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I'm skeptical that a power moment---just one scene--could or should sell a book on its own.  If it can, it must be for more than just power.  The writing itself must have a beauty and a power to move the reader like the last paragraph of A Chapter Not Strictly Necessary in C. S. Lewis's Miracles (start at the last paragraph and turn the page) or the first section of the Preamble of Volume 1 of William Manchester'sThe Last Lion.

(There's a section omitted from the Manchester sample, about the failure of Boudiciea's campaign against the Romans.  For all I know it was cut from newer editions.  You should be able to see where it connects in.)

What, you didn't see all the pieces moving in that direction?  The kidnapping of Sil is the tipping point.

All the more reason to work more and harder.

The pigeon flasher control circuits are doing things that I don't understand.  The undervolt detector is also causing me trouble, which might require replacing it with a surface-mount version half the size of a grain of rice, or might just require a smaller pull-up resistor, which would cut into my power budget.

I'll have to start by replacing the mosfets in case I've damaged one of them.  I have to check leakage currents in my schottky diodes.  I might need a different part.  I have to ....

Oh, yes, Erevain.  I've done a little study on Jamen which shows where I mean to send him.  It's tucked in Book 2.

The reason won't come through yet.

Pigeon flasher works, control circuits don't.  It will be hard to debug because of the very high impedences.  I may have to give in and spend a few more microamps.

I may have a better layout for the undervolt detector.  Five devices, three with two terminals, two with three, a total of three circut nodes (not counting the power rails), including the output terminal--and I must have spent fifty hours seeing how to lay it out.  I should try that in the morrning.

Mwahh-hahh-HAHH-HAHH-HAHH!

If you were it would increase your chances of winning to 100%.

Okay, I'll publish then.  Okay if it's a chapter and not a standalone?

The contest publicity blurb specifies publication, which was not part of the original contest specification.

Oh, 'indicate' is pronounced 'signal' and no, most of us are inconsiderate boors who only signal a turn for form AFTER we've begun to brake or even come to a stop.  Nor do we know to take our cars out of reverse and shut the backup lights off when we are waiting for someone else to cross behind us.

You have a splendid chance to instruct the teeming millions by example every time you set out on the roads.  Please take it.

In many states, when you are driving (car in gear) with the wipers on, your headlights must be on.

Know that many American drivers will tend to lock speed with you in other lanes, blocking others from passing, and even drive alongside of you, preventing you (or them) from escaping in an emergency as well as blocking others from passing.  Your defensive driving should be one step ahead of these insensate and dangerous louts--about 40% of  the drivers on the road.  People who would never let a spring-loaded door close in someone else's face can't transfer this awareness to the highway.

Never make the other driver react to you if you can help it.  Always make his choice easy and obvious.  We 'mericans need it.  We drive the way we handle carts in the supermarket--and vice versa.

I don't know if Australia uses the UK term 'High Street'.  The US term is 'Main Street', notwithstanding that the most common street name is actually 'Broad Street'.

Okay, the modified detector works.  I had to diddle a few of the resistor values, including one that was there for a while.  The hysteresis on the upper threshold is 3%, a little low.  But changing that would mean tinkering with almost every resistor in the detector.  The thresholds are: low-middle transition: on: 2.7v, off: 2.4 v, middle-to-high transition: on: 27.2v, off: 25.6v.

Low means no signal on the line.  Mid is off-hook, high is on-hook.

Back to the pigeon flasher.

Oh, for the other title look to Hogarth.