> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:14:39 +0100, "Mortimer" privacy.net> wrote:
>

>>"John Wright" pegasus.f2s.com> wrote in message
>>news:vYCdnaXYJsOM9AnVnZ2dnUVZ8t_inZ2d@pipex.net...

>

>> We don't want a repeat
>>of the fiasco with deep freezes which have non-CFC refrigerant and
>>therefore
>>have to be kept in a room with a minimum temperture of 10 deg C - which
>>immediately wipes out the ability to keep a freezer in a garage or shed
>>:-(When my parents were looking to replace their freezer when it finally
>>broke down after about 25 years' service, the salesman actually
>>recommended
>>putting a greenhouse heater in the garage to keep the temperature above 10
>>on cold winter nights...)
>>

>
> Are you sure it wasn't a double door fridge freezer with a single
> compressor which doesn't run once the cooling requirement in the
> fridge section is satisfied, e.g. if the environment goes below about
> 8c ? We had one of those once and all the frozen food spoiled when we
> went away over Christmas temp Ca. 3C.

> Anyway, With respect I don't think it's right to blame non-CFC
> refrigerants.
>
> We now have a single European market that stretches from Cyprus to
> Sicily and Portugal in the south to as far north as Aberdeen,
> Peterhead and Wick on the UK mainland. It's not possible to make a
> single refrigerant/compressor system that works over such a wide
> temperature range so manufacturers make different models of their
> fridges suitable for several different temperature zones.
>
> For various reasons these different models have different prices, but
> if you go to a domestic appliance shed they just source and sell the
> cheapest one which, maybe because of demand / market size, tends to be
> suitable for Italy or Spain where they come from rather than say
> Penrith.