00:00:00.130 --> 00:00:01.319 Oh, man. 00:00:01.319 --> 00:00:04.920 What such a nice, comforting sound. 00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:12.730 Now, all of the sudden, what's that buzzing sound? 00:00:12.730 --> 00:00:19.989 Not good, and it's feeling kind of warm in the fridge. 00:00:19.989 --> 00:00:29.080 I still have some ice cubes but it's like they're starting to melt. 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:38.710 I'm going to pull out the fridge and have a look. 00:00:38.710 --> 00:00:48.640 It sounds like the compressor is not starting. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:55.950 Okay, if you're hearing that sound and what it is is the compressor in the fridge has 00:00:55.950 --> 00:01:00.610 stopped running so you're going to want to unplug it, pull off the back panel here. 00:01:00.610 --> 00:01:04.989 This cardboard here is actually useful to the function of the machine, so you don't 00:01:04.989 --> 00:01:08.719 want to throw it away, or you don't want to tear it off, or anything like that. 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:13.210 You really do want to take the screws off and save it for putting it back on because 00:01:13.210 --> 00:01:17.920 it aids in the energy efficiency of the refrigerator. 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:22.479 So I'm going to pull out all of the screws here and then, we're going to look at what 00:01:22.479 --> 00:01:29.719 is the relay and the common start and run terminals on the compressor. 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:33.210 What I have is these starter packs. 00:01:33.210 --> 00:01:34.880 I'll be taking it out. 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:39.389 If you're taking care of multiple fridges, it's a good idea to keep some of these starter 00:01:39.389 --> 00:01:44.759 packs on hand in case the fridge goes down especially if you have multiple varieties 00:01:44.759 --> 00:01:46.429 of types of fridges. 00:01:46.429 --> 00:01:54.080 If you have all the same brand, you can kind of stock the correct capacitor relay for your 00:01:54.080 --> 00:01:56.569 fridges, and you can just change that. 00:01:56.569 --> 00:01:58.600 If not, you can use these starter packs. 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:00.630 The starter pack is kind of nice. 00:02:00.630 --> 00:02:06.799 It's a three-in-one starter pack, and they come in different horsepower sizes. 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:10.580 There's a one-third to one-fourth horsepower. 00:02:10.580 --> 00:02:12.860 It’s a common size. 00:02:12.860 --> 00:02:15.950 And, I find that works for older refrigerators. 00:02:15.950 --> 00:02:20.190 The black and the blue hot wires are another size. 00:02:20.190 --> 00:02:27.450 It's a one fifth to one twelth horsepower, and this works, in my experience, better for 00:02:27.450 --> 00:02:28.940 newer frigs. 00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:35.670 What I usually do is stock both of them and if I have a fridge that goes out, then I'll 00:02:35.670 --> 00:02:40.000 use the lower horsepower, one first, and I try that. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.490 And if that doesn't work then, go with the higher one. 00:02:42.490 --> 00:02:48.430 A lot of times, if the situation is kind of you've got nothing to lose, you can, again, 00:02:48.430 --> 00:02:54.220 get the DR manufacture design relay for these. 00:02:54.220 --> 00:02:59.900 But sometimes, in a situation where you don't want the food to spoil or you need it right 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:05.890 away, it's definitely nice to have these starter packs so you can get it going. 00:03:05.890 --> 00:03:08.810 The design on these is not that easy to get into. 00:03:08.810 --> 00:03:14.290 As you can see, it's pretty cramped quarters, pretty tight, a lot going on with the refrigerant 00:03:14.290 --> 00:03:22.680 tubing and everything, but it's enough to get in there and get it done. 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.320 The starter pack comes in two different sizes. 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:31.330 As I was telling you, those are the most common and generally, will get you through just about 00:03:31.330 --> 00:03:32.660 anything you come across. 00:03:32.660 --> 00:03:36.250 So again, I like to stock one of each here. 00:03:36.250 --> 00:03:43.000 I'm taking off the little clip that holds the compressor cover on, holds this capacitor 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:54.420 in place, and the wiring, the relay. 00:03:54.420 --> 00:03:57.100 There's the capacitor. 00:03:57.100 --> 00:04:02.470 Pull the capacitor out, and again, you could just replace that. 00:04:02.470 --> 00:04:06.630 I've had some luck here and there with relays for air conditioners where I've been able 00:04:06.630 --> 00:04:14.010 to smack the relay and put it back in, and then it work pretty much. 00:04:14.010 --> 00:04:21.329 I haven't had it go down since I did that, but I don't have that much hope for this one 00:04:21.329 --> 00:04:23.990 here. 00:04:23.990 --> 00:04:28.230 I went ahead and tried it here anyway, but of course, it didn't work out. 00:04:28.230 --> 00:04:29.700 But, it's me. 00:04:29.700 --> 00:04:30.700 Putting it back in. 00:04:30.700 --> 00:04:59.490 You'd think they'd tell you the horsepower rating on the compressor itself or inside 00:04:59.490 --> 00:05:01.190 the frig, but they actually don't. 00:05:01.190 --> 00:05:05.190 You really have to know what's going to work out for you. 00:05:05.190 --> 00:05:09.560 And like I said, on newer fridges, the lower horse powers tend to work out, the one twelve 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:16.210 to one fifth horsepower, the three-in-one starter pack; and for older fridges, the one 00:05:16.210 --> 00:05:17.660 third to one fifth. 00:05:17.660 --> 00:05:28.860 So again, you might start with a lower one and graduate to a higher one, if you didn't, 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:31.090 again, examining the capacitor. 00:05:31.090 --> 00:05:37.030 I should tell you a capacitor can hold the charge in it even after the power is disconnected. 00:05:37.030 --> 00:05:41.641 So, you may want to discharge the capacitor and definitely avoid touching the leads of 00:05:41.641 --> 00:05:44.670 the capacitor after it's disconnected. 00:05:44.670 --> 00:05:50.230 There are some capacitors that discharge through the motor windings, but I wouldn't leave that 00:05:50.230 --> 00:05:51.890 to chance. 00:05:51.890 --> 00:06:01.680 You can watch my video on how to discharge a capacitor if you want to. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:07.500 Well, it's not that easy to see, but there’s three posts on the compressor, the common, 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:10.919 run, and start post. 00:06:10.919 --> 00:06:16.890 Here is the wiring [inaudible 00:06:14]. 00:06:16.890 --> 00:06:21.310 This is your two power wires coming in. 00:06:21.310 --> 00:06:23.360 We'll be connecting those two. 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:28.300 We'll be cutting these off and wire stripping them, and connecting those to a three-in-one 00:06:28.300 --> 00:06:29.300 starter pack. 00:06:29.300 --> 00:06:41.080 And then, there's the three leads that'll go to the compressor itself. 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:45.880 Start in the run leads for the compressor will usually be right next to each other and 00:06:45.880 --> 00:06:48.880 then, the common will be by itself. 00:06:48.880 --> 00:06:51.120 It's usually in a triangle setting. 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.720 So the common is usually on top. 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:59.240 I think the common is a black wire. 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:05.250 The extra nut and the red wire will be the run; and most often, it's to the right of 00:07:05.250 --> 00:07:07.370 the compressor when you're facing it. 00:07:07.370 --> 00:07:10.910 I think they did that so people would kind of understand it. 00:07:10.910 --> 00:07:16.151 And if you couldn't read the common, run, and start on the compressor, that's what I 00:07:16.151 --> 00:07:18.930 would go with first on the refrigerator. 00:07:18.930 --> 00:07:23.150 And then, when you plug it in, if it buzzes and doesn't start, just go ahead and unplug 00:07:23.150 --> 00:07:27.600 it right away; and then, you might have to switch the wires on that. 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:34.530 This particular compressor, I could not see at all to tell the designation for the common, 00:07:34.530 --> 00:07:41.790 run, and start so I just did, again, the common, the black wire, to the one lead on top that 00:07:41.790 --> 00:07:43.460 was by itself. 00:07:43.460 --> 00:07:50.020 The red one, I did on the right side and then the start, which is sometimes the yellow wire 00:07:50.020 --> 00:07:53.199 or a white wire on the left side. 00:07:53.199 --> 00:08:08.340 This one gave me a bit of trouble putting the red run wire on. 00:08:08.340 --> 00:08:19.150 Again, this is all tight quarters and we want to be careful for sharp parts, and we want 00:08:19.150 --> 00:08:22.370 to avoid bending the refrigerant to the… 00:08:22.370 --> 00:08:26.090 Sometimes, you might have to move something out the way. 00:08:26.090 --> 00:08:32.580 Just, very gently, bend it, but you don't want to bend it back and forth. 00:08:32.580 --> 00:08:37.050 It's better not to bend it at all if you can. 00:08:37.050 --> 00:08:41.969 That was about my best view there of common, run, start terminals. 00:08:41.969 --> 00:08:48.420 Okay, so here is now our voltage lines coming in the power lines. 00:08:48.420 --> 00:08:54.560 On the old one, it was labeled red and blue, which red and blue are usually switch wire 00:08:54.560 --> 00:08:57.140 designations. 00:08:57.140 --> 00:09:03.050 For a switched wire, either red or blue, whereas black is usually your straight hot that's 00:09:03.050 --> 00:09:08.910 why I'm using wire strippers to cut it and strip them. 00:09:08.910 --> 00:09:12.040 It's a good idea to use wire strippers. 00:09:12.040 --> 00:09:20.410 It prevents taking out any strands of the wire and getting a nice clean stripping of 00:09:20.410 --> 00:09:25.390 the installation rather than taking some of the wires with it. 00:09:25.390 --> 00:09:30.870 Polarity is not an issue on this, so the blue or the red can go to either side of the starter 00:09:30.870 --> 00:09:38.820 pack as it really doesn't matter so… just delivering the power. 00:09:38.820 --> 00:09:39.820 Twisting the wires together. 00:09:39.820 --> 00:09:45.800 Again, when you're stripping off the wire, examine the cutoff pieces that you stripped 00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:52.140 off and make sure that there’s no wires strips left behind. 00:09:52.140 --> 00:09:59.360 If you've lost wire strands, make sure there's no strands left behind in the stripped off 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:06.880 portions because if your wire strands get stripped off, it can become a place where 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:11.050 heat will built up too strongly, and it can burn the wire there. 00:10:11.050 --> 00:10:12.959 Anyway, I'm twisting the wires together. 00:10:12.959 --> 00:10:17.070 You can use a wire connector to link them together. 00:10:17.070 --> 00:10:20.200 They used to be called wire nuts. 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.590 These days, they're called wire connectors. 00:10:23.590 --> 00:10:29.510 I'm searching for one here. 00:10:29.510 --> 00:10:35.170 Just twist right on. 00:10:35.170 --> 00:10:39.880 And, you can kind of give the wires a tug to make sure it's not going to pull out on 00:10:39.880 --> 00:10:40.880 you. 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:46.450 But as long as you twist it together and the wire nuts are threaded on, you're generally 00:10:46.450 --> 00:10:47.760 good to go. 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:55.350 Now, we're ready to plug it in and check it out. 00:10:55.350 --> 00:11:02.540 Hey, nice, beautiful sound. 00:11:02.540 --> 00:11:08.600 It's doing what it's supposed to do. 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:12.180 The compressor started right up. 00:11:12.180 --> 00:11:15.590 I could have probably put this back together first but I kind of wanted to verify that 00:11:15.590 --> 00:11:16.590 everything was good. 00:11:16.590 --> 00:11:24.339 It's probably not a really good idea to be handling it with the power on, and you definitely 00:11:24.339 --> 00:11:32.649 don't want to put it back in there with the power on; just too tight, and of course, the 00:11:32.649 --> 00:11:34.142 fan-rate spinning and everything else. 00:11:34.142 --> 00:11:35.142 You don't want to become crispy fried. 00:11:35.142 --> 00:11:38.610 You don't want to be blended either so you will not blend. 00:11:38.610 --> 00:11:47.390 Anyway, it's up to you to find a creative spot to hang this on. 00:11:47.390 --> 00:11:53.460 It's got this little clip on the side of it that lets you anchor it but again, not always 00:11:53.460 --> 00:11:55.540 an easiest thing to find a spot. 00:11:55.540 --> 00:11:57.839 I guess I was able to tuck the wiring around. 00:11:57.839 --> 00:12:04.450 I was actually able to hang it right on the compressor top cover itself which actually 00:12:04.450 --> 00:12:07.410 [inaudible 00:12:04] worked out perfect. 00:12:07.410 --> 00:12:11.950 The nice thing with that clip being anchored on there is that if you do have to move the 00:12:11.950 --> 00:12:19.060 fridge in the future, the whole deal isn't just going to be hanging down where it can 00:12:19.060 --> 00:12:20.060 get munched. 00:12:20.060 --> 00:12:22.339 So now, it's clipped on. 00:12:22.339 --> 00:12:25.779 And now, we're ready to put everything back 00:12:25.779 --> 00:12:27.930 We put the cover back on. 00:12:27.930 --> 00:12:32.100 And this cover is important to the function of the machine. 00:12:32.100 --> 00:12:35.529 It's probably a good idea, while this was apart, to blow it all out, to clean it all 00:12:35.529 --> 00:12:39.620 out, but I'll leave that for another story. 00:12:39.620 --> 00:12:40.970 Here is another look at that capacitor. 00:12:40.970 --> 00:12:45.610 And, if you wanted to use this three-in-one starter for a temporary fix and then, order 00:12:45.610 --> 00:12:48.290 the correct capacitor, you could do that. 00:12:48.290 --> 00:12:51.090 I've had pretty good luck with these starter packs. 00:12:51.090 --> 00:12:55.670 And that compressor, it could just be that that compressor is just having such a hard 00:12:55.670 --> 00:13:02.110 time starting that it really needs the extra hard start kit that's in the starter pack, 00:13:02.110 --> 00:13:03.970 so it really depends. 00:13:03.970 --> 00:13:11.320 Again, I've got really good fortune using these, and haven't had one go down after I 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:12.320 installed it. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.300 So, I'm just going to leave one in place. 00:13:15.300 --> 00:13:20.720 Again, I can take the capacitor back and I could order that relay for that capacitor 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.200 but I'm not too worried about it. 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.320 Put everything back together. 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.880 If you had your fridge plugged in, it's a good idea to wait about five minutes so putting 00:13:28.880 --> 00:13:32.920 this cover back on is just perfect before plugging it back in. 00:13:32.920 --> 00:13:36.880 The five minute wait will allow the compressor’s pressure to equalize. 00:13:36.880 --> 00:14:08.040 Otherwise, the compressor might not start if you plug it in too early. 00:14:08.040 --> 00:14:55.509 Now, we're ready, and there we go.
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