 yellow-green in R/C, 2 in charger, 15 in helicopter itself)

N/A

Slide switch on/off on both R/C and helicopter

Plastic & metal

N/A

4x AA cells for R/C; 800mAh 9.60V Li:PO (iron-core lithium ploymer) battery in helicopter

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance only

¡¡¡UN FANTASMA ESPANTOSO GRANDE QUE TOMA UNA MIERDA ENORME EN UNA CESTA DE PAPEL USADO PLÁSTICA, NO!!!

Charger, tail rotor blade, phillips screwdriver

24" L x 18" Rotor diameter

437.20g (15.4217 oz.)

China

Unknown/not stated

Rating will not be assigned until after the Syma S031G heli's maiden flights, which are tentatively scheduled to occur on the morning of 06-18-14.

Syma S031G R/C Coaxial Helicopter (with Li:Poly battery) * www.amazon.com...

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