Hello James. Lets see if I can walk you thru this,what we are going to test is your compressor since you have an ohmn meter first lets put it on the ohmns reading Ω ok unplug the unit. take that littlte cover off the side then take a small screwdriver and pry the overload and relay off the three pins sticking out of the side of the compressor.Ok there are three pins they should be in a triangle the top one is your nuetral then the two bottom ones are the start windings and the other is the run windings. take your red lead and put one of the bottom pins and the black lead on the other bottom pin so you are taking a reading from the start winding and the run winding.Ok you with me remember the triangle ok you got a reading across the two bottom pins that shouldnt have been over 12 ohmns ok now go from the top pin which is the neutral to the start winding ok whatever your reading is across the two bottom pins lets say its 10 thats perfect so from the top pin to either one of the bottom pins should be 5 and the other side from the top pin to the run winding should be 5 as well they have to be equal so if the reading is 10 like we said one side cant be 8 and the other side 2 do you see what I mean it should be really close if they are way off like 8 to 2 the windings in the compressor are bad you can also check the overload and relay put the ohmn meter on buzz so that when you touch the leads together you can hear it buzz stick the leads into the two bottom holes you should hear it buzz if not its bad I hope this helps. Thank You and Good Luck !