My GE Side by Side has been giving me some issues lately. The unit would work just fine then suddenly the refrigerator would stop cooling. When I would figure this out I would check things out and just as suddenly as it quit it would start up again and be fine. I just assumed that I must have left the door open and all would be well.

Today was different. The unit was working fine last night and this morning I got up to find all of my stuff was defrosted and the refrigerator unit was barely cool. I pulled the unit from the wall and found out that the condenser fan was working but the compressor was not. Others on this forum have mentioned that a relay was clicking on their unit when this happened but mine is not.

The compressor is at room temperature so it has not been running for a while. I assume the problem is the start relay but I do not have any schematics or even a trouble tree to know what to look at next. I did inspect the mother board and there is not any evidence of a burned component there.

What do I try next and can someone out there point me to a schematic so at least I can trace the wiring and find a solution

Thanks
Bob

Ok, I pulled the mother board... everything looked fine, no cold solder joints or burns anywhere. Reinstalled mother board and the unit started up.

Now I am worried... maybe there was a bad connection at the mother board but given the condition that the mother board was in and there was not any evidence of corrosion or anything like that, I find that hard to believe.

If anyone has experanced a simular problem, please let me know what the solution was.