It's OK. In 2008, somebody asked Herb whether CASE failed to function on a shutdown Mech. It was equipment, after all, and the rules say that "all equipment on a shutdown unit does not function". The question had NEVER been asked before, and TPTB actually had to issue errata that specifically stated whether or not CASE worked in that circumstance (it does). CASE was introduced to the game in
1989; it took
nineteen years for somebody to realize that technically, CASE didn't work on a shutdown Mech.
So don't feel too bad.