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Lights were always on as I indicated in all of my posts and yes the compressor came on with the fans when I manually advanced the defrost timer.

steve

Jeff in quotation marks below is what I wrote in posts #1 & 6 of this thread.

"Here are my symptoms: I have AC power to compressor (all terminals of Relay and Overload Kit 4387913 show 115 VAC to...

Ok found the electrical schematic.

446

After looking at the schematic, problem traced to the defrost timer I was holding in the pic posted on previous page. It was humming but when I...

Did not buy this thing new so I don't have that diagram. Not at home now so cant check the chassis. Where are the schematics usually secured on the chassis? Any chance a short in one of the fans...

Can't see where I'm losing the power unless the relay is bad. Does it also control power to the fans? I ordered a Relay and Overload Kit (4387913) fm Amazon this evening along with a run capacitor....

Thank you,

Steve

Spending the better part of today troubleshooting this problem... pulled the fridge out to see if I could find an access panel on back to locate the motherboard. No luck. All sheet metal backing...

445Jeff,

Not being an electrical engineer I'm gonna guess that this means the hot side is connected at the wall plug and going to the relay but the neutral somehow has a break in it? Should I get...

Thank you Jeff for you quick reply this evening!

Ok I tested across the terminals of the relay and got no voltage and across each relay terminal and the overload terminal with same result. ...

Thanks for quick reply Jeff,

House uses breakers and none are tripped. Measured across relay and got no voltage. Measured from each terminal to overload terminal and still no voltage. I did get...

Hi Jeff, I'm a 56 year old Navy Mechanical Engineer and did my thesis on refrigeration, so I am somewhat familiar with these units and have performed other repairs (not on this unit): just short of...

This one's for Jeff or Roy Goetjen if he's moderating here.

We love our old Neptune washer (MAH4000AWW), had Roy rebuild my circuit board 6 years back after an overfill caused by electrical spike...