Some of the pictures in this manual are a bit irritating. I had to dissassemble the unit and some of the screws have different threads, which is not mentioned in this manual. Also some of the drawings of the boards look different than the actual boards.
After all, the manual was very useful. I was able to recalibrate the capstan drive and it is working fine again.
This manual is very good. 303 pages scanned in a very high resolution. My camera has bad, leaking capacitors which all of the V5000 models are suffering from these days.
There is a huge part list with all capacitors, transistors etc. in this manual which helped me a lot. Otherwise I would not have been able to buy replacement parts.
The dissassembly guide is very enormous and detailed. Unlike on the Panasonic MS1 manual I downloaded here it actually looks like the real parts look. And the screws are labeled correctly, so you shouldn't have any left after the repair. ;)
good scans, all is clear. all pages in order. recommended
Text excerpt from page 10 (click to view)
Contents
The following is a summary of all the sections for understanding the contents of this manual. Section 13 Spare Parts and Optional Fixtures Describes the all service parts of the unit. Section 14 Semiconductor Pin Assignments Shows the external dimensions of the semiconductors used, and describes outllines of the function blocks and pin names of the ICs. Section 15 Block Diagrams Illustrates the block diagrams which show each board function and signal flow. Section 16 Schematic diagrams Shows the schematic diagrams of all circuit boards. Section 17 Board Layouts Shows the board layouts of all circuit boards.
