Well let's go,
-What refrigerant do you have?
-If it works in a vacuum it can be a plugging I advise you to check leaks and thoroughly clean the entire system with r141b and nitrogen.
-Then you have the corresponding charge.
As for the thermostat, remove the connections and with continuity tester you have to cut to the side to the side (always disconnected without electrical voltage)
Many thanks. If I have been a technician for a couple of years or a short time. Electrician for many years as well as electronic. And I always prefer to ask what to break. The compressor started, provided its consumption and was the normal one, provided the pressure and set me 50 psi in vacuum and in operation almost 0, but after a while it went to -20 psi, I wanted to turn off the compressor with a thermal regulator and not could, disconnect its plug and rechecked its pressure to see if it recovered but was fixed at -20 psi. I did not insist and take it to my workshop.
friend, for what you are considering in the first instance the freezer is covered by moisture or scrap of the compressor, if you take the thermostat to zero or off it has to stop, in no. but if you want to start it with -20psi, It will not start because the compressor is with pressure in the high part, you have to wait for the pressure to rise, once it rose to 15 or 20psi, it will start easily. Greetings.