I had a repairman come in yesterday. Fridge was clicking and no cold air. Model GS6SHAXLT03. He said my compressor overload switch was bad. He replaced a switch and fridge started working. He said the part went bad because the compressor is going bad. It was drawing 2 amps (I read on the web, 2 amps is not all that bad). He said it might last a few days or hours and wanted $700 for new compressor + $90 for the switch. I think he was trying to soak me IMO so I said no. He took his switch out and handed me my defective one. He didn't put the switch back because I planned to get a new fridge. As it turns out the defective part is a "start dev" switch (PN2212194). The compressor overload relay is an entirely different part. I will order a new one to buy some time but there are 3 wires with connectors laying in the back. I don't know what wire goes on what terminal on the 'start dev' switch. There's a red one. One white that has a pigtail going to another switch. That switch has a blue wire that goes back to the dev start switch. So that's a red white and blue one. The dev start switch has 3 terminals, arranged like a triangle. There's one at the 12 o'clock position with no markings. The one at 9 o'clock is marked with "4" and the one at 3 o'clock is marked "1".
Thanks in advance
12 o'clock red...4 o'clock blue...3 o'clock white .( the white , has the smaller terminal )
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The red wire is the line wire , the blue is a cap wire (start) , the white wire (1 to cap , the other neutral run ) . This gives you a start capacitor operation . After the compressor starts , the blue wire is disconnected by the relay , letting the red and white wire , run the compressor .
9 o'clock blue ( sorry )
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Thanks for the assist.
I found the wiring diagram. I can see that the red wire is the "C" and gets wired to the top connector of the switch. Now I have 2 wires left over. 1 white one that has another wire piggybacked on it that goes to a capacitor. The output of the capacitor then goes back to the switch. I can see that the capacitor out goes to the start lead of the compressor but I don't know if that is the left or right terminal. Any way to determine which side of the switch I should wire the cap out to?
Thanks for all the info. I ordered the replacement part.
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