Refrigerator Start Relay
About 13 years ago, I picked up a Magic Chef MCWC50DBT 50-bottle wine cellar from Home Depot ($249). It’s worked more or less reliably ever since (June of 2018, I did have to put in a new main control board (and, as a result, swap the incandescent lighting module with an LED replacement ), but a couple of days ago I started hearing a distinct “click” I’d never heard before, and as I monitored it day to day, I saw the temperature slowly rising. A little bit of Google-fu lead me to check the start relay (mounted to the side of the compressor): Sure enough, continuity was intermittent and occasionally when I shook it, I heard a light rattle inside. I found a replacement part (LG Electronics 6748C0004D 6748C-0004D Refrigerator Start Relay P6R8MD) on eBay (after verifying with the seller that it would work; the part number visible on the listing wasn’t an exact match for the piece I’d removed), and a couple of days later, installed it. Works perfectly. Everything fired right up and withi