SWELLPRO SPRY User Manual
The world's only waterproof sport drone
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- Page 1 Check www.swellpro.com for the latest version of this manual and firmware updates for your User Manual V3.8 drone. The world's only waterproof sport drone. PIONEER OF THE WATERPROOF DRONE www.swellpro.com...
- Page 2 With proper care and maintenance you should enjoy your drone for many years. After flying in salt or contaminated water, always thoroughly rinse and dry your Spry in fresh water immediately after use or before salt and sediment can dry inside moving parts.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Micro SD Card Installation Battery Battery Installation Low Battery Alarm Low temperature precautions Remote Controller Charging Remote Controller Battery Low Battery Alarm Remote Controller Operation Remote Controller Pairing Camera Camera Settings and Use Camera Indicator Flight ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... - Page 4 Basic Flight Steps Water Take-o and Landing Take-o and Landing from a Boat APP Control Tap to Fly Flight Path Setting Flight Safety Battery Related Maintenance Trouble Shooting Disclaimer and Warning Appendix Specifications Warranty Information Version Information ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved...
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Page 5: Product Overview
2. The aerodynamic shape of the whole drone is designed to effectively minimize wind resistance and improve flight speed. 3. Spry's camera uses a Sony 1 / 2.3 inch CMOS sensor matched to a lens that minimizes fisheye distortion to obtain natural-looking scenes. Use your Spry to record stunning 4K videos at 30 frames per second or take high-definition 12MP photos. -
Page 6: Drone Illustration
[03] Drone Nose Lights [09] CW Propeller Nut [15] Battery Cover Lock [04] CCW Propeller [10] CW Propeller [16] Battery Cover Mount [05] CCW Motor [11] Power Button [06] CCW Propeller Nut [12] GPS pod ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 7: Remote Controller Illustration
If the rubber joystick seals balloon or suck in, simply equalize the pressure inside the remote by briefly opening the USB charge plug. Note: The default remote control configuration is left hand as throttle. If you prefer to have right hand throttle, please consult your local dealer. ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 8: Fpv Screen Osd Illustration
Flight Modes The Spry utilizes a brand new flight control system which incorporates 5 of the best flight modes. GPS mode: This mode uses the GPS module to achieve accurate and stabilized hovering, braking, intelligent flight, intelligent return and other intelligent flight mode functions. In this mode, maximum flight speed is 10m/s, maximum ascent speed is 4m/s, and maximum descent speed is 4m/s. - Page 9 10m/s in Follow Me mode, the Spry will stop following the remote controller and remain hovering in place. If the GPS module in the remote controller does not have an accurate fix, the controller status light will flash red, Follow Me cannot be started.
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Page 10: Return Home
SPRY has two Return Home modes: Manual Return and Out-of-Range Return. Manual Return: When you activate the Return Home feature of the Spry, the drone will take the last known position of the Remote Controller as the home point. If the Remote Controller has a good GPS signal, it will continue to update its position to the drone until the drone is within 10 meters of the controller's position. -
Page 11: Drone Indication Lights
Low battery warning Propellers Spry comes standard with 6" 2-bladed propellers and is also compatible with 5” 3-bladed propellers. The 2 blade speed is relatively slow, but the flight time is longer than the 3 blade. You can choose the propellers to suit your requirements. -
Page 12: Micro Sd Card Installation
Spry until it clicks and locks into place. To remove the card, push the card gently towards the nose of the Spry until it clicks and then ejects. Take care to prevent the card from ejecting too fast out of the slot. -
Page 13: Battery
Battery The Spry is supplied with a high-voltage lithium battery (LiHV) and a corresponding charger. To charge the drone battery: Plug in the charger. After 3 seconds, its four status lights will flash left and right indicating the charger is ready. Connect the battery to the charger using the supplied adapter cable. The larger plug on the cable is inserted into the top port of the charger. -
Page 14: Low Battery Alarm
3. When you landing in low temperature water, the drone might need more time to warn up the sensor before able to arm. Remote Controller This section introduces the remote controller functions, including the drone operation and the camera operation. ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 15: Charging Remote Controller Battery
Charging Remote Controller Battery The Spry remote controller has a built-in battery and charging circuit. Charge the controller using the Some USB ports and some USB cables supplied micro-USB cable and a regular 5V /2A USB charger. cannot provide the full 2 amps (2A) of power required. These ports and cables can still be used to charge the Remote Controller but the charging time will be longer. - Page 16 In the Follow Me mode, the joysticks are disabled. Long-press the “F” button again to cancel Follow Me and resume joystick operation. When the speed of the remote controller exceeds 10m/s during Follow Me operation the Spry will stop following and hover in place.
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Page 17: Remote Controller Pairing
800m. For best reception, keep the left-hand (2.4GHz) antenna horizontal and the right-hand antenna (5.8GHZ) vertical. Camera Tilt Control Illustration Description Camera up Camera down Camera up: Tilt camera up Camera down: Tilt camera down ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 18: Camera
APK from either the Android market or our website www.swellpro.com. To connect the app to the Spry’s camera, power on the drone, then press the WiFi switch on the underside of the drone. The switch will begin flashing Red-Green. Connect your mobile device to the SwellPro... WiFi hotspot, the password is 00000000. -
Page 19: Camera Settings And Use
+2.0 +1.7 +1.3 +1.0 +0.7 +0.3 0.0 -0.3 -0.7 -1.0 -1.3 -1.7 -2.0 White Balance AUTO, cloudy, sunny, Incandescent lamp, Fluorescent lamp Distortion Correction ON OFF Metering Global metering, Center-weighted, spot Format Confirm Cancel About this device firmware details Restore Settings Confirm Cancel ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 20: Camera Indicator
ATTI mode in case of GPS or magnetic interference, which can interfere with drone controls. 1. Although the Spry is waterproof, do not fly in heavy fog or if the wind is very strong or gusting above Beufort Force 4. - Page 21 3. The drone will now perform IMU calibration. Do not move or disturb the drone during this process. When the “INITIALIZING” message disappears from the FPV display, the process is compete, restart the aircraft. ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved...
- Page 22 3. Hold the drone nose vertically downward, rotate clockwise until the screen displays “INITIALIZING” indicating the calibration is finished. Place the drone on a horizontal surface for 30 seconds to finish the initializing, restart the drone. ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved...
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Page 23: Imu Calibration
“WARNING NO GPS” and the motors will not unlock. Unlocking (starting) the Motors Illustration Description Pull both the left and right joysticks simultaneously towards either the lower inside or lower outside points. Maintain this position for 3 seconds to unlock the motors. ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 24: Basic Flight Steps
9. After safely landing, keep the throttle down in its lowest position for at least 5 seconds until the motors have stopped or use the disarm joystick command. 10. Stop recording video before powering off the drone, followed by its remote controller. ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 25: Water Take-O And Landing
3. Do not leave the drone floating inverted for more than a few minutes.If the drone becomes inverted on the surface of the water, flip the drone by arming (unlock) the Spry and it will perform a Power Flip and right itself on the water. - Page 26 If the boat is rocking, the Spry may not arm its motors in GPS mode. In this case, carefully take-off in ATTI mode and then switch to GPS mode if there are sufficient satellites.
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Page 27: App Control
APP Control The Spry remote controller has a built-in WI-FI module that can be used to connect your mobile device and control the aircraft to perform various intelligent automatic flight modes with the Spry APP. APP installation: The Spry app is available for iOS and Andoid devices. Android systems can download the APK from either the Android market or our website www.swellpro.com. -
Page 28: Tap To Fly
2. Tap-to-Fly: Click the “Tap-to-Fly” button, and then click the target points on the map and click the Upload button. The drone will start flying to the point and hover there. If you need to set the parameters manually, you can tap on the flight point. 11.2V Delete Upload Lat：113.860667 Ing：22.704291 ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 29: Flight Path Setting
If the drone continually fails to respond to your APP commands, please operate the drone with the remote controller: quickly switch the Flight Mode switch once, it is suggested to use the GPS mode to take over control. ©2019 SwellPro All Rights Reserved... -
Page 30: Flight Safety
According to provisions of the International Civil Aviation Organization and many national air traffic regulations, drones must be operated in specified airspaces. The Spry is configured to not exceed an altitude of 200m and a distance of 800m from the remote controller. Maximum flight height: 200meters Home point Maximum flight radius: 800meters... - Page 31 Battery Charging 1. Always use a Swellpro approved charger to charge the battery of the drone. Swellpro takes no responsibility if the battery is charged using a non-Swellpro charger. 2. In order to avoid any potential accidents happening, please do not leave the battery charging unattended.
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Page 32: Maintenance
7. In the event of the Spry not being used for a long time, please store the drone and the batteries in a dry, and ventilated environment at 20°C~28°C. -
Page 33: Trouble Shooting
Trouble Shooting 1. Since Spry drone is completely sealed, occasionally there is a little mist on the camera dome and remote control screen when flying in wet places. 2. For the camera dome moisture problem, you have two fast ways to solve this problem:1) Open the battery cover, let the heat and moisture air inside the drone goes out. - Page 34 fire, explosion, floods, tsunamis, ice, snow, avalanche, flooding, landslide, earthquake, etc. 14. Damage or injuries incurred by intentionally dropping or crashing the Spry into the water from a high altitude, especially water ingress into the drone fuselage.
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Page 35: Appendix
19. DO NOT fly the Spry under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other physical or mental impediment. 20. Please don't fly the drone with a malfunctioning radio controller - Please fly the drone away from crowds. -
Page 36: Warranty Information
Note: When you receive the drone, please register your warranty on our official support page (https://www.swellpro.com/service.html) to register and activate the warranty (This is very important; it will ensure your drone is covered by the after-sales terms in the warranty period). -
Page 37: Version Information
Version Information SwellPro products are constantly being improved. Therefore, although the latest version of this manual may contain information relating to a release of the equipment different from your own, new information is added constantly which is relevant to ALL customers. - Page 38 User Manual 2019.5...
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