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There are several counter-arguments to the above, indicating that Tom somehow confused the serial ports in his log message, and that the cabling was not crossed up matched the intended configuration in the wide array.
First, the serial number to sensor id relation can be read from the data archive, since the rserial output is archived. Assuming Tom progressed through the serial ports in order, they show the serial number sequence to be 744, 745, 376, and not 745, 376, 744. The sensor ids are also in time order, 2040, 2050, 2060:
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