Side by side fridge and external thermostat

[kalbarluke]

I am about to inherit a side by side fridge/freezer and have been asked if I want it for brewing. I have an external thermostat that I use on an old fridge for fermentation purposes. What will happen to the freezer section if I use the external thermostat in the fridge section?

 

[Curly79]

If you have your fermenters and temperature probe in the fridge section the freezer section will just be a lot colder. Not much you can do about it. I have a side by side and just store my flasks and bits and pieces in the freezer section.

 

[quantum8]

My freezer section hovers around 2 degrees when the fermentation chamber is set to 18 degrees. So I use it to store bottled beer.