At N>=2 a battery out of the split (stale link), with refused writes, or settling after a step the loop did not make (a charge end, a rejoin) now counts in the freeze test at its command, not its reading. Its real power still reaches the loop through the meter. At a drop its share leaves the loop's start point (the others take over one slew step a cycle); at a rejoin it enters at its reading. No refusal is learned while a battery's writes are refused. N=1 and the 46 identity digests are byte-identical. test_safety78 part 2: the dropped-drain case now rests at B 1510 W (grid at its -10 W aim) instead of 1500 W; the drop no longer sends B to 2500 W. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>