Geez Pat, I'm gonna have to nominate you for the "Golden Have Nuthin' Else To Do With My Time Award " for 2022. And at least a first runner-up for the "My Time is Worth Absolutely Nothing Award."
You've got a problem involving a silly cheap lock-on, the problem can be totally fixed in minutes by soldering the wires to track, you said you could do that, . . . . but you still want to spend your time trying to figure out what's wrong with the cheap lock-on? Really? :-)
Mannyrock