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Its source, however, was not an incandescent bulb, but the mantle of a gasoline lantern. "The village power-supply was shut off yesterday," Judith Darrow explained, pumping the lantern into renewed brightness. She glanced at him sideways. "Did you have dinner?" "As a matter of fact no. But please don't " "Bother? I couldn't if I wanted to. My larder is on its last legs.
Hoddan waked from a cat nap with a diagram in his head. He drew it, half-asleep, and later looked and found that his unconscious mind had designed a power-supply system which made Walden's look rather primitive During the first six days Hoddan did not sleep to speak of, and after that he merely cat-napped when he could.
He had almost to battle to get an auxiliary circuit paralleling the main overdrive unit, with a transformer to bring down voltage, and a complete new power-supply unit to be cut into the overdrive line while leaving the standard ready for use without delay. He went back to the control room. He took a distance-reading on the huge planet off to port. He threw on the new, low-power overdrive field.
Before sunset the thing was done. Fran was very respectful. This apparatus was less than a quarter the size of the one his own people had prepared for the same purpose. And it was self-powered, too; it was independent of outside power-supply. "I'd like to talk to your people about this," said Soames grimly.
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