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The haier has been working well with no mods to speak of. I just make sure the kegerator is cold before the keg goes in and that the keg is cold when it gets put in whenever practical. Sometimes that means putting the keg in a bucket of ice on the way over, but I'm close to my new favorite microbrewer, Santa Cruz Aleworks and can get home in a jiffy. I have also found that I can indeed release all keg pressure via the release valve, then turn on the CO2 and equalize things and pour a nice non foamy beer without a long wait. Again I'm less than 10 minutes away from fresh beer and things are down near 38 degrees pretty quickly. Had one bum keg, that was constant foam and this was due to just a small chip/crack in the rubber gasket that comes on the keg itself.