Hello Folks,
Our 13-year old chest freezer died. Compressor open. Could be the overload protection but anyhow, there must be a reason it came on so we replaced it with a small 5.5 cuft unit from Sunbeam. The old one was (to my amazement) always totally silent, the new one isn't:
Makes the normal compressor grumble just as older fridges do, not loud but audible. It cycles 3-4 times per hour which seems a bit much to me, the duty cycle is roughly 40% at 65F ambient. Is this normal for chest freezers these days?
It also makes light internal splashing noises in the freon tubing, like a little table fountain. Manual says it can be normal. Is it really?
Oh, and of course as usual it has no failure alarm. Beats me why they don't.