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you hit nail on the head.
smaller less quality brands hate to be shut off. key in my opinion is to run them at least 30 minutes every other week
the weird brand at lowes, woked for us for over ten years, i sold them both for 50 to a guy that needed small units. mine ran 11 months out of the year
but they were huge energy hogs.

we had a small medical grade freezer in our rv for 5 years, 24/7 it ran with no issues.
when we stopped using the rv as much, i emptied it and unplugged it...when we fired it back up a few months later. it was dead