Light meter getting wildly inaccurate readings - did TomE's Super TN31 break it? - SOLVED

No driver change, just adding a simple resistor mod I did not come up with - was published here on BLF, post #19: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/17637, and here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/16603. All the credit to AlexGT!