Jaguars/CIMS halting during operation

[EthanMiller]

While driving the robot, our drive CIMS randomly cut out. We're using the ToughBoxes to gear together two CIMS on each side, and they're definitely going in the same direction.

Each CIM has it's own Jaguar, which has been connected correctly as near as I can tell.

This happens mostly when a quick change of direction takes place. Afterwords, the motors cease working until we disable the robot from the Classmate, then reenable it. Using the default Java code, the only thing that stops working are the CIMS/Jaguars, which have flashing yellow lights. If joystick buttons are pressed, the solenoid LEDs light correctly and the NetBeans output shows the correct output, as when switching from Tank to Arcade Drive.

Although I don't remember it, our robot last year had the same problem by a few accounts, and stopped as soon as we got to competition. I've tried everything I can think of short of programming in an acceleration curve. Also, searching on CD turned up nothing of use.

Any ideas?