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Dryer runs & heats,but after 1 or2 cycles it will not start,the start button will just buzz. I ran it for 20 minutes without anything in it.when i shut it off it would not start again. I let it sit for 30 min or so and it will start again. When we use it it will dry one load and then won't start again. When you push the start button, the buzzer will sound like the Load Finished signal.I have the vent pipe off and the air doesn't seem too hot but is it cutting out on Hi Limit?

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The high limit just shuts off the heating element, so that wouldn't determine if the dryer runs or not. normally if the dryer wont turn on after you have run it then will restart after it has been off for a while it usually means that the motor is overheating and what is happenning is the motor has a limit switch on it that shuts the motor off when it gets too hot. It is a resettable switch, so when the motor cools down it will restart. The only way that the motor overheats that much is either a bad motor or something causing enough drag on the motor to cause it to overheat but normally if something is causing drag on the motor, such as a bad roller,blower wheel ect., the belt ususally takes a dive too. All that to answer your original question about the high limit, most likely not.

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