How can we convert our wine cooler to reach refrigerator temperatures of 35 degrees farenheit or below?
I wouldn’t be surprised to know that the smaller wine refrigerators use a Peltier-style cooling system that isn’t capable of the massive cooling capacity of the “traditional” condensor/compressor your fullsize kitchen fridge has, so, it’s quite possible you cannot. If it’s “silent” without the noisy mechanical off-on like your kitchen fridge, nope.
Three issues, I think: • Thermostat • Cooling capacity • InsulationOne has been answered. Two.. Cooling capacity is relative to the ambient temperature of the room the unit is in. In general, the rating for a cooler could be around 10 degrees Celsius, where a freezer might be up around 40. So, a cheap cooler might take a moderate 20 degree room down to 10 degrees inside the cavity, where a chest freezer might take a hot 30 degree room down to -10 inside the cavity. The important point here is, if you have a nice cool place to put it in, you will be able to get a lower temperature out of the same cooler. Running at the full rated capacity, or beyond, will seriously stress the unit, or course, so you could burn it out. Three.. Insulation will boost the cooling capacity. Be careful though, the heat being pumped out of the system has to escape somewhere. On a typical fridge it is through the part marked Heat Exchanging
