ERD50
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freezers could care less about room temperature/outside temperature. freezers remove the heat from the inside of the freezer, regardless of the outside temp. and yes, I have a freezer in my garage. it's a small chest type.
Hmm, that is the first time I ever heard this. I have always been told that using a refrigerator or freezer in high temps places stress on the compressor.
Good, because kitesurfer2's information is wrong, on several levels (and I assume he meant "couldn't care less"?).
Yes, freezers remove heat from the inside, but they have to 'dump' that heat to the outside. The colder it is outside, the more efficient that heat transfer is. Think "delta T". It's really common sense, as we observe it in our daily lives. A hot cup of coffee certainly cools faster if you put it outside on a winter day, versus a hot summer day.
And the other affect is insulation - a hot garage will conduct more heat through the walls into the freezer, causing it to run more often/longer. Clearly, if it is near freezing in our garage in winter, our freezer barely runs.
Be careful about adding insulation to the walls of a freezer, some of them use the cabinet to dissipate the heat.
As Texas Proud mentioned earlier, I've found that freezers seem to be designed to run about 50% duty cycle under normal conditions, so even if running 100% of the time on a hot day, the bill really can't do more than double over that time.
-ERD50