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Hi, I'm from Germany and I have bought an US Amps Merlin MD-23 Amp on Ebay earlier this year. I never opened it because I didn't have time to work on my car. Today I finally wanted to look inside my new Amp and I was shocked. On the Packaging Box and the Chassis it says MD-23 but on the Board it says MD-22. So I guess I was deceived by the Ebay seller. But I wanted to be sure, so is there any attribute that could tell for sure which Amp I do have here? I'm looking forward to any reply you can give me =) Greets Eric

They're not the same, just the Board layout seems to be almost identical. For power specs look into this Thread and scroll down: Link

I removed the ground and all screws on the board. What do you mean by transistor clamps? A German Forum Member said that there were MD-23 Amps produced with a MD-22 labeled board. He said that that in the MD-23 there were used brown capacitators which have another colour than the MD-22 capacitators and green coloured load resistors instead of red ones. I'm not sure about it, but you might be right that I got scammed. Isn't there any attribute that can tell me for sure? Any part on the Board that is only used on the MD-23?

This is my Amp: Pic1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic4 And these Are The only other Pics I found on the internet: MD23 This one's of the 22, but in the Forum Post it says that he modified something, might not be useful MD22