Thank you for your condolences Sluggo, however we did reccover from our period of mourning relatively quickly thanks to a QUICK replacement unit sent by Outlaw.

i have made a promise to myself to do my best not let this re-occur with the 990 which hopefully will be in the rack in the next few weeks.

The things impressed me about the Price-Wheeler(Brickwall) company was the fact the company was created with a mission statement that had absolutely nothing to do with protecting audio components. I have a tendency to believe them regarding entry into the "audiophile" market was more or less by mistake when people started using the "original ugly" units for the purposes that you and I require.

I took a look at the TrippLite units that you had mentioned Gonk, and seemed to me at the time, that they were a bit more expensive (if my memory serves me correctly, which sometimes works good and sometimes not so good).

Oh yea, at the time my first 950 unit went down, I was running my system on two separate 15A circuits using two Woods suppressors with 3450 joule rating on both circuits.
I am happy to report that both of those units have long since been retired to the "round file" but not until after having learned "the hard way".