Quote Originally Posted by projectsunfire View Post
So after close to 3 years of flawless wineador operation...mine has suddenly decided to create a daily pool of water collecting under the fan. I have the drain plugged. I also had applied several layers of electrical tape over the drain reservoir so that it is basically a funnel. It has been this way for at least the past year and i have never had any condensation build up there...let alone an actual pool of water. I have not changed anything recently so I am really dumbfounded why all of a sudden I have to mop up every day to get rid of this water. It is messing with my normally rock solid RH. Not cool man.

Any one have any ideas what is going on here??
Hey Kris, the daily pool of water is caused by the fan on the back not operating properly. The peltier assembly is a solid state device that rapidly cools on one side, and gets very hot on the other. These modules are "stuck" in between two heatsinks, one to pull the hot away from the pad and out the back of the unit and the other to pull the cold and have the fan blow into the fridge. Ice builds up on these pads in the right conditions, and will melt off when the pad is not running. When the fan on the back does not work properly, like being dusty, pet hair.... or it has failed, the peltier assembly gets very hot and heats up the inside part of the assembly and melts whatever frost maybe on the unit.

Long story short, I would check the fan on the back. I have 2 Whynter CHC-251S units and I check and clean the fans every month. I m an IT consultant and it is part of my routine when I clean my workstations and servers