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Is your wine refrigerator too loud?

tpatta
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I have a 180 bottle VinoTemp in the family room, a 200 bottle EuroCave in my den. Both are compressor based and quiet as a mouse. Really don't even know when they are running. Per the reviews on the VinoTemp unit I'm pretty lucky. Most complaints are about the noise of it's compressor. The last is a BreezeAire 3000 unit that controls the wine room. That can get loud if the fan kicks on high but the compressor itself is not too bad. It's on the second floor a bit away from where we usually hang out in the house so we don't really notice.
 
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Danby

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Quite....Very quite.

Easily can get it cold to 28 degrees F.....full as you see......but I have fiddled and have nailed my sweet spot at 33-35.
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keepsonticking
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No, but my WiFi enabled grape peeler makes a racket. Some days I just throw my hands up in resignation.

(Where I come from, folks call that wine thing a basement refrigerator, and it will also hold four turkeys and half a deer.)
 
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keepsonticking keepsonticking
No, but my WiFi enabled grape peeler makes a racket. Some days I just throw my hands up in resignation.

(Where I come from, folks call that wine thing a basement refrigerator, and it will also hold four turkeys and half a deer.)
I hate it when that happens. 😁
 
TexOmega
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keepsonticking keepsonticking
No, but my WiFi enabled grape peeler makes a racket. Some days I just throw my hands up in resignation.

(Where I come from, folks call that wine thing a basement refrigerator, and it will also hold four turkeys and half a deer.)


Well, some people have no hands to throw up☕
 
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For those clamoring for an update on the situation, a month or so ago, as the weather got a little warmer, the wine fridge (which I own and have in my house) started operating noticeably quieter. I haven’t investigated whether this is because 1) we’ve become used to the racket, or 2) it really is quieter because 2a) the fridge doesn’t have to work as hard at this ambient temperature, or 2b) it’s broken. Whatever the case, everyone is happy now. Now that it’s starting to get slightly hotter outside, it might be about time to take the thing apart and frown at the parts again.
 
TexOmega
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I've always had luck frowning, followed by a shoulder hunch or two.

Just holding a wrench sometimes shows I mean business and gets favorable results.
 
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Be sure to sample a glass or two...or three before you take it apart...new experience with each one!

Hey, is that a wine fridge in your living room?
 
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CdnWatchDoc CdnWatchDoc
Be sure to sample a glass or two...or three before you take it apart...new experience with each one!

Hey, is that a wine fridge in your living room?
You bring up an important point which cannot be emphasized enough: I do indeed have a wine fridge in my living room.
 
Engee
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It’s my understanding that wine refrigerators in the living room are intended to be a little loud. This is so that guests notice the noise and ask what it is, giving you the opportunity to tell them that you have a wine refrigerator in your living room.

Our wine refrigerator is in the kitchen and it’s exactly as loud as our refrigerator.
 
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Spruce Spruce
Blimey mate,

Over here in Blighty, we can only dream of a wine fridge. We still rely on the old ice house.

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is the fridge better?
 
lejaune
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Mine is not as loud as the main refrigerator in the kitchen, but it has a different sound when it switches on and off. I don't really care because it's in the living room which we only use when we have guests over, and the noise of conversation usually masks the refrigerator noise.
 
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I plugged it in last night and it is definitely a little louder than my old one it seems.
But of course, it was not buried in cabinetry with a thick slab of granite countertop over it. So that may quiet it some.
I need to play with it more but initial impressions aren't great.
The racks seem flimsy. But maybe less so when there are some bottles stacked on them.
And maybe I can adjust it, but the interior light is either on or off. Opening/closing the door makes no difference, so that is kind of annoying.
That, and the light is also like, blue LED's. Also not super great IMO.
But hey, as long as my wine is about 55 degrees and my wife is happy, all is well.

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The blue LED light is a wine fridge thing, it seems. The one on mine is so dim that I occasionally go to turn it on and discover that it had been on all along. The racks in mine also struck me as kind of flimsy, but ours is filled with “special occasion” bottles and the only occasions so far that have been special enough to dip in to that fund are just the times when we run out of the usual hooch the wife and I swill down. So, not enough traffic to make a judgment about the aluminum racks.

I guess I can reveal that we got our fridge for next to nothing from a secondhand shop. The wife had been lobbying for a fridge for some time, but the pricing on these things is a whole different kind of racket. In Japan at least, a six-bottle fridge runs about US$200 (six bottles would not survive a weekend in this household), and then there’s a leap up to 30-bottle units that cost a grip. The 12-bottle dealio we ended up with seems to have been discontinued, which makes me wonder if there’s a price-point challenge for manufacturers that makes it hard to make money between the entry-level princess models and the suitable-for-yacht use units.
 
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Important update:
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Photo credit: Kroger “Two Fridges” Foot
The plot thickens! This thread is highly entertaining.

I couldn't help noticing that you seem to have a number of bottles on the shelf to the right of the taller ... um, thingy with blue lights (what's that in your living room?) ... which can only mean that you actually need a third one. 😁
 
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Regarding the photo credit, I'm reminded of this:
 
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