Chest Freezer Busted?

[ForkBoy]

I have a chest freezer that seems to be struggling to drop the temperature. Ice only forms on one inner wall, the other walls are cool, but not cold.

It is also enclosed in a cabinet, with about 80mm all round clearance for ventilation and the rear of the enclosure is fully open.

It's loaded with 20L water and a couple of half kegs and it seems to barely go below 10c after 3 days.

I know it doesn't sound healthy, but could anyone comment if it's the ventilation that might be causing the issue, or is the unit just borked? is it worth regassing - it's probably 15 years old.

 

[pokolbinguy]

Why don't u take the contents out of the freezer and see what happens? Can you move it? If you can, move it to a more ventilated area and let it run for a day or two and see what happens.

Trial and error pays its way.

Pok

 

[J.T]

Hey Mate,

Your freezer has a gas leak. The pipes run inside the walls of chest freezers, so they arent worth trying to fix.
You may have notice it getting slowly worse for a while. Regassing it will fix it for a short time but it will eventually leak out again.

Enclosing a fridge or freezer isnt ideal as they need airflow to allow heat to escape from the condensor.

JT