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Vibration Damping - a simple fix?

Remembering our physics we know that a = F/m.

With that in mind, I figured one of the best ways to reduce vibration (which is proportional to a), would be to increase the mass of the APM.  To that end, I taped together a stack of 4 US quarters and sti

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Remote status LEDs

Having status LED's on the board is nice, but they're next to useless when the board is mounted in the stack or under a cover. The next rev of the board IMO should be designed so that these LED's can be mounted remotely. A simple pin header could eit

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Motor cuts out

I believe I received a defective motor from 3DR.

I ordered the Quad kit, full electronics, with the 850kv motors.

When I apply throttle, all of the motors start up (no props!), but one of the motors sounds like it is "sputtering". Within 10 seconds or

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