I have one of these, and every so often, the fan would start making a loud clicking noise. I discovered that if I shut the fridge off for a while and left the door open to defrost it, it'd work fine again for a while before the noise came back. Apparently, some ice was building up between the metal heat-sink and the fan, causing the fan blades to scrape against the ice/frost build-up and make the "tick, tick tick" noise. There is no compressor in the Avanti EC15W-2 mini fridge. It uses a simple Peltier junction device to transfer heat from the inside of the fridge to the outside/rear of the unit. So it should never get very loud at all, unless one of the two fans in it is acting up in some way.
Common for all frig to make lots of noise over time. check the fan, they do wear over time, clean all the dust of the evaporator in front of the fan that will quiet a bit, lots of dust tend to collect and stick to it. if it does not, spray some WD40 on the bearing motor, it will last for while but will have to be replace, fairly easy to do by just ordering a new fan and replacing it. if its compressor, than its a different story. worn and old compressor tend to make lots of noise and that you have to replace even though it make noise it does not mean you have to replace right away, unless you cant tolerate the noise.
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I have one of these, and every so often, the fan would start making a loud clicking noise. I discovered that if I shut the fridge off for a while and left the door open to defrost it, it'd work fine again for a while before the noise came back. Apparently, some ice was building up between the metal heat-sink and the fan, causing the fan blades to scrape against the ice/frost build-up and make the "tick, tick tick" noise.
There is no compressor in the Avanti EC15W-2 mini fridge. It uses a simple Peltier junction device to transfer heat from the inside of the fridge to the outside/rear of the unit. So it should never get very loud at all, unless one of the two fans in it is acting up in some way.
Common for all frig to make lots of noise over time. check the fan, they do wear over time, clean all the dust of the evaporator in front of the fan that will quiet a bit, lots of dust tend to collect and stick to it. if it does not, spray some WD40 on the bearing motor, it will last for while but will have to be replace, fairly easy to do by just ordering a new fan and replacing it. if its compressor, than its a different story. worn and old compressor tend to make lots of noise and that you have to replace even though it make noise it does not mean you have to replace right away, unless you cant tolerate the noise.