My dryer has power, the inside lights are working, the control knob lights work, but when you push the control knob button, the dryer does not start. The dryer makes no noise when the button is pushed. The lint filter is clear and the lint filter is cleaned before every load. The dryer dried the clothes properly on the last load.
Here are your parts
http://www.appliancepartspros.com/partsearch/modelsearch.aspx?model=MDET446AYW
Here is the tech sheet and the manual
[http://www.servicematters.com/maytag_library/docs/16026315.pdf](http://www.servicematters.com/maytag_library/docs/16027523.pdf"]http://www.servicematters.com/maytag_library/docs/16027523.pdf[/URL]
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Try to run the diagnostics perhaps this will give a clue to the cause.
Could be the thermal fuse has blown Item 6 in Section 1.
Unplug the unit and check it with a meter, should be 0 ohms.
Be sure to unplug one side of it when checking it.
If it is blown you have to find out what caused it to go.
Note: that sometimes they do just blow on their own but changing it without checking other things is a gamble.
Check the heating coil.
Unplug the unit and both wires to the coil.
Check it with a meter, should be around 11 ohms.
Then check from each side of the coil to the case/frame, both should be infinite ohms (open). If not the coil may have sagged or broken and is touching the case. This can cause it to run on high and the thermostats cannot regulate it.
If the above is OK then you will also have to replace the hi-limit as it should have regulated the temperature so the fuse did not blow.
You still have to find out why it blew.
Check that the belt is OK.
Check the seals (drum etc) in the unit. The air is pulled over the heating coils, through the drum and pushed out the exhaust. So any large seal leak will pull in room air and the cycling thermostat on the blower will run the unit hot.
Check that the lint filter is not coated with fabric softener residue which greatly reduces air flow.
Check/clean your vent system.
Check/clean the blower wheel.