"TW" wrote in message
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Hi All,

Possibly a poor choice of group to ask this but you seem a friendly (and
observant) bunch.

I have just acquired a frost free freezer (10 cu ft upright) and it seemed
to take an age to get from ambient to a decent freezing temperature.

Usefully it has a temperature display so it was quite easy to monitor
speed of cooling. The temperature display is reasonably accurate.

Its in a room at about 15C ambient and it took 1.5hrs to get to freezing
and another 1.5hrs to make -18C while still empty.

This seems like a very long time just to cool an empty freezer and makes
me question whether it is faulty. Anyone here got anything similar and
did you take any rough measurements of freezing time?

I'll fill it with food and see if it keeps it cold but if anyone has any
info to help me make a decision whether it is faulty or not, it would be
appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Trev.



Not really timed it before, but it sounds about right.

Steve