My biggest complaint is when I put in a new keg, it takes forever for it to reach temp.
The good news is that it\'s probably not a problem with your kegerator (unless the inside is leaking air). The bad news is that it is probably a problem with some fundamental beer physics. A keg placed in a 38 degree refrigerator will only cool down by about one degree per hour until it reaches 38. So if you put a room temperature (72 degree) keg into any refrigerator, you\'re looking at about 34 hours (a day and a half) for it to cool down to drinking temperature.
Ice tricks can help a little, though they\'re usually better for changing perceived temperature than actually changing the temperature. The best thing to do is to place ice along the bottom of the keg since the beer at the bottom is the first beer to come out. Icing the top of a keg doesn\'t actually do anything, but everyone does it all the time at parties and it does make the beer
look colder which is often all you need.
Anyone have experience with Kegerators ?
I have been thinking of getting 1.
We love ours. Although we haven\'t had any beer in it in a while. 
what kind do you have ? things i should watch out for etc ?
I\'ve had 5 different models and they\'re all basically the same. The go-to brands are Banner and Micromatic but others seem to work fine.
The most common problems, really, are by users. One is that people get 1/2 barrels and then take 2 months to drink them, and leave them tapped the whole time. This is bad enough for the beer if you\'re using beer gas (75% N2, 25%CO2) but on top of that most people run 100% CO2 which is fine if you\'re finishing stuff efficiently but eventually overcarbonates the beer and messes up the flavor. The other common user error is that people don\'t clean their lines. You\'ve gotta flush some Checkmate or other heavy-duty caustic cleaner through that bad boy once a month if you really want it to pour nice.
So three things to do:
1. Consider 1/6 barrels or 1/4 barrels unless you know for sure a lot of people are coming over and that you can definitely wack that 1/2 barrel in under 4 weeks.
2. Clean the line once a month.
3. Untap the keg whenever you\'re not using it. CO2 is fine, you don\'t need beer gas, but if you\'re using compressed air stop immediately and switch to CO2.
