CDN Audio Visual Freezer Alarm
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of CDN Audio Visual Freezer Alarm
Customer Review: For the most part, it does what it says.
Summary: 4 Stars
For the most part, this product does what it says. We have it in a chest style freezer in the garage. Since we don't use this freezer every day, we've been burned twice by the freezer tripping the garage GFCI and us not noticing until all the food had thawed and gone bad. I've since moved the freezer to a non-GFCI outlet, but this freezer alarm is cheap insurance against everything in your deep freeze going bad.
The alarm trips at about 20 degrees F, which gives you plenty of warning. Just make sure you place the sensor in a good spot. I stuck our sensor near the top of the freezer, twist tied to the bottom of one of the freezer's wire baskets that hangs from the top of the unit. the alarm itself is stuck to the wall behind the chest freezer. The alarm is just loud enough to be heard inside the house when it goes off. This would only be a problem if you're hard of hearing and/or you've got your freezer in the garage, basement, or other out of the way spot that you can't easily hear from the rooms you usually live in.
Customer Review: Works well with one adjustment
Summary: 4 Stars
As other reviewers have said there is a problem with the alarm sounding when the freezer is in the defrost cycle. Also depending where you place the probe, the alarm may sound just because you open the freezer door. To accommodate these problems we put the sensor inside a hamburger bun and placed the bun inside a sandwich bag with the wire coming out and then placed the bag on the shelf near the door opening. If the door is left open, the temperature of the bun will increase within 5-10 minutes, and then the alarm will sound. This has reliably saved the contents of our freezer at least 5 or 6 times in the past 2 months. In addition during the defrost cycle the bun stays frozen and cold enough that the alarm does not sound then. If indeed the alarm sounds because the door was left open, you will have to turn off the alarm until the hamburger bun is again cold enough that alarm will no longer sound - probably 15 minutes. We are pleased with this solution.Customer Review: Works great for top load freezers no so much on regular fridge/freezer combo
Summary: 4 Stars
Like the title reads, this works great for a top load freezer. When the fuse tripped in our basement we lost a lot of food when we discovered the mess five days later. I bought this and the next time the fuse tripped, it was only a matter of hours, not days. Sounds like a cheap bedside LED alarm clock beeping, irritating and loud enough to make you wonder what's going on. So I bought one for the garage fridge/freezer combo which we use in the summer. This did not work out as well, since it's gone off a few times when the power was fine to the garage unit. SO I would only recommend this for a top loader freezer that doesn't cycle as much as a smaller kitchen model. It has a set cold limit and it not programmable. But it's cheap and effective in most cases. If you're a hunter and store lots of meat in your freezer, this is a worthwhile investment.Customer Review: Do Not Buy!
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased the alarm because my kids were always leaving the freezer door open resulting in defrosted popsicles, ice cream, meat, and the like. I bought the alarm and installed it as directed after spending a day defrosting the large, upright freezer. (Both my husband and I are engineers, so you can be certain we followed the directions to a "T".) To my surprise, two days later the freezer door was open, frost had built up on the metal shelves, and NO ALARM WAS GOING OFF! I pulled the alarm off the instructed location and put it outside the freezer to see if maybe the batteries were bad. No, the alarm sounded. DO NOT BUY THIS! We now have to defrost the freezer for the second time in a week. I plan to return this worthless device.Customer Review: It Works Fine
Summary: 4 Stars
We purchased this device for the same reason most everyone else did, they already lost food. The device didn't like our defrost cycle so I put bubble wrap around the sensor (as in the directions) and it still didn't solve the problem. I then moved the sensor toward the lower part of the freezer (uprightstyly) compartment and now it works fine. We placed the alarm part near our cold air return and so can hear the alarm through our duct work. Another option for those complaning about the freezer sounder being to soft in volume, hook up a baby monitor and you can hear the alarm anywhere the baby monitor can transmit. Ye ha