jtucker101
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I ran across a used, Haier HEC SWX30N wine cellar on Craigslist. SWMBO's birthday is coming up, and I know she's been wanting one. The price was pretty good and the description stated it worked perfectly, in excellent condition. I met the seller, looked over the fridge, and cosmetically everything looked as described. Since we met at a central place, power wasn't available to see if it worked so I assumed everything was fine (I had no reason to doubt them, and the cellar had signs of use). Bought it, brought it home and let it sit upright for 24 hours just in case.
So I plug it in today, it jumps to life and I figure life is great, SWMBO is gonna be happy! I check on it 45 minutes later, and the temperature display reads "HH", the inside is near freezing (based on a thermometer I stuck in there). I can change the setpoint, but it doesn't do any good, it just keeps dropping to near-freezing.
Of course, the seller won't return calls or emails. Didn't really surprise me, but at least it's not dead. Worst case, I have a new fermentation chiller that I can hook up to a RANCO to use in the brewery, but I really would like it for its intended use.
It has electronic controls, mot manual. The display reads "HH", which means the cellar temperature is too high. The compressor is obviously fine since it is cooling like a champ. I don't have refrigeration experience, but I do have controls experience. Usually you run into "HH" and no cooling, but since I have the "HH" and it is trying to cool things down, it leads me to believe it's just a bad sensor (thermocouple or something like that).
Before I order a new sensor for this (which is only a few bucks) is there something else that could be causing this?
So I plug it in today, it jumps to life and I figure life is great, SWMBO is gonna be happy! I check on it 45 minutes later, and the temperature display reads "HH", the inside is near freezing (based on a thermometer I stuck in there). I can change the setpoint, but it doesn't do any good, it just keeps dropping to near-freezing.
Of course, the seller won't return calls or emails. Didn't really surprise me, but at least it's not dead. Worst case, I have a new fermentation chiller that I can hook up to a RANCO to use in the brewery, but I really would like it for its intended use.
It has electronic controls, mot manual. The display reads "HH", which means the cellar temperature is too high. The compressor is obviously fine since it is cooling like a champ. I don't have refrigeration experience, but I do have controls experience. Usually you run into "HH" and no cooling, but since I have the "HH" and it is trying to cool things down, it leads me to believe it's just a bad sensor (thermocouple or something like that).
Before I order a new sensor for this (which is only a few bucks) is there something else that could be causing this?