On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 19:43:47 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2015-09-01 6:17 PM, Je?us wrote:
>
>> I wish I could say that about the last chest freezer I bought, roughly
>> 3 years ago. As an experiment, I tried running it through a timer - 15
>> minutes on - 30 mins off (and other variations). With the digital
>> thermometer probe in the freezer, I could watch the freezer warming up
>> quite alarmingly within 10 minutes or so, and this wasn't in hot
>> weather either. I've seen other freezers powered off elsewhere and
>> been surprised how quickly they start to defrost.
>>
>
>Was there anything in the freezer when you ran that experiment? If the
>chest is full of frozen stuff, especially larger dense things like
>roasts, they are like big ice cubes and will keep each other cold.

The freezer was 3/4 full of stuff. I guess it's just a crap freezer!
The brand is Fischer and Paykel (sp).