"gregz" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> I have been having trouble with my garage freezer again. Don't know if
>> it
>> is starting to give up the ghost or it's just the danged heat. Heat
>> advisory yesterday and worse today. Came home to the alarm going off.
>> And
>> it did it again today. Did actually reach an unsafe temp today (I think
>> at
>> 24 degrees). Yesterday was 20 so that was iffy. So far only the things
>> on
>> the very top seemed to be slightly thawed but the rest were still frozen
>> solid. That would be some sausages, fruit pops and three burritos. I
>> ate
>> the sausages last night. The package felt a tad mushy but the meat
>> inside
>> still felt frozen through. But I did screw up and left the ones that I
>> didn't eat out in the heat. Didn't remember it until hours later.
>> What's
>> that stinky smell? Oh yeah!
>>
>
> Seems normal for a refridg/ freezer with defrost to get that warm.
> Especially when opening up doors near end of defrost. I've measured a
> couple with a data logger over 24 hour periods. The bigger refrigerator
> fares better at keeping temp than the upper freezer. Bottom freezers might
> be better.
>
> If this didn't happen before, check the placement of items in each. The
> defrost cycle changes everyday, either moving forward an hour or half
> hour,
> so if the times moves along, there might be a problem with something.
> These
> things should give the option of what time to defrost, user programmable,
> stupid controls.

But this one doesn't defrost. It's a chest freezer.