I recently did the WiFi upgrade and after about a half dozen flights with it, successfully, I experienced my first every Solo crash yesterday. Actually, two of them, one right after the other. The first crash took a few blades with it. The second crash took with it 4 blades, my gimbal, and now I need a new lense for my Hero 4 Black.
I took off from my front yard with about 30' of space in all directions. Lost connection and never could regain it. The Solo landed, on the edge of my roof, and came tumbling down. Replaced props, reset, take off again. This time it lost connection immediately and went crashing into my house.
I'm pretty certain 3DR is not going to honor any warranty since I swapped the wifi cards, so I'm out a decent amount of money and I can't fly for a week.
Wanted to share the experience. I've had many, many dozens of successful flights before the upgrade and never had I lost connection inside of 500', nor had I ever not been able to regain connection.
I can't say if the correlation is causation, but wanted to offer a bit of warning nonetheless.
I took off from my front yard with about 30' of space in all directions. Lost connection and never could regain it. The Solo landed, on the edge of my roof, and came tumbling down. Replaced props, reset, take off again. This time it lost connection immediately and went crashing into my house.
I'm pretty certain 3DR is not going to honor any warranty since I swapped the wifi cards, so I'm out a decent amount of money and I can't fly for a week.
Wanted to share the experience. I've had many, many dozens of successful flights before the upgrade and never had I lost connection inside of 500', nor had I ever not been able to regain connection.
I can't say if the correlation is causation, but wanted to offer a bit of warning nonetheless.