[NJBOB]

Hello,

I'm not a certified tech but I can follow a circut and solder. I also know how to use a Mutimeter.

This is my situation

 just bought a MC2205 that was droped on the face. Face plate was broken and most of the front controls were bent. broken fuse holder in back. I cleaned the unit up, wired back in a fuse holder took off the front plate and knobs sprayed the unit down. THe unit powered up. I hooked up a ipod for an input and some old bozak's the right chanel is perfect the left channel is distorded above .02 watts. Both meters work. When I disconnect the speaker from that chanel it reads .02 watts. When I go past that with a load the amp clips.
Does anyone have sugestions. I want to order parts tomrrow. I'm almost wondering if one of the swiches or pots up front is broken or grounding out and cousing this problem. Or is it just bad output transistors or a bad Output cap. I have a multimeter and can change switches or pots.
ANy sudgestions.

[sorenj07]

first of all, never disconnect the load (i.e. speaker) when the amp is on and playing music.  you might well blow something that way.  anyway, about the wattage, you can't measure watts off of a speaker (reactive load), you need to use a big power resistor (called a dummy load) and measure the voltage across its terminals to get VRMS.  as for the actual amplifier, if you post some pics of the wiring, that might get you somewhere.