{"id":1412,"date":"2017-01-30T06:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2022-03-12T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T07:21:10","slug":"vinotemp-vt-52n-updated-sku-vt-52sn-clicking-sound-and-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/vinotemp-vt-52n-updated-sku-vt-52sn-clicking-sound-and-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinotemp VT-52N (updated SKU: VT-52SN) Clicking Sound and Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I decided to write this post in hopes of helping others who are experiencing a \u2018clicking\u2019 sound coming from their Vinotemp wine cooler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: This is in no way a self-repair tutorial, as I am not certified in any way to diagnose \/ repair a Vinotemp\u2026 so treat this post as \u2018entertainment\u2019 as I document my experience with remedying my problem with my wine refrigerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a month ago my 9-year old Vinotemp VT-52N wine refrigerator (some call it a wine chiller) started to make a clicking sound, with the temperature display flashing all its LED \u2018bars\u2019. This seem to happen whenever the fridge should be engaging the compressor to kick in and cool the wine \u2013 I notice this after watching it on and off for two days \u2013 I also have a separate thermostat inside the fridge, and whenever the temperature rises a few degrees above my pre-set wine fridge temperature, the clicking sound happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first plan was to go the \u201cofficial\u201d route \u2013 get help from Vinotemp. At that time (November 2016) on Vinotemp\u2019s service page<\/a> they referred customers who are no longer on a factory warranty to a company called A&E Service. I called them to schedule for a technician to come to my house. Two days later the technician come on site, and told me he would need to order a \u201cPC board\u201d since most likely that is failing\u2026 Total charge for the visit was $99, and a advanced charge for the installation of the PC board for $219.80. The PC board will be charged separately, $150. I went with this figuring it was still cheaper than buying a new Vinotemp \u2013 a similar model would cost me around $700. I was told that the part should arrive within 2 weeks and they would return to install it for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two weeks go by and I suddenly receive a call and they tell me that the part can not be ordered, and they would refund me $219.80, which brings me the total A&E diagnostic visit to $99.00, plus a wine refrigerator that no longer works\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to look on line, and during my research I realized that these wine refrigerators are actually quite simple \u2013 the main components are \u2013 compressor (holding the cooling fluids), thermostat, a motor, fan, and this \u201ccontrol board\u201d (which A&E said they can not order). On further research, I realized that this control board (as well as most other components on my VT-52N can be purchased DIRECTLY<\/strong> from Vintotemp \u2013 I searched for \u201cVT-52SN\u201d which the web site instead recommended that I search for \u201cVT-52SN\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the link to the search results<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voila! <\/em>VT-52SN Control Board, for a mere $72.00!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I figure I might as well try to order and install this myself \u2013 if that doesn\u2019t work, THEN I\u2019ll go buy myself a new wine fridge\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Received my control board in about 10 business days, and this morning I pulled the wine fridge out, unplugged it, and replaced the old control board with the new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far it\u2019s working like a champ<\/u><\/em> for the past 8 hours, and no clicking\/flashing whatsoever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson learned: sometimes it pays to research a bit on the Internet \u2013 A&E marked up a $72 part to $150, and would have charged me another $219.80 to install this board, all of which took me 20 minutes (10 minutes were spent on removing<\/em> my 45+ bottles of wine from the refrigerator) to do myself! Epilogue: On Vinotemp\u2019s web site (January 2017) they no longer refer customers to A&E \u2013 I must have been on the last days of Vinotemp and A&E\u2019s business relationship, hence A&E\u2019s inability to order the part. I guess I got lucky then\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to write this post in hopes of helping others who are experiencing a \u2018clicking\u2019 sound coming from their Vinotemp wine cooler. NOTE: This is in no way a self-repair tutorial, as I am not certified in any way to diagnose \/ repair a Vinotemp\u2026 so treat this post as \u2018entertainment\u2019 as I document…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-148.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}