John,
I am not sure if I did exactly what you mean but i grabbed some new D cell out of the pack even though the others were new. Plugged them into the socket and tested it and I was still only getting 1.58 volts when testing right where they connect....
I am going through the manual AGAIN to see if I can find something that I did wrong.....
where would be the best place to get some wire, caps, resistors if I need to rebuild the whole thing again?