Dead Panasonic Q

[El Geet]

Not only has my PC been dying on me all week but, in a haze of tiredness, illness and not having used the bugger for so long, I very, very, very stupidly plugged my Panasonic Q directly into the wall i.e. without using a stepdown.

Whilst the intial result was not any where near as spectacular as when my flatmate once did the same to an NTSC X-Box (BANG!) (the Q issued forth a whimper (click!)) the end result is the same - fuxxxored.

Can I get my silver baby repaired? Will I recover the one console that was certain to make me an ebay billionaire in 1000 years' time? In short, can you help?

[mr_fantazmo]

Welcome to the club matey, i did exactly the same thing!! I still haven't got mine fixed as it's quite expensive, i was quoted ?80 @ ravengames, but apparantly they are an absolute bast to take apart as they're built in layers and yes you guessed the psu is right at the bottom.

[Saurian]

It's not too bad once you get used to it, once you get to know the Q you can take it apart in no time - ?80 is steep for a console repair, but you do know that there are members here who will do a better job for half that or less?

[mr_fantazmo]

Really?? I don't suppose you could point us in the right direction could you??

[Saurian]

Check the chipping, retailers and services thread at the top of this forum section. I'm not shy in slagging off the work from these import shops - I've had many machines sent to me that have been botched by places like Raven, Goldenshop, Lik-sang etc, recently had an N64 in who's motherboard had been GLUED to the machine to prevent further work. The last Q I had in was badly damaged by an RGB cable Raven supplied, this was the single worst piece of electronics work I have seen in a long time and dont get me started on what people do to Panasonic Qs regarding the multiregion mod...

I'm considering taking them on -

There's a couple regulators and a capacitors on the PSU board that will blow if you plug it into UK mains, problem is these components are unmarked. I'm trying to get hold of a dead Q someone sent to me before to work out what's what beforehand.

[mr_fantazmo]

Well that'd be a great help if you start doing them, you won't be short of business as i know for sure that there have been a few posts recently regarding the Q. You'll have to let us know a price etc when you've sorted things out.

Cheers