According to the Crown service folks here, there shouldn't be any voltage in the carriage. They suggest it could be from any battery corrosion, which doesn't look TOO awful. I will clean it up and re-test and will post my findings. Hopefully this can't be caused by anything else... expensive, and that it will remedy some of the issues. I'll post back.
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