Small Freezer with no Auto Defrost.

I appreciate the feedback. Subjects like this always spark lots of debate. A dedicated unit seemed like a reasonable purchase to me. Still, hearing your okay feels like real headway.

The machine keeps its cool easier since air heats fast but solids retain chill better overall.

I'm wondering if I need to add water inside the packs or just leave them empty to take up space.

Yeah I'm choosing to fill them since the ice keeps chill longer than air does.

I went along with the notion at first. But then a compact freezer opening from the top caught my interest and changed my thinking. Earlier I had pictured using a sealed replica of a tough box, with some lining added on the inside. It seemed the defrost intervals would barely affect conditions inside the enclosure.

When I build up more supply I might try something else instead. At the moment the spare refrigerator holds extra groceries along with my peptide stock, haha.

I stored the peps at the lowest shelf and the temperature stayed right at minus twenty degrees. Those plastic cold packs were included as well. I turned the control knob all the way to the coldest position. The knob can be found towards the rear of the unit.

The link you shared indicates the minimum level comes in at negative ten.

I checked out the knob myself. It reaches up to 6. Setting it at the highest makes things somewhat noisy, reaching levels like minus fifteen or twenty. Dropping it to four brings it closer to minus ten or eleven. That makes things noticeably softer in volume. The additional nine degrees probably don't matter much anyway. Could be mistaken though.

Even at the fourth position the default dips under negative ten yet energy remains abundant. The engineer needs to supply extra power.

I think this involves choosing a number from one to seven. Yeah, what you said matches what I'm seeing. My temperature monitors show the middle and top sections hovering near minus ten, while the lowest part stays right at minus twenty.

That makes sense to me too. We don't find it loud at all. So we're running at maximum cool. From what I've seen the ideal range falls between minus twenty and minus fifty. Still minus ten holds up fine.

That’s great.

My appliance features a temperature display panel upfront where I've dialed it in at minus thirty. Normally it holds steady right there. Opening the door makes the shown value rise to minus twenty and it holds for around ten minutes.