Igloo - 5.2 Cu. Ft. Chest Freezer - Seashell White

You know I read EVERY review here and all the well spoken ones were praising its energy efficiency! I wish ONE of the other owners would actually verify it's claims. Short Answer: Specifications Claim 172 KWh/year (Div 365) = 0.47KWh/day. Reality: Full freezer brought to temp -18C(minimum recommended for deep freezer) for 24-36hrs, then monitored with a power meter, consumes 2.3KWh/Day. ie: $88/Year to run vs $18 reported on the big EnergyGuide notice. Ambient Room temp was 72F. There are no unexpected sounds or other issues with this well appearing unit, I expect there are no problems with it otherwise. Nice feature is the thermostat has a refrigerator setting! I wonder if they gave its energy rating based on it being a fridge. The drain plug is in the bottom of the unit, a pan is required to drain/collect water. This could be good to plumb a drain outside, if used as a fridge. I really like the look/function, but I can't use it if it's taking as much power as it appears to be. I will be returning this one, but not sure if I should waste my time testing a second one. I need this for off-grid project I am planning and it's doing MUCH worse than a similar freezer I tested from 2002(which took about 0.8KWH/day). Please you freezer reviewers do independent power tests, get yourself a "Kill-A-Watt" meter or similar(there are other makes out there just as good). --- My notes: Igloo - 5.2 Cu. Ft. Chest Freezer: Model: FRF452 12:30pm Dec 12th, Ambient temp around 75F, Freezer about -18c; 25lb/3 gallons of solid/frozen ice in middle. 12:30am Dec 13th, Ambient ~75F, Freezer: -18C > 1.14 KWh after 13hrs: 12:30pm Dec 13th, Ambient ~72F, Freezer: -19C : 1.67Kwh after 24hrs. Freezer at temp(-18c), stuffed full of 7 Gallons of water, 7Gal/water, 2 Gal sugar, and other mass, powermeter reset to 0. 12:00pm Dec 14th, Ambient ~72F, Freezer: -18C : 0kwh 12:37am Dec 15th, Ambient ~72F, Freezer: : 1.24Kwh after 12hr 37min 12:16pm Dec 15th, Ambient ~70F, Freeser: -21C : 2.38KWh after 24hr 15min; runtime of meter also. before it said 17hrs in 24hr peroid. 1:15am Dec 16, Ambient ~72F, FReezer: -20C ; 3.58Kwh; Still testing, but I don't expect it to change at this point. Will post again if something reveals itself.

It was easy to store in or basement. It has more than enough storage for meats and other items. It is efficient and energy-efficient.

I bought one ..opened the box body was damaged very badly..replaced it and again it's slightly damaged piece...it's very poorly built. Function wise OK.. I bought it because I wanted to use some rewards point otherwise I would have returned it... would not recommend to any body...

My wife and I got this freezer because her brother is a hunter/farmer and occasionally has a great deal of meat he just gives to us. Obviously this all doesn't fit in a kitchen refrigerator with the peas and frozen potato fritters. It's the right size for us at 5.5 cubic feet. The interior is stainless steel, which is fine, though we would have preferred the cleaner look of white plastic... but at the price, whatever. It gets cold quickly. There's an adjustment dial on the front and a power light and another light that indicates when it's actively cooling. There's a little shelf inside, which is convenient, and a nonmoveable basket about eight inches wide and two, two and a half feet deep. The directions were clear. Unpacking was beyond simple: You just cut off the plastic strips holding the box together, and lift. That's really all there is to it. There's a sort of a styrofoam pallet that's part of the box that it sits on (more on this later). Things we didn't like so much... To defrost it you have to pull out a small plug inside to let the water out, which is fine, but it drains directly to the floor out the bottom. No frills on this one. They suggest you put a tray under it, but I see no practical way to use said tray to get rid of the water without sloshing half of it on the floor. You also need to lift the entire refrigerator to get the tray in the right spot, which gets harder if there's hundreds of pounds of food in there. One thing that probably is unique to the specific unit we bought was that there's a thin steel bottom plate that'd gotten bent somehow, leaving a sharp corner that'd want to dig into a vinyl floor. like we have. Our solution to this was to leave it sitting on that little styrofoam pad that came with the box. This would make it harder to drain it for defrosting if we use that plug, but we were going to just pull out the melting blocks of ice anyway and towel up the rest, either way. This is a solid unit that does what we want. It's not a gold-plated thing by any means. We got it on sale from $199 to $159. Assuming we do get a few years out of it, I think it's more than worth the price.

We just needed something to take the load off of the dinky freezer on our refrigerator and be able to stock up. We did not need something huge, and we only had a couple of hundred dollars to spare. This unit is working out great, except after a few weeks it would not freeze food--it would keep it at refrigerator temperature. I unplugged it for about an hour and plugged it back in, and it's been working great since. I suspect that it may be because we have it in the garage, and it has been at least 90 degrees everyday since we bought it, and some days in the 100's, so I wonder if its little compressor had been running continuously and just could not keep up and needed to rest a bit. So I'm keeping an eye on it, but so far so good. Otherwise, I like that it has a light to show its plugged in, and a light goes on when the compressor is running.

I’ve had this freezer for almost 7 years exactly and it just stopped working. The green indicator light was still on so I thought it was working. However, I realized it wasn’t working because my food was defrosting when I went to grab something out. I have another brand deep freezer that I purchased prior to this one, and it’s still working.

I recommend you buy a thermometer and keep an eye on it. The next morning after I plugged it in it said -20F. I thought Great! Put some ice cream, Blue and Gold sausage and my daughter's top wedding tier in it. Got a couple of extra bags of ice and put them in there also. Noticed the next day the green light didn't shut off. By the next evening the temp had warmed up to 33F and food starting to get soft. Returned it immediately to Best Buy and got another. 3 weeks later, so far so good!

The jury is still out. The first two days it was freezing bowls of water rock hard in a few hours. A couple weeks in, after filling the freezer about 1/2 capacity some items were not freezing totally. After inspection it appeared the water drain had popped open causing this problem. Since then there is still some uneven freezing. If by next week this isn't resolved we will be calling the manufacturer.