Since I'm stuck at work and can't go home to mess with it I figured I'd just see what you guys thought. I picked up a freezer earlier this week of craigs list. My buddy helping me haul it out of the sellers basement slipped when we were loading and the freezer fell onto its back from about 2.5-3 ft (and on my knee, ouch). Anyways, we got it home plugged it in and started cleaning it. Frost started forming on the inside pretty quickly so we figured the freezer was still in working order.
Fast forward 2 days and I've got a temp control box (Love TS-2 in an enclosure with an outlet hooked to the switch so I just plug my freezer into the box, put the probe wherever and plug the box into the wall. Last night it was running fine and dropped about 10 degrees before I went to bed. This morning I wake up and its no logner running and still hanging around 50 deg. while the set point was at 40. The little dot on the TS2 by the snowflakes indicated it was still trying to chill but the compressor would not run, nor attempt to kick on in the 40 minutes I was getting ready to leave. A quick google search says check the defrost timer - any one on here agree with that?
Also, since the TS2 has a defrost time, can I set that up and use it to replace the regular defrost timer?
Fast forward 2 days and I've got a temp control box (Love TS-2 in an enclosure with an outlet hooked to the switch so I just plug my freezer into the box, put the probe wherever and plug the box into the wall. Last night it was running fine and dropped about 10 degrees before I went to bed. This morning I wake up and its no logner running and still hanging around 50 deg. while the set point was at 40. The little dot on the TS2 by the snowflakes indicated it was still trying to chill but the compressor would not run, nor attempt to kick on in the 40 minutes I was getting ready to leave. A quick google search says check the defrost timer - any one on here agree with that?
Also, since the TS2 has a defrost time, can I set that up and use it to replace the regular defrost timer?