Wine Coolers

durelli_tyres

Hi,

does anyone have experience of Wine Coolers?

These are small fridges basically, that are temprature controlled for the storage of wine. So they typically are'nt as cold as a normal fridge.

I have a Caple Wi3113 wine cooler, when first deleivered it was dead on a arrival, the second one as now been with me a couple of weeks and appears to make noise every 20 seconds, 20 seconds of silence, 20 seconds of noice (compressor running). This is 24 hours a day.

I dont like the noise it makes (which is more than our standard fridge), It appears to use alot of electricity, and I'm worried if the constant on / off action will be a reliability problem.

Does anyone have a wine cooler? Does it keep going on and off? Does it use more electricity than your fridge?

thanks

Durelli

jhays

Hallo Durelli
Yes I had a Lamona HJA6920 installed when I had a new kitchen from Howdens. Excellent kitchen, but I'm not wild about the cooler. For such a small machine, (holds 7 bottles) it uses a lot of electricity. The fan/cooler keeps coming on, roughly 21 times in an hour, a total run time of 27 mins and 30 secs in the hour. Every time it switches on my energy counter goes up by about 50 watts. When you switch off at the mains it drops fairly insignifically, probably about 5-10 watts, also it's not quiet. That all strikes me as pretty pricey. It looks quite neat, and the wine tastes good! If I were to choose again I think I'd probably stick with trying to squeeze the bottles into the fridge.
good luck
jhays

beedeedee

I had a wine cooler (can't remember the make but I bought it from John Lewis about 4 years ago). I never noticed it particularly noisy but didn't use it much because it only cooled wine to 8C (actually the correct temp for white) but we like our white wine to be chilled (4C) and so reverted back to the fridge. Sold it within weeks I'm afraid.