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Yeah, so we buy a freezer from my gf's aunt a couple of years back, put it in a truck and take it from her aunt's apartment to our house. We grunt it though our back door, flick on the downstairs lights and take it into the basement. We plug it in and it seems to be running fine but as the days go by we realize it's not freezing things properly. For some reason it seems to be freezing and then thawing out. We ruin a couple of hundred bucks worth of food this way but we're not going to complain to the aunt so we just decide to unplug it and use it for a potato bin or something.
Time goes by (like a year and a half), we don't get another freezer, that is until a couple of weeks ago when we see an old one at a yard sale. People selling it say it's working fine, they had just thawed it out and we shouldn't have any problems. So we pay our monies, get it to our backdoor, flick on the basement lights, grunt it downstairs and put it next to the freezer that doesn't work. Plug it in, seems to be working fine, leave it for a few hours and see that it's getting nice and cold. Great! I go upstairs, turn off the basement lights and decide to check on it again in the morning.
Morning comes, I check on the freezer and it's running but it's warm. WTF?
I'm scratching my head, thinking we just bought another dud freezer...then I start tracing the exposed wiring for the electrical outlet...the one that, it turns out, is wired to the same junction box as the basement lights controlled by the switch at the top of the stairs.
Anyone want a used freezer? We have two. They both work great.
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