Contactor Troubleshooting

A few questions → ranked causes → the exact meter checks and steps.

Guided contactor & starter troubleshooting

Answer with what you actually observe at the machine — the clunk, the buzz, the meter reading. Each answer opens the follow-up that matters for that failure mode, and the flow lands on the most likely causes, how to confirm each one, and the service steps in order — with links into the right model pages for coil resistance ranges, inrush VA, contact kits, and cross-references.

Question 1

What is the contactor (or starter) doing?

Pick the closest symptom. You can back up or restart at any point.