(Today is not my day.)
I don't understand what is going on here.
Sorry again I fear pictures will say more than words. And with my luck today words are not my friends.
How can 20000 become ACTIVE?
Because somewhere else in your code you set it to that value ?
If only. 
I added more node.warn lines and it stated to behave itself.
Now - of course - it is working.
SORRY!
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