How to Install a Universal Relay (3 n 1 Starter) on your Compressor

hi guys my name is Bill and I want to do a little video on three-in-one start capacitors for your compressor alright so here's the three-in-one start capacitor basically it has five wires two wires are gonna power the thing these are the wires that Hope used to hook up to your old relay you're just gonna cut the plug off your old real a wire nut these on they actually supply with two wire nuts for that the other three wires are going to connect to the pins on the side of your compressor and there's even a little diagram on here on the actual relay itself and also on the back of the package so I'm gonna hook this up real quick I'm gonna show you how to do it alright so here we go no now you'll notice on the top you have three wires coming out of one side and two wires the two black wires coming out of the other side now there are three black wires this is so you don't take this black wire and hook it up like that and it's pretty pretty self-explanatory your two powers coming out one side let three the Goodley compressor coming out the other side and if you follow the diagram your pins make a little triangle so to the far left is gonna be your white wire and then the center is gonna be the black and I'm showing you on this compressor that's not in a refrigerator because when the compressor is actually on the refrigerator to paint on the but and I'm not gonna try to show you on camera cuz it'll be too hard to see so basically that's what it's gonna look like when it's hooked up now what you do with this is you find a place behind your refrigerator that's not going to interfere with anything and zip tie it in place so it's out of the way now this compressor here does not start I don't know why it was brand new must have got dropped or something's wrong with it but I'm gonna try to start it with this 3 and this 3 m1 and see if the overload inside does its job and clicks off alright so I got everything set up I got my clamp on hand meter to see what kind of amp draw now these will pull about 10 amps whenever they try to start and then once they start now this one here with no load show run like point five amps but we'll see what happens it's drawn 9 amps right now and that imagine something is definitely wrong with that compressor see how long it rolls 9 amps before something happens alright so I was about six minutes into waiting for the overload on this to click off when this compressor wouldn't start and nothing happens smoke started coming out of here it was still drawn 7 amps so what I'm gonna do is see what gives I'm gonna pinch the shut so it doesn't actually shoot flames out of here if that's even a thing that can happen I'm not sure never never tried it before so I'm gonna pinch these shut to cut down on the oxygen they can get down inside there like it was on your refrigerator and I want to see what gives out first the compressor or the three-in-one now I will tell you that I use these for testing purposes if I'm at a customer's house or something like that I it's I don't I don't believe that they're meant to be permanent I mean they say they're there for this but I've never actually just left them on there though they'll get you by in a pinch these are 15 bucks this will tell you if your compressor is actually going to run and run up one amp like it's supposed to but usually this is just a temporary fix until you get the actual OAM parts and stuff like that but this is like a cheap instead of spending 50 60 bucks or $70 whatever the factory relays cost to actually see if your compressors going to fire up spend the 10 or 15 bucks on one of these to test it and if it does fire up then spend the money to permanently fix your machine but I was always told never to leave these on so now I'm going to find out if this is going to burn or if that's going to burn you okay so after about thirty minutes and a whole bunch of steam coming out of the compressor the compressor lost the battle between the capacitor three in one star capacitor and then the compressor well what was going to give out first so I mean after seeing what happened how hot the compressor god I mean it was hot that I couldn't touch it but I don't think anything would have caught on fire the three-in-one after 30 minutes to draw in about 6 amps it was warm that was it if any of you guys know more about the 3m one by all means put in the comments I'm kind of curious to see what I don't know about those I mean I don't know a whole lot so anything that I learned from you guys is of course helpful to me to pass on to somebody else but after saying that I don't see why you couldn't leave one of those on on your refrigerator because obviously the 3m one nothing's really going to happen with that even with a shorted compressor and as far as the compressor catching on the fire I really doubt that that's going to happen but I'm interested to see what you guys have to say in the comments and thanks for watching you

Channel: Bill Newberry

Views: 974,464

Keywords: compressor, refrigerator, how to, replace, fix, troubleshoot, diagnose, maytag, frigidaire, whirlpool, 3 n 1, hard start

Id: RamyqjqeLXA

Length: 5min 57sec (357 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 18 2014