Unrepairable freezer?

Thanks for that - hadn't realised fixing it might be so (relatively) straightforward. I shall be giving it a whirl . . .

It Hotpoint and came with a 10 year parts only warranty, despite it costing over £400 they have only offered £30 if the replacement is bought via their website where they are more expensive than other suppliers!

Mike

Ours is rated at 150w Mike

That's exactly model that I've just ordered on recommendation from the manufacturer.

Mike

Particularly as it was sold to us with a 10 year parts warranty!

Mike

For top quality the goods the law will support upto 6yrs warranty. For anything of lesser quality you're not getting 6 years. For cheapo stuff it's 1 year.

Parts warranties are usually worthless, having the condition that you pay way ott for the mfr's labour.

Unrepairable or unreplaceable parts are normal practice, albeit bad practice. They are not a legal issue.

So in short you've got a dead machine and no likelihood of any legal redress.

Is the stat bimetallic? If so, cleaning the contacts usually works. But don't be surprised if it then needs its temp readjusting, and while it mostly works it can refail. It is also possible to run ffs on a short cycling timer with an always on temp display. Not quite ideal but it works fairly well in practice. You just need to adjust the timing when moving in & out of hot weather. A separate rertofitted stat would be a bit better.

Ah, the worthless warranty - parts come free but you have to pay for their labour force to install it.

Much like some of the "limited" 10 warranties where after the statuary year they offer a descending discount on a new item, depending on the number of year a since new. Failure or fault after 3 years and get 50% off BUT 50% their recommended price for an item that is usually sold at half price for the past 10 years.

The typical consumption for a 200 litre capacity upright freezer is

unless of course the freezer was sold from 1 July 2021 so the "right to repair" legislation applies. That covers thermostats.

I think you might mean MINUS 18 for general use...

Andy

A little while ago I checked it by measuring the time for the paint blob on the meter disc to make one complete revolution.

Hardly anything on: 6m45s Same plus the fridge freezer: 3m42s

The plate on the meter says 166-2/3 revolutions per kWH. This translates as W=21,600/S, where W is watts and S is seconds per revolution.

So the consumption with the FF is 97.3W; without is 53.33W. So the FF on its own is 44W or so.

I currently pay 34.50p/kWH, so the FF costs about £133 for a year of

By all means check my calculation.

(I did the original estimation in 2016 when the unit rate was

ha, yes :)

But the compressor only runs part of the time

If you use a Kill-O-Watt electric meter, you can watch all the power consuming phases. Such as compressor power, and a couple times of day, the power level used by the resistive heater that does the defrost.

The average power will also depend on the ambient temperature.

The one at the bottom of the page, is pretty close to the function set of mine. I usually leave mine on the middle button setting, as I measure instantaneous power a lot (for waste measurement purposes). Whereas other people will want the "summation-over-time" function. And then it pays to review the different meter models to see what they offer in the way of functions.

When the compressor on my old fridge was jammed on, I could see the impact on the electric bill. It's not something you can afford to ignore.

Paul

No it doesn't. That was the point of my post: "Mine hardly ever turns off, but I put up with it. It's a fridge freezer, ice forms in the fridge part and I have to take ice cream out 20 minutes before I want to consume it."

so it's faulty & wasting money