Product review (2 stars): Cheap thermostat
When I first started this appliance, I thought "this is a 5 star". It looks good. It is quiet, It gets to temperature quickly. I was initially very satisfied. Then, when the temperature stabilized after several days, I realized it was not cold enough for beer. It settled out at 46 degrees, measured with a liquid temperature monitor submerged in water. So, I looked around and found that this is pretty normal. Many people reported that they had to adjust the thermostat. The procedure for doing this was on line, in several places, and there was even an Edgestar youtube video showing the procedure. Since I worked as an electronics technician for about 20 years and had made thousands of very delicate adjustments on instrumentation control equipment, I was not intimidated. I performed the procedure. In the video, the tech warns "we do not want to adjust this control more that once, since it will completely lose its calibration". Sounded strange to me, but, I decided, we'll be careful. I did the adjustment, plugged the machine in and the internal temperature dove to 32 degrees and completely iced up the back plate. So, I let the ice melt, and did the one extra turn that the tech on the video said we could make. Plugged it in and, again, it dropped and iced up. So, I guess it can lose its calibration on one adjustment. I went to the Edgestar support page and found that I could leave an email with a question. So, I did that, asking only how I could buy a replacement thermostat since it didn't look like there was much of a warranty option on this thing and others had said that Edgestar took forever and a lot of hassle to get a replacement under any kind of warrant . Got an auto reply that said "call this number". From reading other posts, I learned that the people who had called the number basically just got the procedure. Before asking my questions, I had looked at the warranty and learned that if you do have a problem and need a "service call", you have to send the appliance back to an authorized location, paying shipping both ways. Since I was only talking about a very flimsy 2.00 thermostat, I decided to just do a workaround and replace the factory thermostat with an add on Johnson controller.

Other than the thermostat issue, I can tell you that this seems to be a very good refrigerator that will freeze the heck out of anything, if that's what you want to do. Too bad they ruined it with a cheap part.