Worried about freezer

[kthompson]

Been just over 44 years ago I worked on refrigerators, freezers and other house hold appliances. Mostly chest freezers and talking the year 1973 when I left it full time. In my part of the world most all freezers were chest then with some uprights but no, no frost freezers. Back then I would say there were about as many chest freezers setting on back porches or under carports or outside utility rooms as there were or more than inside heated house. If there was any variance in the life between inside or outside it was due to moisture outside but as to operation and life span we never noticed any difference. Now that being said compressors are for certain more efficient but we had foam insulated units then. No idea how much the coil systems may have changed for had no reason to look at the condenser system on chest freezer on new ones. NO way will I say the newer units are not affected more by the temp they operate in but I really suspect if you took the thermometers out of those freezers you would think your freezers are doing just fine and my belief you will not notice any difference in how well your frozen food keeps. Then maybe my compressor is not pumping as it use to and my system is low on Freon. lol

 

[Wood_Butcher_Dav]

We bought a 2nd fridge several yrs ago, put it in the garage. Lost everything in the freezer because it shut down when the garage got cold. Had a repair guy come, first thing he told me it wont work in cold temps. Moved it to basement, no problems.

If you want one in a cold area, they make them, just make sure before you buy.

If you talking about refrigerator/freezer combo in a unheated space the freezer side will not work correctly with lower ambient temperatures. The controlling thermostat for the compressor is in the refrigerator section, so the demand is to run less thus warmer temps in freezer.

Dave

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If you talking about refrigerator/freezer combo in a unheated space the freezer side will not work correctly with lower ambient temperatures. The controlling thermostat for the compressor is in the refrigerator section, so the demand is to run less thus warmer temps in freezer.

Dave

Exactly.. But there are some, just gotta check the specs.