kenmore dryer motor

[lex]

Signed my husband up as I can't get to my Email on this computer. Same problem can't get the dryer to run. Power doesn't seem to be getting to the motor. Part # is 279787 whirlpool FSP This motor has the overload built in it but has the harness set up. When we check all the switches everything seems fine but all together they don't work. Any thoughts?

quote:Originally posted by FreeApplianceRepair

Your welcome,
If you have anymore questions please feel free to ask.
If you find the problem please post what you found so others can learn from it.

Thanks,

John@FreeApplianceRepair.com
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[FreeApplianceRepair]

If you could not see anything wrong you will have to start trouble shooting it with a meter to find the problem.

The first step in trouble shooting a dryer is to check the voltage were the cord goes into the dryer.

These are photo's from the back of a Maytag dryer so they will look different then the back of your dryer, but it's still the same wires and voltages.




To check the voltage to the dryer take your digital multi meter and put the probes on the outside wires of the dryer cord, as shown in the photo on the top. It should read right around 240 volts AC. Next measure the voltage from the center wire and one of the outer wire. You should have around 120 volts AC as shown in the photo on the bottom. The two voltage checks that we just did tells us if you have 240 volts AC to the dryer and if the neutral wire at the outlet is good. If you do not have the correct voltage to the dryer you need to check your fuses in the electrical box for the house.



Good luck


John@FreeApplianceRepair.com
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[FreeApplianceRepair]

Do you have a fuse box or breaker box for the house?

If a fuse box and you don't have a meter to check the voltage you could alway's just change the fuses (there's two for a dryer) and give it a try.

I once had a service call were the lady said she had a electrician check the power to the dryer and it was fine.

She was 75 miles away. I get there to find a bad fuse in the fuse box.
Between paying the electrician that did not know what he was doing and paying me she could have saved a lot of money by just replacing both fuses and trying the dryer again.

May not be your problem, but the only way to know for sure is to check it with a meter or if you have a fuse box for the house replace both fuses.

Let us know what you find.

John@FreeApplianceRepair.com
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[lex]

We will go and do another check but we have checked just about every connection top and bottom and everything seems to reading fine. Is there such a thing as getting a bad motor and how would one tell. Could you tell me what the sequence is to starting the dryer say for instance the start switch to the timer , door latch etc.

quote:Originally posted by FreeApplianceRepair

Do you have a fuse box or breaker box for the house?

If a fuse box and you don't have a meter to check the voltage you could alway's just change the fuses (there's two for a dryer) and give it a try.

I once had a service call were the lady said she had a electrician check the power to the dryer and it was fine.

She was 75 miles away. I get there to find a bad fuse in the fuse box.
Between paying the electrician that did not know what he was doing and paying me she could have saved a lot of money by just replacing both fuses and trying the dryer again.

May not be your problem, but the only way to know for sure is to check it with a meter or if you have a fuse box for the house replace both fuses.

Let us know what you find.

John@FreeApplianceRepair.com
www.FreeApplianceRepair.com

[lex]

Sorry forgot to add we have a breaker and have checked that.

quote:Originally posted by FreeApplianceRepair

Do you have a fuse box or breaker box for the house?

If a fuse box and you don't have a meter to check the voltage you could alway's just change the fuses (there's two for a dryer) and give it a try.

I once had a service call were the lady said she had a electrician check the power to the dryer and it was fine.

She was 75 miles away. I get there to find a bad fuse in the fuse box.
Between paying the electrician that did not know what he was doing and paying me she could have saved a lot of money by just replacing both fuses and trying the dryer again.

May not be your problem, but the only way to know for sure is to check it with a meter or if you have a fuse box for the house replace both fuses.

Let us know what you find.

John@FreeApplianceRepair.com
www.FreeApplianceRepair.com

[lex]

Mystery Solved! First of all I want to thank you for all your help.We had a couple of problems. At first I thought we had a bad motor. We didn't seem to be getting any power to it yet the readings were all good. I decided to run to Sears and get a thermosistor just in case. (The white one on the blower motor.) After putting it in the start button started working. Then I was going to put the old motor back in to see if it would work when I noticed that one of the blue wires was plugged into 6 instead of 4. On the old motor, there was an over load switch. On the new motor the overload switch is built in.
It was the blue wire that went from the overload on the side of the motor switch to the front left hand side. The harness plugged into the right hand side. I changed the blue wire and the motor spun like a top.

quote:Originally posted by FreeApplianceRepair

Do you have a fuse box or breaker box for the house?

If a fuse box and you don't have a meter to check the voltage you could alway's just change the fuses (there's two for a dryer) and give it a try.

I once had a service call were the lady said she had a electrician check the power to the dryer and it was fine.

She was 75 miles away. I get there to find a bad fuse in the fuse box.
Between paying the electrician that did not know what he was doing and paying me she could have saved a lot of money by just replacing both fuses and trying the dryer again.

May not be your problem, but the only way to know for sure is to check it with a meter or if you have a fuse box for the house replace both fuses.

Let us know what you find.

John@FreeApplianceRepair.com
www.FreeApplianceRepair.com

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[FreeApplianceRepair]

Glad to hear you got it going, Good Job!


John@FreeApplianceRepair.com
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