MJX X900 Hexacopter Review

Introduction

It is right­ful­ly called one of the best small hexa­copters in the world in terms of price-qual­i­ty ratio. MJX X900 is the small­est broth­er in the “X” series from the man­u­fac­tur­er MJX R / C Tech­nic.

Peculiarities

• Anti-jam­ming 2.4GHz trans­mit­ter with built-in gyro sen­sor
• 6‑axis gyro­scope for 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

*the devel­op­er offers X900 in two col­ors.

Equipment

• Hexa­copter MJX X900
• Li-poly­mer bat­tery 1S 180mAh
• 2.4GHz remote con­trol with built-in G‑sensor (pow­ered by 6 AA bat­ter­ies, bat­ter­ies not includ­ed)
• USB cable (for bat­tery charg­ing)
• 6 × spare rotors
• Instruc­tion (in Eng­lish)

There is no pro­tec­tion for the main rotors in the kit, since the weight of the drone is already at the lim­it (22.6 g).

Appearance

Review

To imag­ine the true dimen­sions of the drone, let’s com­pare the small­est quad­copter V676 and X900, as well as com­pare the X900 and X800 drones. Such dimen­sions and shape will have a pos­i­tive effect on the flight char­ac­ter­is­tics of the MJX X900.

Disassembly

Inside the pop­u­lar high-speed sin­gle-chip trans­ceiv­er, the wire­less chip is XN297 2.4G RF.

battery

The X900 hexa­copter is equipped with a built-in sin­gle-cell bat­tery with a capac­i­ty of 180 mAh. In prac­tice, it pro­vides a flight time of no more than 3–4 min­utes (with the declared 5 min­utes), which is gen­er­al­ly nor­mal for this UAV niche. Charges with the includ­ed USB charg­er. Charg­ing time from a PC (lap­top) lasts 30–40 min­utes. The end of charg­ing will be indi­cat­ed by a red LED on the USB charg­er plug.

The built-in bat­tery of the hexa can be charged both from the USB port of a PC (Note­book) and from the pow­er sup­ply of the X900 con­trol equip­ment. To do this, you need to insert the USB charg­ing plug into the USB port on the equip­ment, and insert the oth­er end into the con­nec­tor on the back of the hexa­copter above the pow­er but­ton. The charg­ing time in this way lasts an aver­age of 50 min­utes.

Motors

The MJX X900 hexa­copter is equipped with clas­sic 6 × 12mm brushed motors for bud­get drones. At max­i­mum thrust, there is more than enough thrust, the hex eas­i­ly per­forms pro­grammed flips and active­ly responds to the move­ment of the gas stick.

• To replace the motors, you will need a sol­der­ing iron, we attribute this fact to the minus­es.
• The aver­age and max­i­mum modes are not much dif­fer­ent from each oth­er and are more suit­able for fly­ing out­doors!

Remote Control

The MJX x900 hexa­copter is equipped with quite con­ve­nient con­trol equip­ment with a built-in G‑sensor oper­at­ing at a fre­quen­cy of 2.4GHz. Pro­vides a dis­tance of up to 100 meters in an inter­fer­ence-free area. For a metrop­o­lis, this dis­tance is reduced to 50 meters. Pow­er is sup­plied from 6 × AA (pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly).

The equip­ment sup­ports two con­trol modes. Clas­si­cal­ly with sticks and thanks to the built-in gyro sen­sor, remote con­trol tilts.

Assignment of buttons and switches

First start

The begin­ner mode involves fly­ing the drone at the most min­i­mal cost, suit­able for launch­ing at home. The oth­er two modes give the pilot more options in pilot­ing, but only on the street, as the dynam­ics of the move­ment of the drone will increase sig­nif­i­cant­ly. The hull itself is strong enough, but the main rotor fas­ten­ers are dis­ap­point­ing, they come off very eas­i­ly, espe­cial­ly with care­less pilot­ing or an acci­dent. The tilt con­trol of the hard­ware works well, although with a slight delay.

Price

The MJX x900 hexa­copter is sold through all known Inter­net trad­ing plat­forms at a price of $40.

Conclusion

MJX X900 $40

Func­tion­al­i­ty

5/10

Flight time

6/10

flight qual­i­ties

5/10

com­pact­ness

10/10

Equip­ment

10/10

Reli­a­bil­i­ty

10/10

Price qual­i­ty

5/10

pros

• Design, build qual­i­ty
• Bal­anced
• Good flight per­for­mance
• Flight time up to 5 min
• Good radio range
• Remote tilt con­trol (built-in G‑sensor)
• The remote can charge the drone
• The con­trol pan­el fits oth­er mod­els of the “X” series (600/800)
• Good LED light­ing

Minuses

• Rotor pro­tec­tion miss­ing
• No head­less mode
• The rotors come off very eas­i­ly
• Flight modes “Medi­um” and “High” do not dif­fer much from each oth­er
• The pres­ence of unused but­tons on the equip­ment

Nice design and good build qual­i­ty. Bal­anced. Adapt­ed for begin­ner pilots. Due to the 22 grams of weight, the drone lacks a lit­tle ver­ti­cal thrust. But, if you sol­der a bat­tery with a larg­er capac­i­ty and dis­charge rate, then the lack of thrust will be elim­i­nat­ed, although in this case the flight time may decrease.

A photo

Pho­to from MJX X900.

Video

Video from MJX X900.