Northair 3.5 Cu Ft Chest Freezer - 2 Removable Baskets - Quiet Compact Freezer - 7 Temperature Settings - Black

Rest, assured, I will update this review when I have had it more than the four days (14 days now, still good) we have had it.- undamaged upon delivery. Maybe they responded to reviewers complaints, because it came very thoroughly cosseted in styrofoam.Since I am the big eater in our household, I am always crowding my wife’s stuff into a corner of the refrigerator's freezer compartment. She can’t find the ice cream or chicken fettuccine or whatever, covered as it is by hotdogs, bacon, and tubs of homemade spaghetti sauce. This will solve the problem, I think. We shall see.- I Just let it sit as advised for the first 11 hours with power off to let any fluids settle.- Turned it on and set it to the “medium“ number of four as recommended to start.- very quiet indeed. If you’re hearing isn’t that good, you know the compressor is on because the green light on the front goes on.- Working temperature is supposed to be reached within 24 hours. The walls were freezing within three hours. this was at an external temperature of 64° F.I worry that the insulation might be somewhat insufficient. I am tempted to wrap it an extra insulation, but that could cover the heat exchange coils and defeat their purpose.I have settled by throughing a couple of heavy foam pads atop the lid. It seems to be efficient enough as it is. It has stayed near 3.5 F °for days now at a setting one number warmer than medium.As I said, I will jump right on it with an update if there are any problems. Reading the reviews– it seems that reliability can be a problem in a somewhat random way. I am hoping that I am one of the satisfied customers.p.s. I didn’t tell my wife that I purchased it. It’s stashed in a corner of the garage (we live in a mild climate) and so far she hasn’t even noticed it. It’s that inconspicuous.

bought for dippin dots!! keeps the dippin dots at -40° and have had no problems. packaging was great and super easy to remove, no dents! we have put ice cream and other things in the freezer. holds a decent amount of stuff! super great purchase

Perfect size to store my dogs food

Very spacious and with the 4 baskets, I have some options rather than just piling the food in the bottom. I think they could come up with a lower level sliding tray or basket, which would make for more options, but probably at a higher cost. In hindsight, I should have shopped local (Lowe's), as I found a similar chest freezer for about $200 less. Might have been a crappy brand/model, so I'm not too upset. I like the temperature control feature, as it's outside and not inside like some older models. It sure would have been nice to have an external temperature gauge, like maybe on top of the lid, possibly on one of the sides?? From reading the guide, if I want 0 degrees F, then the temp knob goes to 4 or 5, or in between, I'll figure it out once I get a freezer thermometer for it. I'm looking forward to using this and already moved all the freezer packs we've seemed to collect over the years into this. If nothing else, will free up space in the freezer in the house (Installed this chest freezer in the garage). I was a little annoyed that I couldn't elevate the install by using bricks, but the bottom of the chest just wasn't set up in a way that I could do that, nor did I see a way to mount any wheels or "feet", as it already has a couple of rubber "feet" on one end. I did have to shim one corner to stabilize it, but it wasn't terrible and it sits pretty steady on the concrete floor. My garage is detached from the house but I have power to the garage, so standard house plug in electrical is available. My only somewhat concern is during hot summers, the inside of the garage CAN get pretty hot, and on the flip side, during very cold winters it can get quite chilly; will have to see how it goes, but I think it will be fine. I had a smaller fridge/freezer (Bottom/top) in upstate NY back in 2002 and a couple of winters got down to BELOW -30 for a couple of weeks straight - anything left in the door position got frozen (Was installed in attached garage, which was unheated). I still have this fridge/freezer today in NC, but about a year ago or so, the freezer pretty much quit, even though the fridge still functions. I should be happy I got that many years out of an el-cheapo fridge brand.

Son far so good not sure if it’s supposed to make a sound tho

I've had this freezer for 3.5 years, through three different moves, and it does it's job. If you overfill it, which I have a bad habit of doing, it'll ice over and a little and the seal won't stay done unless you put an item on top, but I've keep thermometer probe in it and it'll still keep temperature. The only nice addition would be a door alarm, but that's why I added the temperature probe.

This is great! Small…for the room I had. Love this.

I was so excited to set up my freezer in doing so I consulted the manual. You can't use extension cord with freezer, you have to locate freezer in a place that doesn't go below 37 degrees or above 80 degrees or next to anything that puts off heat like the fridge, heater vents ECT. The cord is pretty short, the manual says to contact electrician to install an outlet where you want to locate freezer.Non of that applies to me I live completely on solar and batteries I have more than enough power to run the freezer but manual says in big letters not to run on an inverter!When I was shopping for a freezer I read the entire add because I had to locate the wattage I seen nothing about not being able to run off grid. Otherwise I would not have purchased it. The seller is awesome! He is refunding me and accepting a return. I'm sure an update to the add will be coming. I think this freezer would be great for someone that has grid power I really liked that it came with two sliding baskets.