Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 1:46:39 AM, Mike Geary wrote: MG> Ah ha! Yes, you've got a sick dog there, Lady. It's probably your MG> compressor overheating and cutting off on an internal overload. That could MG> be due to a very dirty condenser coil or a seized fan motor -- that's MG> assuming the condenser coil is beneath the unit and cooled with a small fan MG> rather than a static coil on the back of the unit. But usually there's very MG> little cooling if that's the case. If the box pulls down to temp, then MG> starts warming up, I think it was doing that. It's now refusing to do anything but hum. I think it's an ex-puppy. MG> more likely you have a very small electrical short across MG> the compressor motor coil that's causing the compressor to overheat after MG> running for a little while. You would need a megohmmeter to verify that. MG> If that's the case, kill the dog and get a puppy from the pound. They do MG> have dog pounds in England, don't they? I rather think it is dog pound time... yes MG> God it's fun to show off. Call on me, teacher! Call on me! Now about my gas cooker.. :-) -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html