Domestic freezer advice
Discussion
Our upright freezer in the garage is struggling with the heat. It is 25 years old.
It is not frosted up, it does not have dirty heat exchanger coils etc.
The ambient temp in the garage is going up to 35C and it can't cope. It used to do fine, but now I'm having to help it with a big fan blowing over the back.
It hasn't 'failed' it's like me, and struggling with old age. What's likely to be the problem, my suspicion is that the compressor may be wearing out. Is that likely?
If it is the compressor, I guess that's not a £50 repair?
It is not frosted up, it does not have dirty heat exchanger coils etc.
The ambient temp in the garage is going up to 35C and it can't cope. It used to do fine, but now I'm having to help it with a big fan blowing over the back.
It hasn't 'failed' it's like me, and struggling with old age. What's likely to be the problem, my suspicion is that the compressor may be wearing out. Is that likely?
If it is the compressor, I guess that's not a £50 repair?
Yes, I did wonder about that.
The freezer has coped with high temps in the past, but I guess it's just gradually losing power as it wears out. I still think it's the compressor that's the problem as there aren't a lot of moving parts!
So, it's new freezer, or just struggle on for these extreme days (It's going up to -18C instead of -21C) which trips the alarm beeper.
Right now at 07:00 this morning, it's 21C in the garage and the freezer is showing -20C.
The freezer has coped with high temps in the past, but I guess it's just gradually losing power as it wears out. I still think it's the compressor that's the problem as there aren't a lot of moving parts!
So, it's new freezer, or just struggle on for these extreme days (It's going up to -18C instead of -21C) which trips the alarm beeper.
Right now at 07:00 this morning, it's 21C in the garage and the freezer is showing -20C.
Paul Drawmer said:
Yes, I did wonder about that.
The freezer has coped with high temps in the past, but I guess it's just gradually losing power as it wears out. I still think it's the compressor that's the problem as there aren't a lot of moving parts!
So, it's new freezer, or just struggle on for these extreme days (It's going up to -18C instead of -21C) which trips the alarm beeper.
Right now at 07:00 this morning, it's 21C in the garage and the freezer is showing -20C.
It's working fine......The freezer has coped with high temps in the past, but I guess it's just gradually losing power as it wears out. I still think it's the compressor that's the problem as there aren't a lot of moving parts!
So, it's new freezer, or just struggle on for these extreme days (It's going up to -18C instead of -21C) which trips the alarm beeper.
Right now at 07:00 this morning, it's 21C in the garage and the freezer is showing -20C.
Belle427 said:
Can you extract some hot air from the garage using a properly sized fan maybe?
My thought too - the garage is warmer than ambient. Is the heat just from the freezer or is it just sitting in the sun?I propose a two stage freezer... First stage reduces temp from 35 to 10, then pumps the cold air to the second stage which takes it from 10 to -18.
OutInTheShed said:
If it's struggling to get down to temperature, it will be using a lot of electricity.
Our newsih Samsung side-by-side has an energy monitor and it's generally pretty steady around a kW per day. Just looked prompted by your comment and it's been 2kW for the last couple of days. I guess it's mainly a struggle to cool the condenser - it's blowing out into a normally coolish utility room but it's got unusually warm in there so I guess there's a vicious cycle going on.
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