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Does it buzz and then go click? After about 3 minutes buzz again and go click? How old is it?

The newer refrigerators switch in the starting windings with a thermistor. When the thermistor disc cracks into several pieces it does not conduct the phase delayed winding to establish the rotating field to induce a current in the rotor so it just sits there and draws lots of current until the thermal protector on the motor switches off.

Don't let it do this too long.
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Old 11-30-2009, 10:11 PM
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