Took me 8 years to figure out I was checking compressor windings wrong

Started when a Frigidaire fridge kept tripping the breaker. I checked resistance between all three terminals, saw open line on the run winding, and ordered a new compressor. Got the replacement in, same damn reading on the bench, then I noticed the thermal overload was still in the circuit. Took the overload out and it read fine. My old mentor in Phoenix never mentioned disconnecting the relay assembly, and I'd been fooling myself this whole time. Has anyone else gotten burnt by testing through the overload?

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ryan7931mo ago

Man that overload tricked me for years too. Solidarity, dude.

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ericcraig1mo ago

Watched @ryan793 get burned by that same overload, cost him a whole weekend rebuilding.

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