On 28/01/2017 13:26, Maurice wrote:
Just had Indesit/Hotpoint engineer to mend a 6-month-old fridge freezer
that had stopped working.

He checked that it did work if power connected directly to compressor,
and then advised me that it wasn't designed to work if ambient temp
10oC, adding "But they don't tell you that when buying"!

Considering the target temp for a freezer is -18oC, it seems an odd
deign point, even though this one is in a garage whose ambient temp was
around 5oc.

He said he would order a new freezer thermostat (as "it didn't seem to
be working properly") and return to replace it.

[The previous fridge/freezer had been working for years in same
garage.]



Some retailers do give details of the ambient temperature, at least for
some models, even saying 'suitable for use in outbuildings' or similar.

We ran a cheap chest freezer for 20+ years, 7 or so in a shed, the rest
in a garage. We replaced it a few months ago but only as the seal failed
and we decided it owed us nothing, it still actually worked.

We run the new one, chosen as it was specified to work in a garage etc,
in our garage. We also run a normal fridge/freezer in there, the one
previously in the kitchen until we had it 'redone'. The fridge/freezer
never seems to have an issue, it must have been in there 6 or 7 years.