It sounds like you have broken the sense connection for the
controller (either a physical open circuit, or one of those sparks
found itself a little snack on the control board).
Fault responses can be difficult to debug if you can't force your
way past the failsafes (and should you, if you know little about
what you're poking?).
Might root around for model number and "schematic" through
the usual search engines, could see if there are connectorized
signals which look like they bring a remote line voltage back
to the board and chase that wire, see if it's close to observed
"action" and any physical issues reveal themselves.