My Danby died, and then rose from the dead.

[cubby_swans]

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.

[cubby_swans]

well.... appreciate all the insightful responses

But it looks like I figured it out. Got home from work today, and it was dead again. This time I was ticked and started taking off all the panels in the back and by the compressor. After nudging a few wires here and there, it started flickering on and off. Looks like a wire going to the control board was loose.

[jlopez77]

cubby, you don't have a backup kegerator? You should move it from the garage to the living/family room

[lunkhead]

Originally Posted by cubby_swans

well.... appreciate all the insightful responses

But it looks like I figured it out. Got home from work today, and it was dead again. This time I was ticked and started taking off all the panels in the back and by the compressor. After nudging a few wires here and there, it started flickering on and off. Looks like a wire going to the control board was loose.

A loose connection would have been my my suggestion. Was it just a single wire or part of a plug? There is an overload breaker but the display will still work if it opens. The breaker just shuts off the compressor. On the bright side, fixing the loose wire may make the defrost cycle work.