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Reply To: Hydros CTD-10 Regularly Dropping Out (-9999)

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James_NZ
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    Hi @shicks and @neilh20

    I’m leaning more towards an interaction with the MODBUS wing.  I had one station that produced -9999’s constantly when the Turbidity sensor was plugged in, and operated fine when I removed the MODBUS wing.  This drove me nuts until Anthony pointed me towards the complex loop code where I set the Turbidity sensor to low after each reading to avoid bleeding voltage.  I have subsequently uploaded the new code to all stations, which I assumed would fix the intermittent problems, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

    Other factors: there is no damage to the cables, no corrosion, and no perceivable storm damage.

    Shannon, I’m using v0.5b and the sensor is powered from the grove slot (D10/D11).  I changed the voltage jumper to 5v because 3.3v was resulting in -9999 values (I assume because of brownout?).

    I haven’t tried unplugging the MODBUS wing, but I bet the CTD record would be perfect if I did.  I can test this later this week if we don’t find another solution.

    Perhaps it’s my code (see below)?  Can either of you see any obvious errors?

    Thanks for your help.

    James