MJX X800 Hexacopter Review

Introduction

A nov­el­ty in the pop­u­lar X‑series of MJX mini hexa­copters. After the release of the well-known mod­els MJX X600 and X900, the devel­op­er offered the con­sumer a hex in a new size — MJX X800.

Peculiarities

• Anti-jam­ming 2.4GHz trans­mit­ter with built-in gyro sen­sor
• 6‑axis gyro­scope pro­vides exem­plary wind resis­tance and con­fi­dent flight
• Three flight modes
• Abil­i­ty to change the assign­ment of sticks on the con­trol equip­ment
• The abil­i­ty to con­trol the drone by tilt­ing the equip­ment
• 3D flips
• LED back­light
• Ready to fly out of the box

Equipment

• Hexa­copter MJX X800
• Li-poly­mer bat­tery 3.7V 750mAh
• Remote Con­trol
• USB charg­er cable
• 6 × spare rotors
• 2 × sup­ports
• Tool (for drone assem­bly)
• Instruc­tion (in Eng­lish and Chi­nese)

Specification

Brand:

MJX

Mod­el:

X800

Col­or:

White black

Sta­bi­liza­tion:

6 axis gyro­scope

Fre­quen­cy radio sig­nal:

2.4GHz

Quan­ti­ty chan­nels:

four

Food trans­mit­ter:

6 × AA 1.5V (sold sep­a­rate­ly)

Motors:

col­lec­tor type

Capac­i­ty bat­ter­ies:

3.7V 750mAh LiPo

Back­light:

LED

Time flight:

≈ 10 min­utes

Range flight:

up to 100 meters

Wednes­day for flights:

Indoor/Outdoor

Time charg­ing:

≈ 90 min­utes

Mate­r­i­al:

ABS plas­tic

Dimen­sions:

21×20×2.5cm

The weight:

≈ 70.5g

Lim­i­ta­tion on age:

14+

Appearance

The first thing I want to imme­di­ate­ly note about the MJX X800 is good plas­tic, you can imme­di­ate­ly see that the man­u­fac­tur­er did not sell too cheap. The design will please many. I was also impressed by the drone’s flight weight of only 72.5 grams, the hex is very light. The bat­tery of the X800 weighs only 18.7 grams, which results in a good per­for­mance advan­tage over oth­er analogs. In gen­er­al, no unnec­es­sary forms, every­thing is done in favor of maneu­ver­abil­i­ty and speed.

1. Flight time (with mixed pilot­ing style) ≈ 7 min­utes.
2. Bat­tery charge time ≈ 90 min.
3. Flight range: up to 150 meters.

*The devel­op­er offers the X800 in two col­ors “White” and “Black”.

Motors

The MJX X800 hexa­copter is equipped with 7×20mm brushed motors. Light weight cou­pled with 6 motors made it pos­si­ble to real­ize dis­tinc­tive dynam­ics and ver­ti­cal thrust at the out­put. In the “High” mode, the poten­tial is more than enough. Ready to car­ry a good HD cam­era (Mobius MINI or Fire­fly Q6) on board with­out notice­able loss in han­dling.

The main dis­ad­van­tage of col­lec­tor motors is a small work­ing resource, only about 30–40 full-fledged sor­ties, then a grad­ual dete­ri­o­ra­tion in flight per­for­mance. There­fore, when buy­ing such a hex, it will not be super­flu­ous to buy a spare set of motors.

Device

To get to the inter­nal ele­ments of the hexa­copter, the user will need a lot of time to unwind the body. The bear­ing screws on the dri­ve shafts of the motors are secure­ly fixed. To remove them, a tool is includ­ed in the kit, but it is extreme­ly unre­li­able to work with it, since care­less use can dam­age the drone itself.

It will take at least 30 min­utes to remove the 6 main rotors of the copter.

Open­ing the case, you can see a typ­i­cal assem­bly for this cat­e­go­ry of drones — the XN297 RF chip and STM32 micro­con­trollers on the ARM core. The motors are con­nect­ed via 1.25 micro­JST con­nec­tors.

Despite the fact that the motors are con­nect­ed to the hexa­copter via micro­JST con­nec­tors, the user will still need a sol­der­ing iron to replace them, as new motors are sold with­out these con­nec­tors.

Food

The hexa­copter is pow­ered by a 3.7V lithi­um poly­mer bat­tery with a capac­i­ty of 750mAh. Accord­ing to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion, it should pro­vide a flight time of up to 10 min­utes. In prac­tice, with a mixed style of pilot­ing, this time aver­aged 7 min­utes. It is charged from the USB charg­er that comes with the kit in 80–90 min­utes.

Remote Control

The MJX X800 hexa­copter comes with a clas­sic 4‑channel con­trol equip­ment oper­at­ing at a fre­quen­cy of 2.4GHz. Pow­er is sup­plied by 6 AA bat­ter­ies. Pro­vides a dis­tance of up to 150 meters in an inter­fer­ence-free area.

A dis­tinc­tive fea­ture of this equip­ment is the built-in gyro­scope. If you press the right stick and hold it until you hear a beep, the remote con­trol will enter the “GRAVITY SENSOR” (gyro­scope) mode. In this mode, the drone is con­trolled by tilt­ing the equip­ment itself. Tilt for­ward — the hex flies for­ward, tilt back — flies back­ward, and so on.

There are four but­tons on the front of the remote con­trol, the bot­tom pair is not active in prac­tice. The upper right but­ton is respon­si­ble for turn­ing the light on and off, the left, togeth­er with the right con­trol stick, acti­vates coups (flips). The cen­tral but­ton turns the drone on and off, and also serves to change flight modes:

• L — low (qui­et mode) suit­able for begin­ners
• M — medi­um (medi­um) for more expe­ri­enced pilots
• H — high (max­i­mum) for those who do not have enough medi­um mode

Assignment of buttons and switches

flight properties

The MJX X800 hexa­copter has proven to be the fastest hexa­copter in its series. Pro­tract­ed coups, from the side look impres­sive. The bright LED lights are per­fect for night fly­ing. We note a good radio range. It proved to be excel­lent when fly­ing out­doors in windy weath­er. For a drone with such capa­bil­i­ties, the flight dura­tion was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised.

Price

The MJX X800 hexa­copter is sold on var­i­ous inter­net trad­ing plat­forms for an aver­age price of $38.

conclusions

MJX X800 $38

Func­tion­al­i­ty

5/10

Flight time

6/10

flight qual­i­ties

5/10

com­pact­ness

5/10

Equip­ment

10/10

Reli­a­bil­i­ty

10/10

Price qual­i­ty

7/10

pros

• Exe­cu­tion qual­i­ty
• Last­ing
• dynam­ic
• Flip exe­cu­tion
• 6 axis gyro­scope
• Equip­ment tilt con­trol
• wind resis­tant
• 3 activ­i­ty modes
• Ready to fly out of the box
• Price

Minuses

• There is no cam­era
• Flips are only avail­able in High mode
• No head­less mode
• New motors come with­out 1.25 micro­JST con­nec­tors (must be sol­dered)

If you are look­ing for your first drone, then feel free to look at the X800. Good build qual­i­ty, durable, light, sta­ble, 3‑mode activ­i­ty. Ide­al for the novice pilot.

A photo

Pho­to with MJX X800 hexa­copter.

Video

Video with MJX X800 hexa­copter.