When you push the start button, drum does not turn. Dryer is making a humming noise but drum is not turning
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That is a bad sign. If the buzzing starts when you press the start button and stops when you release its almost safe to say that the motor has a dead short or grounded out and causing that to happen. You can check the start switch by getting a multimeter and with the dryer unplugged take the wires off the switch, place a lead on each pin and press the start with meter set for continuity. If it shows continuity when presed and stops when released your motor is shot and needs to be replaced.
Now if you press the start button and the machine starts to hum and continues to hum its possible that something has gotten caught in the blower wheel and binding the motor up. Depending on the make and model the location and access to it vaaries.
If you can turn the drum and then the dryer starts you have a bad motor. The way the dryer works is when you initially push the start button, electricity is sent to the start winding, or stator, of the motor. This will in turn start the motor turning. From there the stator will drop out of the electrical process and at the same time the run winding, or rotor, will take over and the motor will continie to run. Your stator is damaged, has a burn spot, etc so by you turning the drum, the belt around the drum is moved which is attached to the motor pulley. You basically take the place of the stator. Long story short, you have a bad motor.
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Posted on Jun 06, 2012
SOURCE: Dryer drum will not turn
Try pushing start button while turing drum clock wise and see if drum will start spinning, sounds like bad start winding or relay
Posted on Sep 17, 2007
SOURCE: Dryer has power but drum want turn
check to make sure that nothing is stuck in the blower wheel if nothing is caught then you need a new motor
Posted on Dec 20, 2008
SOURCE: Dryer has trouble starting and makes a deformed hum sound
your motor is going bad.
Posted on Mar 08, 2009
SOURCE: When start button is pushed, hums but does not run. Drum does not turn. Belt is okay
It sounds like it is the motor or a stuck/obstructed blower wheel. You can start by opening the door, push the door switch in, hit the start button & see if you can turn the drum clockwise by hand. This might get it going. if the drum does not move by hand then the problem is probably within the blower. post your findings for a follow up
Posted on May 01, 2009
SOURCE: press the start button on dryer, it hums but wont
Sounds like a weak motor. You'll have to get a new motor installed. They are fairly inexpensive and easy to install yourself on that type of machine if you are handy. Motor is located in the bottom right of the machine, attached to the drum belt through a small pulley underneath the drum next to the motor.
Posted on Dec 27, 2009
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