[Greg McKaskle]

Looking at your logs, it appears that packets are arriving at the DS when they are supposed to. It is of course to good to look at CPU usage and keep background services like virus scanning in check, but I believe your problem is electrical.

There is a new feature of the dashboard that I've seen hardly anyone use. It lets you record a match, video, network tables, joysticks, motor outputs, even Kinect and stuff. If you had a recorded match, it would let you see what your joystick values were during your flat spot. It would let you see what your SW was asking the motor controllers to output. But I'm sure you don't.

So. To read the tea leaves again. I'd do two things to your robot. Follow the wiring from one of your motor controllers back to the PD. Verify that it is plugged into a 40A circuit. It isn't common, but sometimes the motors are running on a 20A or 30A circuit. They work when driven nicely, and they trip breakers when driven like you mean it. Then they sit still while the motor controller reboots -- usually a second or two depending on the model and mfg.

The second thing I'd check, though it doesn't explain the flat spots as well. Verify that your digital breakout has three bright green LEDs next to the 12V input power, and of course make sure the 12V power is actually connected to a 12V circuit.

Greg McKaskle