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4 things to test on a dryer

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This project provides a step-by-step guide on how to diagnose common reasons why an electric clothes dryer might not start. It covers checking the power supply, testing the thermal fuse, inspecting the start switch, and verifying the functionality of the door safety switch using a multimeter.

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Is your dryer not starting? Check these four things. Let's get after it. First thing you want to do is take our multimeter, put it to volts. This squiggly line right here represents that it's AC. With our two prongs here, you're going to go ahead and you're going to touch these to here and you should get 240 volts. 240, call that 240. Go ahead and unplug your dryer. So, the next thing to check would be your thermal fuse and we can hear the beep. What this part does is it prevents your dryer from getting too hot and catching on fire. If this doesn't beep, go ahead and replace this and clean out your dryer vent. Now, we can go ahead and we can test our start switch. And that beep indicates that we have continuity on the switch. We can also check our door safety safety switch here. I went ahead and I removed the door safety switch and now we can test these two terminals. Now, this switch shouldn't beep until I press it in. Ooh, what's with that delay? So, I was over here messing with this. Noticed that the case wasn't closed all the way. So, if I just go ahead and I just close this case all the way and now this switch works perfectly. Anyways, I got some laundry to do. I'll catch you guys later. Peace.

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