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Old 07-17-2008, 12:04 PM
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Default My Danby died, and then rose from the dead.

Ok, so I get home from work last night, pull into the garage, and first thing I notice is there is the LED display on my Danby is out. I check it out, it's about 5 degrees warmer than it was the night before. It's completely dead to the world. I fill the box with an arsenal of ice packs I have in my freezer. I have a 3yr Best Buy in-home warranty, so I called them, and they tell me that they can have someone out the next day. +1 to Big Box. At this point I'm happy that I'll probably be able to save the keg I JUST PUT IN 5 days ago.

I am 100% certain it was not an outlet problem. My blower is plugged into the same outlet and was running fine, and I plugged the Danby into another outlet and it was still dead.

After that, I go play softball, get home about 11:30pm, six hours after I noticed the death, and yep, the Danby is still dead and the keg is warming ever so slowly.

Fast forward to this morning. The Best Buy service guy calls me at 7:30 am, informs me that I'm his first call, and he'll be at my house at 8. +2 to Big Box warranty service. The guy shows up right at 8 as promised, we head into the garage and wtf...... My Danby is running just fine. The only problem is it's running at the ******* default temp of 43. We set it to 36, he poked around, and says "I believe you, but I can't fix it if it isn't broke."

So what the hell happened? Is there some kind of overload breaker that resets or something? Did it overheat sitting in a hot garage, and then come back on... 8 (or more) hours later?

I probably need to get it out of the garage and into the basement.
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