I appreciate your condolences, gentlemen!
I was under the impression that the 2xRCR123 option had been discussed so many times and had eventually been confirmed. Actually, my own experience had been quite positive for years. But as usual, you have a positive experience just until the disaster happens and then what you are left with is the negative experience.
Anyway, I was sane enough to keep my "spare" 4 flat version on the primaries, so I still have a working A2.
And yes, the fried light is still a nice body which is most likely to go now to Tana for his mod. I have had his TripLED, SingLED mods and they are awesome.
Need to get more stock A2s though. It is ridiculous that guys have to pile great pieces of older technologies just because there is now more parts for repair. I have to keep a number of "spare" great LaserDisk players, a number of "spare" great video processors, as well as spare incand bulbs and other incand related stuff. Thats really annoying.