On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:38:40 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Feb 23, 7:23*pm, jJim McLaughlin
wrote:
RBM wrote:

SNIP



It would help if you could hang an ammeter on the circuit to see when the
element goes on and off. Off hand I would guess a faulty thermostat or
safety switch is shutting it down

Drum stops turning, heat goes off, all simultaneously, about 4 - 5
minuted after start buton is pushed.

It would still be good if you could put a voltmeter across the heat
limit swithc or whatever you think the problem might be. The meter
will show about zero when the dryer is working, and will go up to 220
volts across the limit switch if it is the limit switch which has
opened the circuit.

In fact you wouldn't even have to measure things while the dryer is
working, becaue you can assume all the voltages are right. But you
have a couple minutes or more to look for the open device in the
circuit after it turns off and before you are able to start it again.
You have however long it takes until you can start the dryer again.

It's a bad habit to just replace parts based on logic. Logic is great
but testing is better. (And whenever testing doesn't confirm what the
logic came up with, we always seem to be able to think of a new idea,
even if we couldn't before. "People are funny.")

Somebody repost this for me since jJim PLONKED me a while back...

Check the door safety switch or door clasp. I had a dryer that kept
shutting off because the door would get knocked slightly open by the
wet clothes and shut everything down. Then the door would close again
so everything looked normal when we would check it.

I had a glove compartment like that once.

The light inside ran the battery down every night, but when I was
testing, I would open it and shut the door well, or badly, whichever
it hadn't been, and my testing was all confused.