CDN Audio Visual Freezer Alarm
by Component Design Northwest
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of CDN Audio Visual Freezer Alarm
Customer Review: A great alarm system for your freezer at a reasonable price.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great alarm system that is very easy to install. The only problem that I can see with this system is its rather low volume audible warning sound system. The audible warning sound "beep" is OK for inside the house but if you have a freezer in an attached garage, as my wife's mother has, you can't hear the "beeps" from inside the house so you'd never know there was a problem unless you entered the garage proper.
Still, from what I've seen, this is still the best freezer alarm on the market for the price.
Customer Review: Affordable necessary item for homes
Summary: 5 Stars
I have searched the internet for an item like this and found many for a resturant application, but this is the first one for home use that I have found. It is exactly what I have been looking for. Thanks for making this item!!Customer Review: Defective - returned
Summary: 1 Stars
I was pretty excited by the idea of peace of mind for $10. I read all the other reviews and seemed like as long as you use this for a stand-alone freezer, you're in good shape. I was wrong...
During the initial set-up, my first concern was that after installing the battery, the double sided tape provided gets applied OVER the batter compartment. That means that come time to replace the battery (every 12 months is recommended on the package), you need to peel off all the double sided tape from the device and then go buy a roll so you can reapply it to the freezer. Design flaw...
Anyway, I followed the directions: I applied the control to the outside, ran the wire inside, down the back, and ensured the end of the wire was not in contact with any food or ice packs. A few hours later, after giving it a chance to adjust to the internal temperature, I turned it on.
The next morning, I came downstairs to the alarm going off. I checked the freezer: fully functional. So I removed it and returned it to Amazon (hassle-free - thank you Amazon!).
I'll go look either for something of higher quality, or else just use a power monitor with alarm on the plug.
(By the way - noteworthy that in suggested "tags" for this review, "worthless" was suggested already...)
Customer Review: Do Not Buy!
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased the alarm because my kids were always leaving the freezer door open resulting in defrosted popsicles, ice cream, meat, and the like. I bought the alarm and installed it as directed after spending a day defrosting the large, upright freezer. (Both my husband and I are engineers, so you can be certain we followed the directions to a "T".) To my surprise, two days later the freezer door was open, frost had built up on the metal shelves, and NO ALARM WAS GOING OFF! I pulled the alarm off the instructed location and put it outside the freezer to see if maybe the batteries were bad. No, the alarm sounded. DO NOT BUY THIS! We now have to defrost the freezer for the second time in a week. I plan to return this worthless device.Customer Review: Does not do well with auto-defrost freezers
Summary: 2 Stars
Auto-defrost refrigerators/freezers cycle their temperature between 0 degrees F and above 25 degrees F. Unfortunately, this alarm doesn't accomodate the cycle resulting in false alarms. The owners manual offers a cop-out solution, "wrap the sensor in foam". OK -- so how does one calibrate the sensor and know that it is set properly? It would take a lot of trial an error, adding foam, removing foam . . . who has time for that? It needs a switch where the consumer can pick the alarm temperature.