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Default Freezer question, your experience.

dennis@home wrote
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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.


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


>>>>>>>>> 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.


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


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


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


>>>>> It happens faster in uprights.


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


>>> So what,


>> So your claim about frost in uprights is just plain wrong with frost free uprights.


>>> they still use more energy to removing the water vapour that comes in with the air.


>> 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.


>> 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.


Like hell you were.