Will Using A Heat Mat In A Chest Freezer Affect The Gas?

[Hogan]

One for the fridgies.

I have a old tuckerbox chest freezer that I have been using as a ferment fridge. In winter I also use a heat mat in it to do ales. The freezer just died - well it is 35 years old - seems to have run out of gas. But that was just after I had the heating mat warming up an ale.

Would like to hear from the experts if the use of a heat mat in the freezer could be detrimental to its operation when I revert back to cooling. Ie - could there be an affect on the gas?



Cheers, Hoges.

 

[wizard78]

I'd be interested to hear about this too. My chesty, seems to have done the same recently under the same circumstances.

 

[Hogan]

I'm surprised no expert has a view on this as I am not alone in my query.


Cheers, Hoges.

 

[bear09]

Im certainly no expert but I have been using a heat mat & light globe in my fridge for ages without incident. It gets bloody warm in there and then switches back over to cooling in the summer months wihtout issue.

This is a fridge though and I am no expert so this reply could be utterly useless.