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Photo 2 and 3 look like the same problem i had. I fried the 165 on the digital board. This happens easilly if you put the boards toghether to test them without the case and spacers. The regulators shorted to the resistor network on the digital board. You probably have to replace the 165. Its the IC above led 7 and 8.
Regarding the first control board, the problem could be with the MCU (ATMega644P) chip – could explain why the LED pattern is not normal and why the LCD receives garbage. Check also the quartz and the nearby capacitors.
The two other units look stuck in bootloader mode. The culprit might be the 74hc165, but since you mention something about the resistor network this could be the problem too. There needs to be a +5V voltage on the pin11 of the 74hc165 – switch not pressed and pulled-up to +5V through the resistor network ; if not, the MCU will think that the switches are pressed and boot into firmware update mode.
If you broke the SSM2044 board resonance trimmer and this causes resonance, it’s pretty obvious that this is the part to replace.
For your power supply problems on the SMR4, follow this. In particular, please post the 6 voltages at the pins of the regulators, and check that you have not swapped them.
Your case should better have ventholes since the regulators can get quick warm. If this is not possible, you can try using a power supply which generates only 7.5V to minimize the power dissipated at the regulators.
You can find jumper wires here
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