BallShapedManDon't let it stop you from eating your egg salad sandwich, Karen!
NeatoI’m trying to figure out what kind of defect would cause that. The heating elements of a fridge, the air exchange that has the hotter refrigerant, are all outside the box I believe. If the compressor fails, the refrigerant doesn’t move and doesn’t move heat. So it’d just be an insulated box, right? I think that’d get hotter an ambient but I’m not sure I’d say it’s “heating”.
marcosSome malfunction on the control of defrosting. Or maybe it’s powered by Peltier elements.
Thermoelectric was my first thought, since it can heat or cool, to maintain a set point, warm food, or chill beverages, as implemented in some fancy lunch boxes. I didn’t know if the same applies at this scale, but I’m assuming this unit uses a compressor.
Something of this size should absolutely use a compressor.
But there’s a difference between “should” and “does”, and the fact that failed into heating changes that expectation a lot.