Shawn -- we have a big mix of old junk! We have gathered the old coffelt control units from everyone who has gone to SR.

Some of the boxes have breakers that throw first. If not, then the generators will throw their breaker. We almost entirely have Honda generators (they have been great). With spare control units, we can take two, keep working when one goes down, and then send in the broken one for repairs.
Yes indeed, the state agency guys with the SR units can shock higher conductivity waters than us, and seem to get a pretty darn good field, too. With our old units and the electrospheres, the field is pretty small in high conductivity water.
P.S. Smith Root does repair our older Coffelt units.