Thanks for posting that. I just finished watching the entire video, which was very interesting. Took a bit of a dark turn just before the 12:00 mark, but that's reality.
Cold front coming = Frozen chemicals
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Nope.
Overnight Chlorine Loss Test
SLAM Process (if OCLT fails)
If you need to add something for the sake of adding something to satisfy that itch, add more bleach.
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Here I sit with my 2 freezers & 1 fridge basically outdoors with 13 degree lows.
Never had any problems even when we went to 4 degrees F.
Not really sure how I can do much about it though even if I wanted to.
They must be older units. More recently, they put such little refrigerant in them, that if the temperature drops below 53F, the compressor just dry-cycles, as the small amount of liquid refrigerant in the system is all pooled in the condenser. It's a serious problem, for anyone who keeps newer refrigerators in cold garages. The dry-cycled compressor is still using power, so while it's not generating any cooling via evaporation in the condenser, it is adding heat to the system. This can turn your refrigerator into a cooker, in the wost-case scenarios, although this cycling will sometimes put enough heat into the refrigeration loop to get it to start working again. If you leave a thermometer with min/max recording in your fridge under these conditions, you may find it shoots up to 70F, before the system gets warm enough to expand some of the refrigerant into the compressor, and then the temperature drops back down toward the set point.
Growing up, we had a 1953 GE refrigerator in our garage, which would run fine no matter how cold the garage got. But by "fine", I mean it used an absolutely obscene amount of electricity in all weather conditions. It probably contained as much refrigerant as 20 modern refrigerators.
When mom moved out of that house to her current place, we took the 1980's refrigerator from the kitchen and put it in her new garage. Also running fine, and used a good bit less juice than the 1953 model.
When I moved to my current house, there was an early-2000's refrigerator in the garage, which had its limits, but still had a wider operating temperature range than the three newer units I bought ca-2018.
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Thankfully all my freezers are remaining in the sub zero range. They are both only a couple years old. They aren’t “garage ready” models or anything. The one fridge is an older one- probably 90’s model. Nothing super important in it. Beer & pickles lol 
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I beg to differ. Those ARE very important!Nothing super important in it. Beer & pickles lol
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Absolutely! Thats why we have so many. I eat them every day.
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Cool. Our house smells like a pickle factory during the growing season. I can take or leave pickles but the wife LOVES them.
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When God provides the bounty you preserve preserve preserve! Some years its a bajillion tomatoes, some years cucumbers or peppers. Last year it was cucumbers.