JJRC H26W Quadcopter Review

Introduction

One of the most pop­u­lar quad­copter mod­els from JJRC Toy today. The JJRC H26W quad­copter real­ly deserves atten­tion as the first drone.

Peculiarities

Main Fea­tures of JJRC H26W Quad­copter

• 6 axis gyro­scope
• Con­trol at 2.4GHz
• 360 degree flips
• Return the drone to the remote con­trol with one but­ton
• head­less mode
• LED back­light
• Max. flight time 7 min
• Max. FPV removal dis­tance 100m

Equipment

• Quad­copter JJRC H26W
• Bat­tery 7.4V 1200mAh LiPo
• Trans­mit­ter 2.4GHz 4‑channel (pow­ered by 4 × “AA” not sup­plied)
• USB charg­er
• VGA Wi-Fi cam­era on 2‑axis elec­tric gim­bal
• 4 × load-bear­ing mul­ti­di­rec­tion­al pro­pellers
• 2 × spare mul­ti­di­rec­tion­al rotors
• 4 × rotor pro­tec­tion
• 2 × land­ing legs
• fas­ten­ers
• Screw­driv­er
• Instruc­tion

Specification

Brand:

JJRC

Mod­el:

H26W

Col­or:

white/green

Sta­bi­liza­tion:

6 axis gyro­scope

Cam­era:

VGA Wi-Fi cam­era on 2‑axis elec­tric gim­bal

Stor­age device:

smart­phone resources

Radio fre­quen­cy:

2.4GHz

Num­ber of chan­nels:

four

Trans­mit­ter Pow­er:

4 × AA 1.5V

Motors:

col­lec­tor type

Bat­tery capac­i­ty:

7.4V 1200mAh LiPo

Back­light:

LED

Flight time:

≈ 6–7 min­utes

FPV Flight Range:

up to 100 meters

Fly­ing envi­ron­ment:

out­doors

Charg­ing time:

≈ 60 min­utes

Mate­r­i­al:

ABS plas­tic

Dimen­sions:

450×450mm.

The weight:

≈ 112gr.

Lim­i­ta­tion on age:

14+

Appearance

Motors

On the JJRC H26W quad­copter, there are col­lec­tor-type motors with torque trans­mis­sion through the gear. The thrust mar­gin is huge, it eas­i­ly pulls almost any action cam­era.

flight properties

Quad­copter JJRC H26W showed good dynam­ics for its size, wind-resis­tant, we note the work of a 6‑axis gyro­scope. Man­age­ment intu­itive, did not have to get used to. Flips, return to the trans­mit­ter, head­less mode with­out com­plaints, begin­ners will appre­ci­ate the mod­el.

Camera

On board the JJRC H26W quadro­copter, a VGA Wi-Fi cam­era is installed on a 2‑axis el. sus­pen­sion. The elec­tric gim­bal con­trols the cam­era hor­i­zon­tal­ly and ver­ti­cal­ly using the but­tons on the remote con­trol. The pic­ture qual­i­ty is below aver­age. You should not use its capa­bil­i­ties for panoram­ic shots.

FPV

The flight from the first per­son for this mod­el is imple­ment­ed via Wi-Fi at a fre­quen­cy of 2.4GHz. Real-time image out­put is car­ried out through the Wi-Fi UFO mobile appli­ca­tion (for IOS / Android), before launch­ing which you need to con­nect to the camera’s Wi-Fi video link (Wi-Fi UFO-XXXXXX; where X are numer­ic and alpha­bet­ic char­ac­ters, which will be dif­fer­ent for each con­nec­tion). In prac­tice, the dis­tance FPV removal was 30 — 60 meters, then the neg­a­tive impact of the delay nul­li­fies fur­ther pilot­ing in first per­son mode.

If nec­es­sary, and soon­er or lat­er the pilot of the JJRC H26W will have it, it will be pos­si­ble to pur­chase any of the cur­rent­ly avail­able action cam­eras.

When the stan­dard cam­era is turned off, the flight time increas­es by an aver­age of one minute. Most like­ly, the Wi-Fi trans­mit­ter is not of the best qual­i­ty, like the cam­era itself.

Battery

The JJRC H26W quad­copter comes with a stan­dard LiPo bat­tery with quite opti­mal char­ac­ter­is­tics of 7.4V 1200 mAh. With the cam­era turned on, it pro­vides a flight of 6–7 min­utes. On aver­age, it takes about an hour to charge the bat­tery.

In prac­tice, 6–7 min­utes is extreme­ly short, so when buy­ing a quad­copter, it is advis­able to pur­chase at least two addi­tion­al bat­ter­ies.

Remote Control

The JJRC H26W quad­copter comes with a clas­sic 4‑channel remote con­trol oper­at­ing at a fre­quen­cy of 2.4GHz. In prac­tice, he showed con­fi­dent recep­tion (in a metrop­o­lis) — up to 80 meters, (in field con­di­tions) — up to 100 meters. Pow­ered by 4 “AA” bat­ter­ies.

Price

At the moment, the price for the JJRC H26W quad­copter is $80.

*var­i­ous pack­ag­ing options

Conclusion

JJRC H26W $80

Func­tion­al­i­ty

9/10

Flight time

5/10

flight qual­i­ties

8/10

com­pact­ness

2/10

Equip­ment

5/10

Reli­a­bil­i­ty

8/10

Price qual­i­ty

7/10

pros

• Design
• Dimen­sions (impres­sive)
• Thrust reserve
• Con­trol
• FPV/Headless mode/Led back­light
• Cam­era sus­pen­sion allows remote con­trol of its posi­tion
• Con­trol at 2.4GHz
• 6 axis gyro­scope
• Flips 360º
• Return home from the but­ton on the con­trol equip­ment

Minuses

• Flight time
• Cam­era (cap­ture qual­i­ty)
• Noisy

The JJRC H26W quadro­copter right­ful­ly occu­pies a lead­ing posi­tion in var­i­ous rat­ings. If you do not take into account the cam­era, then the drone ful­ly jus­ti­fies its means. Per­fect as the first drone with an empha­sis on shoot­ing. It is worth repeat­ing once again that when retro­fitting a quadric with a good cam­era, the time to get pos­i­tive emo­tions from the pur­chase will increase sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

A photo

Pho­to of JJRC H26W quad­copter.

Video

Video with JJRC H26W quad­copter.