"If this thing worked, I was going to suggest that there is enough power out there to spare. We could possibly modulate the in-phase anode with anything we wanted, and there would be enough junk floating around in the photosphere to slam on through."
"Maybe it is that lack of selectivity that licks us now," said Don, "Run the voltage up and down a bit. There should be D. C. running around in Sol, too."
"Whatever this power-level is running at," said Barney, "we may get in-phase voltage—or in-phase power by running a line from the power terminal back. Move over, boys, I'm going to hang a test clip in here."
Barney's gloved hands fumbled a bit, but the clip was attached. He opened the anode-coupler once again, and the meter slammed against the full-scale peg.
"See?" he said triumphantly.
"Yup," said Channing cryptically. "You, Bernard, have doubled our input."
"Mind if I take a whack at aligning it?" asked Wes.
"Go ahead. What we need is a guy with eyes in his fingertips. Have you?"
"No, but I'd like to try."
Farrell worked with the deflection plate alignment, and then said, ruefully: "No dice, Barney had it right on the beam."