agreed,the stuff has to put up with a lot of abuse my point is still valid.If you had any class of consumer electronics failing at the rate this stuff fails people would be screaming bloody murder.To Castles credit they do a great job in cos tumer service and from what ive seen there stuff holds up better than most,butt i only get out to run once or twice aweek and my impresions are that about one in three trips out someone frys a system and 80 or 90% of the time its a 1/8 setup that had been running fine. ive never heard off the system mentioned inyour thread butt ill look into it