This is post #3 describing the wine storage unit upgrade. See the introduction post for the background. In the ceiling of the cabinet interior was a “lamp”, meaning a single white LED, controllable with one of the front panel buttons. It didn’t really provide enough light to be useful, but it was already wired to the …

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This is post #2 describing the wine storage unit upgrade. See the introduction post for the background. The first thing that needed figuring out was how to redo the front panel. In the original setup, this is actually where the microcontroller is located, but that wouldn’t work for the redesign because there are only 3 wires …

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Lately, I’ve been working on a wine storage unit. This is the first post in a series detailing what I’m doing. When Chris Hayward left town for Heidelberg, he bequeathed his (non-functional) wine refrigerator to me. It didn’t work, but I figured it would probably be something simple that could be fixed. Kathy and I …

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