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Re: Robot Power Issues
How many motors (and what kind) are on your bot? In Florida, we were running 4 CIMs, 1 FP, 3 RS-775s (that developed case shorts, providing low resistance paths between the battery leads), and the compressor, and at times we browned out the cRIO when everything was running at/near stall at once. The heavy current draw is even worse when you have poor or loose connections in the current path and/or BaneBots motor case shorts (adding to the resistance and therefore voltage drop).
Perhaps try watching your battery voltage if/when you can reproduce the problem. Plotting the battery voltage (with LabView or a Dashboard program) is even better. If you see it dropping (even momentarily) south of 5 volts, you risk causing a cRIO power cycle (the PD board requires ~4.5 volts to maintain nominal voltage to the cRIO).
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