Feeling chuffed today!
Bought this non-working unit (Please Wait syndrome) on ebay for £4.20. Traced fault to single ELNA electrolytic C5712 on SMPS board marked 10uF/50v/105 deg C but measured 2.2uF. Replaced with 10uF/50v from old TV board and now working perfectly!...

Re: Panasonic SC-BT230 Blu-ray Home Cinema

Hi midsomerjambo,
From memory, I just started disconnecting parts of the circuit until the fault (luckily) disappeared. I didn't see any signs of bad components. When I put it back together in the same order, checking for the fault at every step, the fault did not re-appear. If you remove the connectors to the BD drive, you will probably find the fault is still present but it would lead you to isolate the fault further step by step.
Regards,
Andrew.
P.S. my wife likes Midsomer Murders!

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Hi midsomerjambo,
Could you follow what I did? - dissemble the unit & re-assemble. The user guide gives PLEASE WAIT
≥ The unit is carrying out an internal process.This is not a
malfunction. You cannot operate the unit while “PLEASE
WAIT” is displayed.
I got a very good service manual for the BT230 from the BADCAPS site.
If you're not able to take the unit apart and you can get the unit to Northamptonshire then I could have a go as I like doing this sort of thing in my spare time,...

Re: Panasonic SC-BT230 Blu-ray Home Cinema

I took my BT230 completely apart, cleaned up all the parts with a clean paint brush including the fan which was caked in dust and carefully put it back together, checking each stage if the F61 error still existed. It never came back and is all working perfectly. I'm still testing it with higher volumes of sound to see if it might fail. Guess I was lucky!

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Hi tw2005,
That's a very useful service manual for the Panasonic SC-BT230 Blu-ray Home Cinema and I'm using it to find the similar fault on my SA-BT230 system - F61 error, which does not happen when the link cable from the main board to the amplifier board is disconnected. Do you have access to a service manual for my SA-BT222 Blu-ray Home Cinema or can tell me where I might purchase one. My system (1 of 4 own) has a U73 error associated (I think) with the main processing board. Thanks for your help, Regards,Andrew Rogers.

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At last I re-discovered this thread. I've just joined BADCAPS and hope to fix my SA-BT230 which has exactly the same problem. The error F61 points to the amplifier board and I have also tracked the problem to the ribbon connection as highlighted in you photo. When disconnected, the main unit stays on. I've dis-assembled the whole unit and will now look for bad caps or other faulty parts. Looking forward to reading the rest of the thread and will feed back any results - Thanks, Andrew....

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