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Default Freezer question, your experience.



"Rod Speed" > wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>>> After seeing the upright models it occurred to me that when
>>>>>>>>>> a check freezer is full, it's really full because all the crap
>>>>>>>>>> is a big pile, while a full upright will still have air because
>>>>>>>>>> the contents are unlikely exactly match the shelf spacing.

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>>>>>>>>> Yes, but that air makes no difference to the effeciency of the
>>>>>>>>> freezer.

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>>>>>>>> It does when you open the door, that free air leaks out and is
>>>>>>>> replaced by nice warm moist air that has to be cooled.

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>>>>>>> In practice thats a trivial effect because the specific gravity of
>>>>>>> the air is so low.

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>>>>>> Its that low that it ices up your freezer.

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>>>>> Nope, that mostly comes from what is in the freezer and happens in
>>>>> chest freezers anyway.

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>>>> It happens faster in uprights.

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>>> Not with the frost free ones it doesnt.

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>> So what,

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> So your claim about frost in uprights is just plain wrong with frost free
> uprights.
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>> they still use more energy to removing the water vapour that comes in
>> with the air.

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> But that isnt enough to matter, much less than the energy
> required to freeze the contents of the freezer in the first place
> and to pump out what leaks in thru the insulation all the time.
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> Yes, uprights are a little less efficient than chest freezers, but
> when you allow for the difficulty of access to the contents of a chest
> freezer compared with an upright, there is **** all in it in practice.


See I was correct.