This looks like a nice unit. Wife wanted to get me something as a gift, and I pretty much had this all picked out, but I don't have he ability to fill it anyways, so I couldn't justify her spending the money. Was going to be a new one, but imo, its hard to get anything like this shipped nowadays without something getting dented in transit.
As fort the readout of Lo, it likely has to do with the thermocouple inside the unit, but probably not worth troubleshooting to them. In all the time I've had my vinotemp (the small one that was marketed as a humidor) and all the problems I had, I never had that one. But, I looked into removing the thermocouple to replace it, and the way the build that one anyways, you couldn't do so without destroying the unit, which is why they probably sent another. I wouldn't be surprised if the internal circuit board and/or peltier cooler is the same as some other units. We have a fridigaire wine cooler that is the same size as my vino that we got as a gift, and the circuit board and peltier part look identical.
Interestingly enough, the wine cooler has never had an issue but its always running at 55F (probably regulates better than at the extremes) or so, whereas the vino I'm always trying to keep it up to 66F. I've replaced the boards on the vino, and the peltier, and while it fixed it for awhile, It still wanted to run way cooler than it should. In the end I ended up wiring in some larger power resistors to slow it down, and it pretty much holds to 66 now. Unless it warms up...then it will cool, but the resistors make that happen very slowly.
I think they make all these things using plug and play parts from china,and none of them very well.
The nice thing is that unless they want the other one back, you could probably just put it in a cool area of your basement or something and still use it, giving you twice the storage!
