Hello,
After putting in a new board sensor recently I have been getting low readings and eventually it went to a “0” reading and wouldn’t work at all. I took out the board sensor and the lens wasn’t dirty but I heard a little plastic piece fall when I took the board sensor out. I believe it was a little transistor but I’m not sure of the correct name for it. It was so small (about 1/8 of inch in size) I couldn’t solder the 3 points back to the circuit board so I tried something I seen on Youtube to bypass the missing piece I just put a blob of solder over all 3 contact points on the circuit board and put it back inand it works just fine again.
My question is,
is there any danger to running the machine like this and can this cause any other issues?