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SERVICE MANUAL

COPYRIGHT © 2005 Victor Company of Japan, Limited

No.YF100

2005/8

DIGITAL MEDIA CAMERA

YF100

2005

8

GZ-MC500US

Lead free solder used in the board (material : Sn-Ag-Cu, melting point : 219 Centigrade)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PRECAUTIONS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1-3

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SPECIFIC SERVICE INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1-5

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DISASSEMBLY  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1-27

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ADJUSTMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1-40

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TROUBLE SHOOTING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1-42

GZ-MC500US [M5S727]

Summary of Contents for GZMC500US - Everio Camcorder - 1.33 MP

Page 1: ... DIGITAL MEDIA CAMERA YF100 2005 8 GZ MC500US Lead free solder used in the board material Sn Ag Cu melting point 219 Centigrade TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 PRECAUTIONS 1 3 2 SPECIFIC SERVICE INSTRUCTIONS 1 5 3 DISASSEMBLY 1 27 4 ADJUSTMENT 1 40 5 TROUBLE SHOOTING 1 42 GZ MC500US M5S727 ...

Page 2: ...x system Speaker Monaural Flash Within 2 m recommended shooting distance For Video Audio Format SD VIDEO Recording Playback format Video MPEG 2 Audio Dolby Digital 2 ch Signal format NTSC standard Recording mode Video ULTRA FINE 720 480 pixels 8 5 Mbps CBR FINE 720 480 pixels 5 5 Mbps CBR NORMAL 720 480 pixels 4 2 Mbps VBR ECONOMY 352 240 pixels 1 5 Mbps VBR Audio ULTRA FINE 48 kHz 384 kbps FINE 4...

Page 3: ...rts 9 When a power cord has been replaced check that 10 15 kg of force in any direction will not loosen it Fig 1 1 2 10 Also check areas surrounding repaired locations 11 Products using cathode ray tubes CRTs In regard to such products the cathode ray tubes themselves the high voltage circuits and related circuits are specified for compliance with recognized codes pertaining to X ray emission Cons...

Page 4: ...g prongs and externally exposed accessible parts Use an AC voltmeter to measure across both terminals of load Z See Fig 1 1 9 and following Fig 1 1 12 Fig 1 1 9 5 Grounding Class 1 model only Confirm specified or lower grounding impedance between earth pin in AC inlet and externally exposed accessible parts Video in Video out Audio in Audio out or Fixing screw etc Measuring Method Connect milli oh...

Page 5: ...oved from commercial products when producing EVERIO exclusive PowerDirector Although a commercial product seems to be used with EVERIO as a replacement for a provided product the video that is taken with EVERIO cannot be seen as the commercial products cannot deal the file extension MOD There is no performance assurance even if playback is available by changing the extension In many cases import e...

Page 6: ...dards The CF standard is compact and Flash ATA Card compatible recording media memory card developed by SanDisk Corporation As technical innovation requires new standard that supports the products with faster transfer speed the new CF standard arrived in June 2003 The CF standard has an increase in transfer speed from existing 8MB sec to 16MB sec while maintaining the compatibility with the existi...

Page 7: ...in the same even phase as the Red and Green wavelengths The merits of 3CCD system include full utilization of high reso lution by using corresponding CCD to each wavelength of RGB and high color reproducibility and good image quality owing to optimum image output from each chip On the other hand the demerits of 3CCD system are as previ ously mentioned difficulties in controlling air gap due to the...

Page 8: ... mainly used with 3CCD In this technology only the Green CCD which is responsible for the luminance signal is physically displaced slightly in half a pixel When the Green G is diagonally displaced to the lower right direction the RGB can exist in the proportion of 1 1 4 1 instead of 1 1 1 at the position of 1 4 in the upper left of the Green e g G1 Fig 2 6 5 Pixel shift in 3CCD system When the RGB...

Page 9: ... heads on each side of the disk The disk and the head do not contact and there is cer tain space kept between them The head reads the pre recorded servo information to control the head itself When the head is not in access to the disk it is kept in a shelter to avoid damaging the disk with shocks from outside The difference between a 2GB Microdrive and a 4GB Microdrive is only whether it has one h...

Page 10: ... the Microdrive or cut off the power unless otherwise indicated or needed 2 4 4 Microdrive backup Unlike the information on tapes customers information on Micro drives can become unreadable in an instant Taking into account the personal information management do not perform Microdrive backup basically If backup is needed during the procedure refer to the followings to carry out the backup hard dis...

Page 11: ... is a hole on the reverse side of the Microdrive for ventilation through special filter Sealing the holes gives effect on the operation 3 Check whether the Microdrive label is peeled or turned If there are peel or turn in the label the loading failure may occur Peels or turns will not occur under normal condi tions thus storage or usage under hot and humid condi tion near organic solvent or exposu...

Page 12: ...with a device other than the main unit Basically do not recover user data If recovery is needed in certain cases recovery can be done by using recovery software which can recover MPEG2 data such as Final Data 3 0 Premium It enables the drive recognition and the data reading Once the data is recovered follow the below procedure Go to 2 4 5 5 Go to 2 4 5 4 2 4 5 3 Check the emergency record of the m...

Page 13: ...go The main purpose of the sales is the same as that of CU MD04J The additional purpose of the sales of CU MD04U is to sell Microdrives as campaign promotion prod ucts for the release at a low price with the coupons that come with EVERIO 2 Microdrives used as provided products with other equipments This is a red labeled Microdrive which is provided with EVER IO These Microdrives are produced and u...

Page 14: ...e mentioned Microdrives with blue labels with labels for OEM or with red labels these Microdrives are cus tomized exclusively for the housing equipments Therefore it is obvious that these built in Microdrives cannot be operation guaranteed as they do not have compatibility with other equipments They might damage the connected equip ments at the worst In the past it was introduced through internet ...

Page 15: ...AM MANAGEMENT FILE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT FILE The management data of the moving images are recorded in the PRG_MGR file s without extension PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT FILE PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT FILE MEDIA OBJECT DATA FILE MEDIA OBJECT DATA FILE MEDIA INFORMATION FILE MEDIA INFORMATION FILE MOV_ MPG EXTERNAL MOVIE FOLDER DATA FILE EXTERNAL MOVIE FOLDER DATA FILE It is a folder where the moving image files and ...

Page 16: ...striction of audio recording media or spec Audio recording is explained as follows 2 4 7 4 1 Recording mode and sampling frequency 2 4 7 4 2 Recording time The value varies slightly according to each medium Microdrive Compact flash card and SD card In addition these values are theoretical values and it does not guarantee the recording time 2 4 8 HiTest 2 4 8 1 Introduction CF II compliant 1 inch s...

Page 17: ... installation and the installation does not complete The operation becomes unstable while starting up the software NOTE2 There must be PCMCIA card PC card TYPE ll slot which is equipped to NOTE PCs and some desktop PCs HiTest can not be used with CF Microdrive reader with USB or CF di rect insert drives HiTest software does not operate by itself Windows as an operation system tests Microdrives by ...

Page 18: ... 3 Input the information of the person who carries out the test then press the OK button User Name Input your name in one byte alphabetical characters Customer Name Input JVC in one byte characters Location Input the division where you belong to in one byte alphabetical characters e g JSCA Tester Name Name the PC on which the test is carried out This is to specify the PC where the test is carried ...

Page 19: ...d P 8 When the PCI Card Information window is displayed click the SCAN PCI Card button 9 Check whether CardBus is displayed in the lowest row then click the Save and Close button 10 When the screen returns to the test window the prepa ration for start up is completed Click the Close button X button in the far upper right or click the Config drop down and select Exit to finish the software 5 Uninst...

Page 20: ... the pull down button to select the name of the person who carries out the test and press the OK button If the display contents are wrong or there is no appro priate name in the User Name option directly input the information in the columns They will be displayed as options when the pull down button is pressed next time 6 Check the information in the Country and City window When the information on...

Page 21: ...rrence conditions input those additional information in one byte charac ters in English Input all items then press the ENTER key The item section changes to green 17 When all the input and the selection have been made press the Save button 18 When Save Completed is displayed below the Save button it is completed Click the close button X button in the far upper right to close the Drive Login window...

Page 22: ...quence test or Standard Sequence Sequential Read Verify test In usual case select the Standard Sequence test then press the Apply button 8 Press the Start ALL button to start the test During the test the drive serial number is displayed in the light blue line and the PROGRESS window is open to show the progress status 6 3 Test results 1 When the test has been finished the color of the line in the ...

Page 23: ...ectors The arrangement of the sectors sometimes may break up for some reasons vibrations or heat etc In those cases the test results are NG as the data read write are impossible even though the hard disk itself is normal It is necessary to physically format the Microdrive once to confirm the Microdrive defect The easiest way to perform physical format seems to be DDD CleanDisk As mentioned earlier...

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Page 25: ...location It is too ineffi cient as it takes too much time From the above examples the following can be said 4K byte cluster size format for comparatively small files such as Windows systems and various programs 8 to 16 K byte cluster size format for medium files such as Office documents including MS Word and 32K byte cluster size format for large files such as video and audio for efficient disk re...

Page 26: ...ail size DPOF images Print all the images within the medium 㶎DSC images in the image format of which the printer does not support are not necessarily output Area specified print Print trimmed images Copy print Multiple print in specified numbers 䂾 Date stamped print Print with a shooting date stamp 䂾 Specified sheet size print Print with sheet specification Fixed size print Print in specified prin...

Page 27: ...the identification location No of parts Figures 2 Part to be removed or installed 3 Fig No showing Procedure or Part Location 4 Identification of part to be removed unhooked unlocked released unplugged unclamped or unsoldered S Screw L Lock Release Hook SD Solder CN Connector Example 4 S1a Remove 4 S1a screws 3 L1a Disengage 3 L1a hooks 2 SD1a Unsolder 2 SD1a points CN1a Remove a CN1a connector 5 ...

Page 28: ...CON NECTOR or cut break the WIRE NOTE6b When removing be careful in handling the SPACER NOTE6c Be careful with the wiring and the affixing the SPACER NOTE6d When attaching be sure to place the FPC WIRE inside NOTE6e When attaching lift the part ARM upward NOTE6f During the procedure be careful not to deform the part ARM or damage other parts NOTE7a Be careful with the positions of the SCREWS that ...

Page 29: ... HOOD ASSY 1 NOTE1a 0 039N m 0 4kgf cm 0 069N m 0 7kgf cm 5 S2a 6 S2b 7 S2c 8 S2c 9 S2d 7 S2c 8 S2c 2 1 A A A C C B B NOTE2c NOTE2b NOTE2b NOTE2a NOTE2a NOTE2b SHAFT BELT BOTTOM VIEW JIG CONNECTOR NOTE2b 0 039N m 0 4kgf cm 10 S1c 11 S1c 11 S1c 10 S1c CN1a L1a L1b CN1b SPACER NOTE1c WIRE BATT TRIPOD NOTE1d NOTE1d 1 D D BOTTOM VIEW 3 E E F 1 F 12 S3 13 S3 ...

Page 30: ... FOR SPACER ATTACHING SPACER REG BOARD ASSY WIRE BROWN CONECTOR CN302 WIRE BLACK NOTE6a NOTE6b NOTE6b SPACER SPACER FOIL SIDE B COMPONENT SIDE A c L6 b CN6c CN6d CN6a CN6h CN6h CN308 CN6e CN6g CN6f CN6b CN6b CN6b d d f f a a e e g g 21 S6 22 S6 6 NOTE6c NOTE6b CN6e CN306 CN6b CN302 CN6a CN301 CN6f CN310 CN6d CN303 CN6c CN309 CN6g CN304 d c c b b e h g h h SPACER ...

Page 31: ...SY 30Pin RED WIRE CF BOARD ASSY 27Pin RED WIRE g OPE2 f CF SW BOARD ASSY WIRE NOTE6d a REG BOARD ASSY b h DIGITAL CDS BOARD ASSY 11Pin WIRE NOTE6e f NOTE6f CN6a CN301 CN6b CN302 CN6e CN306 CN6h CN308 YELLOW WIRE CN6c CN309 CN6d CN303 CN6f CN310 CN6h CN308 CN6g CN304 RED WIRE GREEN WIRE GREEN WIRE OUTSIDE RED WIRE INSIDE 23 S7a 24 S7a L7b 25 S7b 7 NOTE7 NOTE7 NOTE7b NOTE7a 24 25 L7a CN7a CN7b 26 S8...

Page 32: ... Fig FA8 TO CF 25Pin GREEN WIRE TO CF 25Pin RED WIRE TO ANALOG 27Pin BROWN WIRE TO ANALOG 10Pin BLACK WIRE TO DIGITAL 11Pin WIRE TO LCD SUB 30Pin WIRE RED YELLOW DRAWING FOR WIRE ARRANGEMENT NOTE8 9 NOTE9 10 29 S9 30 S9 31 S9 ...

Page 33: ...OTE4e Refer to the Fig MO3 3 for attaching the LCD MODULE and LCD SUB BOARD ASSEMBLY NOTE4f Refer to the Fig MO3 4 for the wiring and the SPACER affix position zDestination of connectors Fig MO1 Fig MO2 1 2 3 4 GRIP BASE ROTALY UNIT COVER MONI ASSY LCD MODULE LCD SUB BOARD ASSY SPACER 3 S1 4 S2 SHIELD MONI 2 S3 SPACER 2 S4a S4a 3 S4b CN4 SD4a SD4b MO1 MO2 MO3 1 MO3 2 MO3 3 MO3 4 NOTE1a b NOTE3 NOT...

Page 34: ...4 BRACKET LCD SPACER LCD SUB BOARD ASSY FPC 4 BRACKET LCD REAR UNIT SPACER 13 S4b 12 S4a FPC 14 S4b 15 S4b 0 078N m 0 8kgf cm NOTE4b f NOTE4d e NOTE4c WIRE PINK WIRE WHITE WIRE PINK SD4a SD4b WIRE WHITE LCD MODULE LCD SUB BOARD ASSY NOTE4e B LIGHT B LIGHT CN4 WIRE NOTE4f SPACER NOTE4e ...

Page 35: ...ng NOTE9 When attaching be careful with the wiring NOTE10 When attaching place the 7pin wire under the OP FRAME ASSEMBLY zDestination of connectors Fig C1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 JOINT CASE ASSY LOWER CASE OP ASSY COVER POW ASSY UPPER CASE OP ASSY POWER UNIT STROBE UNIT SPEAKER MIC DIGITAL BOARD ASSY ANALOG BOARD ASSY OP FRAME ASSY C1 C2 C3 C3 C4 1 C4 2 C4 3 C5 C6 S1a S1b S1c S1b 5 S2 S3 S4 CN4a b...

Page 36: ...ig C4 2 5 S2 5 S2 6 S2 7 S2 8 S2 9 S2 6 S2 2 NOTE2b NOTE2b NOTE2a COVER SD BOTTOM VIEW COVER POW NOTE2a 10 S3 10 S3 11 S4 11 S4 3 CN4b CN4a CN4c CN4d 4 SPK WIRE MIC WIRE SPK WIRE NOTE4 FPC FPC 12 S5 13 S5 14 S5 15 S5 5 NOTE5 L5a L5b SPACER ...

Page 37: ...6 19 S6 20 S6 18 S6 19 S6 20 S6 21 S7 22 S7 23 S8 24 S8 NOTE8a NOTE8b NOTE7 NOTE7 8 COVER MIC FRONT SIDE It passes between ribs It passes between ribs It passes between ribs NOTE8b SPK WIRE SPK WIRE SPACER CN9c CN9c CN9a CN9b 25 S9 9 NOTE9 CDS BOARD ASSY 11pin WIRE 7pin WIRE NOTE10 CN10a CN10b 26 S10 27 S10 10 11 ...

Page 38: ...hen remove the CCD BOARD ASSEMBLY and the HEAT SINK CCD at the same time NOTE11d When replacing the CCD IMAGE SENSOR unsolder the fourty two soldered parts SD11a and remove the CCD BASE ASSEMBLY from the CCD BOARD ASSEMBLY Replace the CCD IMAGE SENSOR as a CCD BASE ASSEMBLY not as a single part replacement NOTE11e When attaching firmly attach the HEAT SINK to the HEAT SHEET with screws 7 Remove th...

Page 39: ...AT SINK CCD NOTE11e HEAT SHEET SD11a GASCKET HEAT SINK CCD HEAT SHEET 0 5mm or less HEAT SINK point is put together on here 0 088N m 0 9kgf cm 0 078N m 0 8kgf cm NOTE11h j NOTE11f g NOTE11f g AUTO IRIS UNIT SENSOR 12 S11e 13 S11e 14 S11f 15 S11f 16 S11f 17 S11f 18 S11g 19 S11h 20 S11h 11 S11e OP BLOCK ASSY FORCUS MOTOR UNIT ZOOM MOTOR UNIT PRISM ASSY SD11b ...

Page 40: ...Windows Color TV monitor Oscilloscope dual trace type observable 100MHz or higher frequency The one observable 300 MHz or higher frequency is recommended Digital voltmeter DC power supply or AC adapter Frequency counter with threshold level adjuster 4 1 3 TOOLS REQUIRED FOR ADJUSTMENT Torque driver Be sure to use to fastening the mechanism and exterior parts because those parts must strictly be co...

Page 41: ...ble and Jig connector cable when performing a PC adjustment Service support system To be used for adjustment with a personal computer Software can be downloaded also from JS net Jig connector cable Connected to JIG CONNECTOR of the main board and used for electrical adjustment etc Extension connector Connect this extension connector to the connector of the Jig connector cable for extending the cab...

Page 42: ...the setting value take it as a rough measurement reference value and tighten the screw manually The specified torque value is a recommended value of the initial assembly Therefore set the value below the specified torque value in the assembling procedure Be careful not to break either the screws or the screw holes ޓ a㧦 0 098N㨯m 1 0kgf㨯cm ޓޓ b㧦 0 059N㨯m 0 6kgf㨯cm ޓޓ c㧦0 039N㨯m 0 4kgf㨯cm ޓޓ d㧦0 069N...

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