Maytag MFD2561KES not cooling again

Refrigerator & Freezer Repair
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hello,

  1. i have the maytag MFD2561KES that failed to cool again like a few months ago.
    2. i bought the compressor relay with capacitor and it fixed the issue for a month but now it failed the same way.
    notes:
  2. it does sound the buzzing like before too for about 10 sec every 2 minute or so.
    2. i noticed that before it failed like a few months ago, the water stops to dispense.
    3. the ice maker takes a long time to produce ice.

please help.

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any idea anyone?

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You probably have a hard starting compressor. Remove the back panel and check the compressor, if very hot, you either have a system problem, clogged condenser, or a failing compressor, an amprobe and guages would confirm.

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hi richappy,

Can you provide some pointers so that I can order parts for a DYI?
What can I do to sort out whether this is :
[LEFT][COLOR=#000000]system problem, clogged condenser, or a failing compressor?
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I have no amprobe and but have a multimeter . I have taken some measurements between the relay /overload with capacitor between the old and new one and observed no noticeable difference when measuring resistance between C/S/R terminals.

And so I cannot conclude that this is a relay issue .Unless there is new one out there that can help alleviate this issue.

thanks

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Give us the part # you replaced, It may have failed.

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Whirlpool Overload / Relay With Capacitor 67005560

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added the picture of the part that I replaced.
Could this replacement part also bad. Man, what a bad luck if indeed it really is
overload.jpg (29.3 KB)

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Pull off the start device. There are a triangle of compressor round pins on the device. The bottom two pins are the start and run pins. Measure across them, resistance should be between 4 and 7 ohms at room temperature. If open, the internal ptc device blew open. If so, get a new one and add a 1000 joule surge protector to the wall outlet, if good, your compressor is probably bad.

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Pull off the start device. There are a triangle of compressor round pins on the device. The bottom two pins are the start and run pins. Measure across them, resistance should be between 4 and 7 ohms at room temperature. If open, the internal ptc device blew open. If so, get a new one and add a 1000 joule surge protector to the wall outlet, if good, your compressor is probably bad.

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so you are saying , if the PTC is bad, I can replace it:
questions:
How does the PTC look like? Ist attached to the compressor ?is it easy to remove ? do you know the part number for that PTC for the refrigerator I am having issues with?

thanks again

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It’s inside the black start device you used, just pry it off and do the measurement.

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so I measured the resistance between the bottom pins s-r:
12.5 ohm

and between
s-c= 5.6 ohm
r-c= 4.2 ohm

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Measure between the bottom two pins on the START DEVICE, not the compressor.

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So I took some measurments as suggested:

start -run =12.5 ohm
start-C= 4.5 ohm
run- C= 5.6 ohm

Can you help conclude?

thanks

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oops. repost, I will take the measurement on the start device and report later

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Remove the start device from the compressor. There is a triangle configuration of pins with two of them side by side, measure the resistance between them, if open, you have a bad start device, just order a new one on this site.