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Greetings all, hoping you can offer some advise to a newbie (really I don't know anything about amps) So I found a cute little amp in the trash and it followed me home, an old solidstate garnet stencil amp. It looks like it's based on an lm380n ic, so from what I can tell that's 2.5 watts of gut wrenching power!!

k, here's my really newbie question.... I think it must have gotten wired up to a second external speaker at some point, because coming off the board I have a white wire connecting to the white wire of a speaker in a pretty ugly fashion... but speakers have two wires, and I'm not sure where to connect the other one.  :duh I've looked at the board and don't see an obvious signs of 'wire goes here'. any really obvious suggesting off the bat I don't know about? I can post pics of specific areas/parts etc, if that would help too.

My thought is, check it's unplugged, and just start toying with locations for the other wire till it goes.  My fear is that every amp page out there has big flashing warnings of doom...  but at 2.5 watts do I really need to have any concerns? Can i just "try, plug it in, unplug, try again, repeat" till it makes some noise?