Does anyone know how this works please? Mine seems to work but I am trying to figure out whether it is a huge power hog. (I am in an area where KWH ra tes have just jumped by what seems to be about 200%) Cuisinart says it use s 75-95 watts, which (unless it is using more because it isnt working prope rly, see below about the fan being constantly on) sounds pretty bad in an e ra where everyone is replacing 100 watt bulbs with 15 watt ones.
My unit blows an audible fan constantly at all hours of the day and night, so it seems to blow air inside and measure the temperature inside which res ults? I seem to remember the market was flooded a few years ago with cute looking 1950s-design fridges about a foot high, touted as "coolers" which w orked just by blowing air in the interior. i.e. they didnt work at all.
Cuisinart says it works by 'measuring the differential voltage inside and o utside' whatever that means?? Users report that condensation collects insid e the unit and if not collected spills onto the floor but Cuisinart confirm s that it doesnt have any compressor in it! But it seems to maintain [in W inter] a pretty constant 8 degree setting on the expensive-looking thermome ter at the front. So I am trying to work out how it works?