So when I wired up the right channel amp, it blew the fuse.. well hell.. I ended finding a short from a tiny piece of wire extending between pads that I missed after redoing the bias transistor install. I think thats it.. I have go buy some more fuses since I'm out right now. But, I wanted to check the power transistors and I had read some of Steven Tate's adventures with his 2245 so I decided to check the placement very carefully. I had taken pictures before taking anything apart and I had put the new transistors back as they came out.. which as it turns out was wrong :/ I'm not surprised given the rest of the work I have found on this system. According to the schematic and how the offset transistor sockets work out, NPN is on top, and PNP is on the bottom.. on BOTH sides. My right channel amp was backwards. PNP on top and NPN on the bottom. So, since I had everything apart to fix the short I found, I went ahead and swapped the transistors which tested good on the bench out of the circuit. I may have dodged a blown transistor by accident here with the short taking out the fuse before the protection circuit was enabled. I got off base because the LEFT channel was wrong when I took it apart. When I took the boards apart, I had used blue tape and marked NPN, PNP to keep track. At some point, I got the left side correctly wired up but didn't check/correct the right side. I just matched my tape .. dumb.
So note to self.. Don't trust what you see.. always verify ... I feel like a dope since I know better. But on to a better day assuming the fuse doesn't blow and no magic smoke gets loose.
The source of all evil in my 2245
Someone had put the left channel 2514 ( PNP) on top when it should have been the 2513 ( NPN). This was verified by tracing the wires from the socket back to the board and checking the pin numbers
The correct way which of course, I missed :/
These are the pictures from the start.. I'll put up some once I get the right channel straightened out and both are wired back into the chassis.