My father owns a bar, and one of his reach-in coolers was not working. I looked at it, and found the power wire was open. I replaced the wire, the unit came on and all was good. The next day he called and said it wasnt working agin. I looked at it and found the fans were running and the compressor would run for about 3 seconds then shut off for about 2 mins. The compressor is very hot, and the fans do not shut off.
Any thoughts? I was at first thinking the capacitor was bad, but now thats just not making sense. Possibly lost the charge?
The compressor is located in the basement below the cooler. It is sealed hermetic.