Quite chuffed with my skills today :)

Bought a Canon G7 off the bay for 15 quid, "untested" - worth a punt at that.

It arrived, I bunged a battery in, dead as a dead thing.

Bit of research online, found there is a generic fault (system design flaw) whereby a screw comes loose just under the top RHS - it usually shorts out the power board, either killing the board completely or blowing a sub miniature surface mount fuse.

This was the latter, and I bridged the fuse with some 1 amp fuse wire (the actual value of the fuse), some excruciatingly fine soldering there !

It works. Happy me, a 90 quid camera in my kit.

Bodger ;)

Nice one.

And a bit of thread lock on the screw to prevent it happening again!

Wayyyyy ahead of ya Peter :) Loctited.

Nice one.

Gonna IR it?

Might, its a VERY easy mod, and these take CHDK which allows shooting in RAW, but the superfine JPG is so good I might not even need RAW ;) Still not fully decided yet.