UPDATE
plugged the ua-5 up to the wall-wart everything seems to run fine, so I switched over the the battery I was using when the shit went down..seemed to run fine for about 5 minutes or so then I glanced down and there was no optical signal, but the phantom light was still on, I though WTF maybe the solder point came loose...opened it up solder point is holding strong. so I hooked it back up and switch my optical cable, this time no opti signal, no phantom, switched over to the wallwart, everything works fine, so it's either the battery or my VR-Box, I'm leaning heavily towards the battery, I read the current coming through the VR-Box ~4.5V, unplugged the battery from the box and read the current directly ~7.2V and then starting slowly climbing towards 7.5V. I have my other battery charging so I can test a fully charged battery and see what is up, keeping my fingers crossed its just the battery.