Check your e-mails, as info showing the fuse positions etc has been sent via DIRECT e-mail, as this should assist somewhat in making the task a bit easier.

Thank you for your reply. main charger got lost in the post after i forgot it at my mum's... bought an aftermarket charger from maplin as an emergency before my last trip with the camcorder. It did recharge the original battery, i was then able to tape 30 min of mountaineering over a 9 days period in Switzerland last month. got home, set to recharge the battery to download the tape onto my computer. charger did not recharge the battery and charger indicator didn't register battery. After the charge, the camcorder refused to power up. Note: it did power up at home before the charge. ordered a different charger with a spare battery from amazon. New charger recharged both old and new battery but still no life from the camcorder, on either battery. i did check the batteries with a voltmeter, both appear fully charged. So it looks like a small dismantle at the moment. Will try this weekend. Thanks again for your reply, remi

As you do not have the original charger / power supply then I am afraid dismantling is the only answer, as everything mentioned suggests that one of the eight internal "soldered in" fuses has blown, this not exactly an unknown thing to happen under the "just one of those things" banner, however the fact that you are using a third party charger would be a highly suspect possible reason for the problem. Unless you are acquaint at working on small pieces of precision equipment I would not advise attempting to access these fuses, however if you are then they are located on the main PC board just above the very right hand side vertical power socket, this having the power cables from the rear casing going into it. The main fuse and most likely one to have blown, being a "special" miniature 2amp 32 volt type.