It is a version 1.1, I was able to remove the front panel after accepting that It would be blank.... I traced out the circuit and from what I was measuring the Stand sense wire is connected to the +V supply via a resistor, the other side goes into the MCU, there is a diode for reverse protection. ESD was also my first thought, I traced out for a while and could find 0 issues..... The MCU pin where it is likely sensing the connection to ground read ~0.6V which means it is probably fine.
I am real confused on why the stand wire causes the temperature reading to change and why it is not detecting it... For now I have given up on trying to reverse engineer and find the issue.... I tried running it off a bench power supply and the same issue was present, so the bad capacitor isn't the culprit as i thought. I mainly stopped after I ran into the PNP transistor which seemed like the power supply for the MCU as that being faulty would not allow everything else to function normally