Jacquie noticed that the d.9m radiometer data stopped coming in at 16:47 yesterday (5/11).  This morning, the mote was reporting only its boot-up messages, and cycling through them.  I think this indicates a bad sensor that pulls down the I2C line and thus creates an error in the mote's program when it starts to power the I2C lines.  I became distracted and when trying a few hours later, I get no response at all from this mote after several pio power cycles and even a ddn/dup.    Looking at the high-rate data, I see good messages from all 4 radiometers until 15:39, and then none.  This gives no clue as to which (if any) radiometer went bad to cause the reboot cycling.

I can't think of anything else to do from here.  I'll add debugging/servicing of these sensors to the task list for the next site visit, which will be in a week and a half.  At the very least, we will send out another V2.7 mote.  If this has issues, we can systematically plug each of the radiometers in to see if one is bad.  If so, we might have to leave it disconnected, since changing out a spare would be a major task.  (Though, perhaps possible.)


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