My wine cooler unit does not run - no noise from the compression or fan but the door light is on

SOURCE: danby wine cooler repair

I am having a problem with my wine cooler also.I found the upper evap fan not running.So i opened up the control board and plugged the fan that was not working into one of the other 2 sockets,and the fan worked.so i have a circuit board problem.If you go online to sears parts and repair.put in your model# and search,it will bring up a diagram of most of the parts available.And no it doesnt have to be a GE product.

SOURCE: oster 12 bottle wine cooler

I have the same problem. my oster 12 bottle wine cooler was only six months old. the temp of the cooler won't drop. stay at least 80 F and up. Bestbuy don't even carry this product anymore.

SOURCE: Oster wine cooler (peltier diode)

I called the contact in one post below, and he was VERY helpful. Took all my info, submitted to the division handling this and they overnighted me a check for the entire amount plus tax for the wine cooler to me! Call Jason!

Jason's contact info is:
Jarden Consumer Solutions
2381 Executive Center Drive
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 912-4100

SOURCE: OSTER WINE COOLER

I followed the advice of Ancient Bob and located the heat shrinked fuse as he described. I removed it from the circuit board using a very small tipped soldering iron and repaced it with an inline fuse holder with about 1" leads(Radio Shack or Auto Parts store) and carefully soldered it in place on the circuit board. This makes a fuse replacement a snap if necessary later..I used a 5A 250V fuse as original. It has been running fine for two weeks now, I think the fuse in question blows if the ambient temperature gets too high in the room-a design defect (my opinion). As Ancient Bob said, the total cost was about six dollars icluding 3 extra fuses. Care must be taken when removing the solder, or resoldering the circuit board. It's not complicated but must not be sloppy. After removing the original fuse I drilled out the circuit board fuse holes (they may fill with solder as a byproduct of removing the fuse) with a tiny drill bit to make the installation of the inline fuse neat and easy. Good Luck

SOURCE: Emerson FR24RD Wine Cooler

If you are handy with small electrics, or know someone who is...

I had a similar problem and just solved it.
My cooler was leaking and had trouble keeping the proper temperature.
It was also making a buzzing sound which is what lead me to my solution.
BTW - The liquid that was leaking was condensation, probably because the unit was not holding a constant temperature.

Unplug the unit first - no need to get electrocuted.
These units use peltier cooling- essentially a large heat sink with three fans attached.
Click here for more info regarding peltier cooling.
The peltier unit is not repairable, but the fans are; which was what my problem was.
There are three fans on this unit, one on the inside and two on the outside.
Follow these steps to remove them.

1. Remove the rear cover. It is held on with ten screws. This exposes the two exterior fans and the peltier heat sink
2. The heat sink is held on with four screws - remove them and pull the heat sink out. The third fan is on a short wire lead, so be careful when removing the heat sink from the body of the cooler.
3. The two exterior fans are connected to a control panel, the electrical connection is easy to disconnect.
4. Once all of the wires have been disconnected, you can remove the fans from the heat sink.
   
5. The fans are screwed to a mounting plate, which is screwed to the heat sink
6. You must remove the mounting plate first to expose the screws that hold the fan to the mounting plate. The fans are typical computer case cooling fans
7. I only needed one fan, but replaced all three because I didn't want to do this job again.
8. I purchased my fans from Newark.com the prices were better than what I found at the computer websites. Also, these fans are much better than the original and will hopefully last much longer than the three I got from the old ones.
9. You need one of these and two of these. The total with shipping was around $30
10. You will need to splice the old electrical connection sockets onto the new fans using wire crimpers or solder them on.
11. Attach the components in reverse order and power on the unit.
12. These fnas may move more air than the originals, because the unit seemed to cool much quicker than I remember.
    
13. Total time for repair is about 45 minutes