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kenmore elite fridge - no power

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hi, woke up to new power to my fridge. outlets getting 120v. compressor was hot to the touch. i unplugged for 20 mins, nothing. the control board had no light indicator. the fridge came with a hard start kit, start and overload protector in one. any idea why im not getting any power? 

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if there are no lights on the control board I'd be testing it, but the hot compressor and it not running does sound like a blown up compressor as well what it really sounds like is you had a power surge/brown out and it blew up the refrigerator

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12 hours ago, dfphoto said:

if there are no lights on the control board I'd be testing it, but the hot compressor and it not running does sound like a blown up compressor as well what it really sounds like is you had a power surge/brown out and it blew up the refrigerator

so the control board actually fried. i resoldered the part that was fried, and the fridge worked for a second then it fried again. complete loss of power. i've no idea what would cause it to fry like that. would it be a bad compressor or 3 in 1 start kit that would cause that? i wonder the electrical path.. i know that when it worked fro a second the fridge light was on, and i wonder if it tried starting the compressor right away , or the hard start kit tried to start the compressor and maybe the comrpessor is seized and the electrical load mostly bypassed the compresor and went straight to the board? sorry im a noobie to this. 

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You can test the compressor by watching a YouTube video but you have to determine if you have an inverter compressor or regular compressor. Check to see if it's grounded. Plus you could have something at the board shorted or the defrost element/heater. Anything ac voltage is possible. If fans are ac voltage it could be a fan or possibly a wire shorted. Try to be as non evasive as possible because you may accidentally fix the issue moving around things especially if it's a wire. Ideally testing at the board would be best.

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