Huge vibration of props until the copter is takeoff

ArduCopter Copter 4.0
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This has nothing to do with PIDs or tuning.

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I ran into this with a quad once and the way I fixed it was by shortening the landing gear as much as possible. If you can’t shorten - try lengthening to see if it get rids of the issue. Both should slightly modify the resonance frequency - which may stop vibrations.

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I believe the vibration would go away by reducing mot_thst_expo to anything below 0.2 but you claim that’s not. Maybe you should give it a try and tune base on lower value of mot_thst_expo. I had the same exact problem with my alpha esc on a large quad with AUW of 27 kg that higher Takeoff vibration was pretty scary on takeoff.

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This kind of vibrations are mostly caused by the landing gear. Not rigid enough it enter in resonance and vibrate in the all frame.