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Originally Posted by psychodad
Interesting that it takes that long to see a change on the display. I was going to add a pot to mine and try to dial in on the display against a known measured temperature but your findings suggests that won't work. Or at least it will take a bit of trial and error to get it to match.
I took some vacation a week or so ago (use it or lose it) and intended to diagram the control board to see what it would take to get rid of the defrost cycle or at least make it not occur as often. I was also going to tie the output for the fan high all the time and use it to move air to the tower but I drank dunkleweizen instead.
One thing that you will find you can do now that you have an external temp control is set the Danby control to the highest setting and let the fan run pretty much all the time except for the time it wants to defrost.
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Yes I was surprised myself that it took that long to change. The thermistor that is the temp sensor responds pretty quick to temp changes, but danby must have built a slow hysteresis into the system to keep it from rapid cycling. I do keep the danby control at its highest setting, but long since pulled their little fan out. But it sounds like a good idea to put it back in, a little extra air movement should be a good thing. I did not pull the top off to install the new control either, just took the little cover off over the compressor and spliced the wires in there. Mounted the control to a piece of trim board I had, attached to the back of the unit. Also put 2 indicator lamps on it, 1 red for compressor off, 1 green for compressor on. One thing about these danbys they do run quiet, so now I can see what it's doing.