CorneliusAlphonse
Well-Known Member
I'll start with the background - if you just want to help me with the problem then skip the next paragraph!
When moving into my apartment last fall, I inherited a minifridge. "Great!" I thought, "I can start kegging my beer!" I turned it on once, hear the compressor click on and felt it start to get cool. So I set about converting the fridge - I removed all the plastic, bent the freezer down out of the way, moved the temperature control thing so the kegs could fit in. Finally, it's ready to go, and in mid December I put my first beer in a keg and stuck it in the fridge. Four or five hours later, I feel the keg and decide it feels too cold - so I put my thermometer in there. A couple minutes later I take it out - it reads -10 C (-18 F). I check the temp regulator dial thing, and it is set to the warmest setting. I was gone for a couple weeks, I left the beer in the keg but turned the fridge off so it wouldn't freeze. But now I'm back and I have to fix this issue.
Issue: Compressor runs constantly, regardless of temperature setting.
Potential causes:
1. The controller has a long white cable - I assume this to be the temperature probe. It sort of ran along the freezer originally, I think. As you see in this image, I tucked it through the freezer so it will still get cold.
2. The fridge may have been left in the apartment because it was having this temperature issue to begin with. In which case, the regulator is straight up busted
Questions: Do I need to get a new temperature regulator? Can I make it work without doing that? What is the least expensive way to get my keg down to refrigerated temperatures?
other images:
Temperature Regulator, Front View
Temperature Regulator, Rear View
When moving into my apartment last fall, I inherited a minifridge. "Great!" I thought, "I can start kegging my beer!" I turned it on once, hear the compressor click on and felt it start to get cool. So I set about converting the fridge - I removed all the plastic, bent the freezer down out of the way, moved the temperature control thing so the kegs could fit in. Finally, it's ready to go, and in mid December I put my first beer in a keg and stuck it in the fridge. Four or five hours later, I feel the keg and decide it feels too cold - so I put my thermometer in there. A couple minutes later I take it out - it reads -10 C (-18 F). I check the temp regulator dial thing, and it is set to the warmest setting. I was gone for a couple weeks, I left the beer in the keg but turned the fridge off so it wouldn't freeze. But now I'm back and I have to fix this issue.
Issue: Compressor runs constantly, regardless of temperature setting.
Potential causes:
1. The controller has a long white cable - I assume this to be the temperature probe. It sort of ran along the freezer originally, I think. As you see in this image, I tucked it through the freezer so it will still get cold.
2. The fridge may have been left in the apartment because it was having this temperature issue to begin with. In which case, the regulator is straight up busted
Questions: Do I need to get a new temperature regulator? Can I make it work without doing that? What is the least expensive way to get my keg down to refrigerated temperatures?
other images:
Temperature Regulator, Front View
Temperature Regulator, Rear View
