Syma Forum

JamDJ said
My first Syma was the S111 and that's how I got hooked here a year ago. Agreed with what

CPD said, they may have had a bad batch. I flew mine for about 3 days until the main rotor brace broke

and did a light crash, but tore up the insides. That crash shoud NOT have broken it, I'm thinking a

Syma defect in the manufacturing process. Good luck!

There's always something that gets screwed up in a batch of helis, it's all chineese plastic made by the chineese and engineered by the chineese, and there's always something messed up. At one point, there was a bad batch of main gears that would just shred, my first s800g was part of a bad batch with bad remotes, and I don't remember what all else there's been bad. The thing is, when they're just banging out as many as possable, for what little profit they must be making off of each one, their QC guys just need to test and make sure the motors work and charge it before it heads out. Probably don't check the remotes, just hook them up to the bank of charge ports to charge, run the motors off of the same remote for a second, if it lifts off, good, if not, throw it in the bin. And they probably only do that with every few hundred helis, which is why they have pallets that get out on the market with the problems.

Can't say I blame them, once they fix all the problems like bad gears, bad switches, etc, they would loose all of their profits probably. Instead, send em out, if they come back bad, then fix em and send them out, if they don't, whatever, that's another one sold.

I believe it's part of the motherboard on these ones, but I could be wrong. (looks up the part on amazon) AHA! http://www.ebay.com/itm/SYMA-S.....3ccd46ef17

That's the only one I could find online, and it has an external switch. You probably can find a replacement switch at your local Radio Shak. Cut splice

and solder the wires, and you should be good. I'm not sure exactly what kind of switch you can get, but they should have something you can jerry rig a lot cheaper than anything you're going to get from syma.

Gonna have to keep an eye on this, sounds like they used bad plastic on it, which means they might have a bad batch of them out there.