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Our station had just been sold and the new company decided to go with Panasonic rather than stay with Sony cameras for the news dept.
So, one day one of the new ($17K) cameras comes in blowing fuses on the huge Anton Bauer batteries. Believe they were 20A fuses.
Dead short on the DC bus in the camera.
Since the camera was just out of the 1 year warranty, the CE decided to just send it to Panasonic service and "maybe" they would honor the warranty and fix it for free.
They wouldn't, and said the short was in the imager block and would cost $6K to fix. We requested they return the camera un-repaired and they did.
So, late one night after late news, they brought the camera in to the shop, with a known working camera, and I started swapping parts.
At about 1:30AM I found the problem. It was a short in the gigantic flex circuit that winds thru the camera.
I emailed the CE and he instructed me to order the $106 replacement flex immediately.
I had never had this problem with any of the Sony cameras that we had.
The Panasonic cameras were cheaper than the Sony's. The Sony's were about $25K a piece. So, I guess you get what you pay for.