Neptune dryer

Dryer Repair
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Maytag Neptune dryer Model MDE5500AYW
The control panel is lit with a blinking start button, other buttons are also lit like the machine is ready. Pressing the start button does nothing. What should I be checking? Power is fine.

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Check for continuity the thermal fuse and the thermistor (10 & #8 at the [B]diagram[/B]) and post the results.

Gene.

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Gene said:
Check for continuity the thermal fuse and the thermistor (10 & #8 at the [B]diagram[/B]) and post the results.

Gene.
Thanks for your reply! I am not sure what the thermistor part is but part # 3072000 is closed, right by it the white part (can’t find a part number) is closed, part #3072080 is open. Does this part need to be jumper to test for other things?

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I don’t know where you found these part numbers. They both are incorrect.

Click on the link I posted for you earlier to open the diagram and see both parts location and part numbers.

Gene.

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I did click on the link to open the diagram and the parts are on the duct exhaust assembly. The number does correspond to the full repair parts list PDF for the Maytag Neptune dryer Model MDE5500AYW that I downloaded, except it does have an extra 0 on the end. Both diagrams are the same.
8 307208 THERMISTOR, TEMP. CONTROL It is open.
In the repair parts list 8 is also listed as 33002567 THERMOSTAT, CYCLING (LIMIT)
[10 33001762 FUSE, THERMAL (W’ BRACKET) in the motor drive section of both diagrams.] The white rectangular part that I have, is that the thermal fuse? It is closed.
The other part on that BLOWER HOUSING COVER is closed. The diagrams do not show this part.

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[SIZE=4]September 27trh, 2013[/SIZE]

[SIZE=4]Hello and Thanks again for this site,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]We purchased Maytag because while growing up, I heard they are the best. I expected my washer and dryer would be with us to death and beyond.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]I understand that nothing is perfect but if you are going to be a good product and you have commercials that say you are the best, then I expect the best. Every Maytag product that I bought has broken somehow or another. My dryer doesn’t work and my fridge doesn’t make ice. This is the second time I had a repair man over to fix this fridge. sigh We don’t have the $$$ to buy a new dryer. The money we save must go to a lawn mower, ya know?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]Now the dryer either turns on or not, and it won’t start. The control panel doesn’t work at all and it doesn’t run.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]The repair man for fridge looked at it and said that we mid-as-well purchase a new dryer. Well, I don’t want to. The parts are discontinued and Now I don’t know what to do. Any help would be appreciated and I am glad(kinda) to know I am not alone in this. Thanks for you posts about this matter everyone.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]Is there a UNIVERSAL control panel we can put in it so we won’t have to purchase another dryer. I would like to have them matching. What do we need to do, buy parts when we purchase our washer/dryers/Maytag anything so whenever they break down-I’ll have them on hand. I mean I mid-as-well buy generic things because they will break down?[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=4]Sincerely,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]Doreen (Dori)Pierce[/SIZE]