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Wine Guardian Controls
Wine Guardian’s digital electronic control system offers a versatile solution for controlling and
monitoring your wine cellar temperature and humidity. This system consists of four controls; a
main control board; a local user interface; a remote user interface; and a remote temperature and
humidity sensor. The system only required the use of the main control board and one of the user
interfaces (local or remote) to function. However, users have the following options to customize
the control capabilities for their application: (See pg. 8 for description of control boards and
optional sensors).
The Wine Guardian’s digital electronic controls are designed to control the operation of the
compressor, condenser fan, evaporator fan, and optional humidifier. There also is pressure switch
monitoring with a dry contact alarm output that will energize in the event of a pressure switch fault
or a high/low temperature or humidity alarm. The local and remote user interface controls employ
user-friendly, menu-driven programming features that can easily be accessed by holding the mode
button on the control for five seconds. Once in the program menu, the user can scroll through the
setting by pressing the mode button and can adjust each setting by using the up and down arrows.
The programming mode allows the user to customize features such as °F or °C temperature scale,
high/low temperature and humidity alarm set points, an adjustable 0-10 minute compressor anti-
short cycle delay, sensor averaging options, enable or disable the defrost feature, an optional
keypad lockout code, differential and dead band adjustments, room temperature calibration, enable
or disable the humidifier, and automatic or continuous fan option. To exit the programming mode
the user may either hold the mode button for 5 seconds or the control will automatically store the
settings and exit the programming mode after 10 seconds of inactivity. Each user interface control
will also employ an ON/OFF button that turns the system on or off respectively.
