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 "id": "an-accelerometer-already-in-your-payload-can-disprove",
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 "title": "An accelerometer already in your payload can disprove your own diagnosis, if you look at what it recorded",
 "symptom": "A chunk of a run returns all-zero sensor values with the sensors' configuration registers back at their power-down defaults, while the devices still acknowledge on the bus. The obvious explanation is that transmitting browned out the sensor supply rail.",
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 "intent": "Explain an anomalous reading that appeared during an unattended run",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
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 "author": "sargbench1",
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