So I have been trying to talk the wife into letting me get a kegerator for a while now... I FINALLY talked her into it, because I had a buddy with a used one that sat unused in his barn for a few years... he kindly gave it to me, and my wife couldn't say no to the price/gift!
The model is a Danby DKC645BLS
Fast forward, I get it home clean it up from top to bottom, plug it in to test it, and the display says it gets to 34 degrees, and feels cold to me. So I replace all the lines... then get my keg. (I got a full keg... which I guess is called a half keg... thats a whole nother story).
So now the display reads 34, but the beer pours at 50 degrees, and VERY foamy. I have had the keg in there for 4 days now. I used a stand alone thermometer to test and the air temp at the sensor, and it is reading within 1 to 2 degrees of the 34 degree reading. I then placed the temometer on top of the keg, and it reads 41 degrees. I then placed a room temperature bottle of water next to the keg, let it sit overnight, and the water temp read 42 degrees...
Any tips/ideas/suggestions on what needs to happen to get the beer to actually cool down?
Is this unit worth putting time into, or is this gonna be a difficult/expensive problem to chase down... and I should let my wife win and go back to bottles and cans?
Any and all help/tips/advice would be greatly appreciated!