[PhilBot]

>> Where did you learn about this? This seams to be the issue?

I was communicationg with a developer at NI and he said:

The motors have a watchdog timer of 2.5 seconds, after which they will automatically shut off if they don't receive any commands. I disabled it for finite operations like moving X rotations, but for potentially infinite operations (like running unlimited or running at constant speed), I left it enabled.

>> Also from farther up the thread, do you know any way to have a non-linear scaling that isn't a memory hog?

I don't think this is really that essential, since "most" driver just bang the controls, but an alternative would be a simple two slope scaling... eg: a scale of 0.5 for the first 50% of the Stick travel, and then a scale of 1.5 for the second 50%. This gives you full scale for 100% travel:

( 0.5 * 0.5 ) + (1.5 * 0.5) = 1.0