Fridge/freezers in garage during cold weather

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We recently purchased large Beko fridge/freezer (second/hand) which
stands in garage which is very cold as not attached to house. The freezer section seems to have stopped working. We have an upright freezer also Beko which has run for years in same garage. Wonder whether fridge
freezers may present more of a problem. Another contributor says she
was told by the manufacturer of her fridge/freezer that below a certain
ambient temperature you will have problems. Anyone else experienced
a similar problem.
 
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Its a bit difficult to comprehend, but the warmer the ambient temperature that your fridge/freezer is stored in, the better it will behave.
So, if you place the thing in a very cold garage it won't work too well.
Below 8 degrees or thereabouts, the refridgerant gas can't extract any heat from the surrounding air, so it doesn't work particularly well.
John :)
 
It can be to do with the "climate class" of your particular fridge freezer - basically the operating environment specified by the manufacturer.

If your fridge freezer has just one thermostat shared between both halves then you can run into problems whenever the ambient temperature in your garage falls to below the temp the fridge is trying to maintain, but stays above the temp you want your freezer to be at. The thermostat will shut the appliance down (because it's happy that the inside of the fridge is ok temp-wise) but if that goes on for a while the freezer will start to defrost.

Fuller explanation here:-

http://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/wordpress/freezer-defrosted-can-you-put-a-fridge-feezer-in-a-garage/
 
Its a bit difficult to comprehend, but the warmer the ambient temperature that your fridge/freezer is stored in, the better it will behave.
So, if you place the thing in a very cold garage it won't work too well.
Below 8 degrees or thereabouts, the refridgerant gas can't extract any heat from the surrounding air, so it doesn't work particularly well.
John :)

Thanks for your reply. I think we have now come to the same conclusions we warmed the garage with a fan heater and the freeezer started to work.
 
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It can be to do with the "climate class" of your particular fridge freezer - basically the operating environment specified by the manufacturer.

If your fridge freezer has just one thermostat shared between both halves then you can run into problems whenever the ambient temperature in your garage falls to below the temp the fridge is trying to maintain, but stays above the temp you want your freezer to be at. The thermostat will shut the appliance down (because it's happy that the inside of the fridge is ok temp-wise) but if that goes on for a while the freezer will start to defrost.
Thanks for your reply which promted me to ring manufacturer as we don't have handbook and the lowest recommended temp is 5 degrees and of course it has been much colder so I think that is the problem.
Fuller explanation here:-

http://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/wordpress/freezer-defrosted-can-you-put-a-fridge-feezer-in-a-garage/
 

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