I cant do that. It's over 1 week into a Battery Trial (Trial #2). It's already accomplished the equivalent of 1 year of Life @ 1-hour publishes on AA batteries. It may prove 2+ years is possible. I really don't want to influence that experiment. It's my only test with Gen3 products that hasn't been influenced by the shortcomings, since it was designed to mitigate those.
I will update Boron01 to rc27 and see if the modem still spikes.
I'm open to any suggestions (except messing with Boron02 that's performing a simple publish) 
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