Quote Originally Posted by grey03svt View Post
understood. I was under the assumption that it would raise the max temp on the cooler. was hoping that was the case since the unit will be in my partially unfinished basement, which is maybe 60-62 max during the winter months..

i may need to go a different route... maybe there are cooler units that are factory set to hit up to 70 degrees out there..?

Even if you do find a unit that will allow a wine cooler or refrigerator of some kind to have the high set point at 70 (the temp where cooling starts) there is nothing inside the unit that will actually bring the temp up to that number. Like Vegan said, if you would like to add some sort of heating element (this sounds a bit dangerous) a heating pad or something similar would work. I believe you would need a different type of ETC (one that has 2 power out cords and 1 power in cord) that would allow the cooler to turn on at a set point of 70 and off at 68 and the heat pad to turn on at 65 and turn off at 67. This would keep the wine cooler at a constant temperature between 66 and 69. I would have worries about a heating element around my precious stash though. Let us know how it works out for you.