From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:104hi3p$341h1$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   Okay, all I think I feel putting my hand on the compressor in the dryer   
   is heat building up, and the vibration from the fan.  I seem to recall I   
   could feel the pump a little more aggressively doing its thing than   
   that.  I also didn't feel any temperature differential in the   
   refrigerant lines.   
      
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   The fairly inexpensive tool I find most useful for line voltage   
   troubleshooting is a clamp-on ammeter, since it measures through wire   
   insulation and shows if devices are drawing normal, abnormal or no current,   
   which voltage measurement doesn't.   
      
   This is a more expensive instrument that gives me almost X-Ray vision:   
   https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Thermal-Imaging-Camera-Rechargeable   
   dp/B0BGRS6JN4/ref=asc_df_B0BGRS6JN4?   
      
   It's excellent for revealing poor connections that heat up more than the   
   rest of the circuit and showing what's working and what isn't. I bought it   
   to find heat leaks in the house insulation. In cold weather it shows the   
   studs in the outside walls. I've read that they can reveal animals nesting   
   in the walls.   
      
   Going a step further, these plus voltage sensing can detect when something   
   isn't drawing the current it should.   
   https://www.amazon.com/Current-Sensing-Switch-Normally-Monitorin   
   /dp/B0BG4TRGQW/ref=sr_1_19?   
      
   I have one on my refrigerator, part of a project to make a sine wave   
   inverter turn on when the fridge wants it to and shut off the inverter and   
   its large DC idle current when the fridge turns off.   
      
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