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« on: January 18, 2010, 03:32:41 pm »

I have an 81 and when it is powered on I hear a click click sound and the compressor does not kick on. It was working but now this is all that happens. Any ideas?
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« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2010, 08:32:01 pm »

Your compressor is drawing too much current for some reason & the over-current "Klicit" (an over-current & over temperature circuit-breaker built into the start-run relay area of were the electrical lines enter the compressor on its side. ) is cutting out to prevent it from over heating.

Why?
A)the compressor is starting to seize up.
B) the compressor is over heating due to a defective cooling fan or blocked air-flow through the condenser coils ( dust bunny's plugging the fins) OR it may be over heating because of a low charge of freon due to a leak ( a compressor uses the freon to transfer it's motors heat into the air-flow by dumping it (the heat) into the high pressure gas going to the condenser coils this way as well as the metal case of the compressor itself).

C) a defective overtemp/current "Klicit" or start-run relay itself. or a loose electrical connection(s) on the relay itself.

D) it just doesn't like you.  tounge

The attached picture is from a Vendo V-110 but you'll see that it has all the basic components to help you identify them on your compressor.
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2010, 08:04:52 pm »

Thanks for the information, I will check the connections and clean them up and try it. It was working one day and literally stoped the next.
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2010, 08:09:13 pm »

More likely it's the start-run relay is bad.
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