I was looking at those Wifi units, an alarm doesn't do much good if no one is home, i.e. vacation.

OK, but it certainly helps when you are not on vacation.

Gringo Bling, the unit I purchased has a sensor that goes in the freezer, there is the actual alarm that goes in the house, so it is wireless. I don't know what the range is. If you look online for one to buy, I think you could find the info you need. I don't know anything about the ones connected to Wi-Fi.

To make sure I get the alerts when I need them, I researched WiFi options. With WiFI, even if nobody is home or on vacation, I can always get a friend or neighbor to use the keypad on my garage to access my freezer if necessary. I ended up going with the Ubibot WS1 WiFi Temperature Humidity Monitor. I don't know if I need it or not, but I also went ahead and ordered a temperature probe. Total for both is ~$100. If I don't need the probe, the monitor is ~$85.

Yeah, Ive been burnt by the old trusty GFCI a couple times. Lots of options for alarms but only seen one mentioned here. Any others that have served you well?

I have a freezer that I inherited from my aunt almost 20 years ago. It's a smaller upright Amana that she had bought at an unclaimed freight place in Dallas in 1952 and is still working perfectly. The only thing that has ever been done to it, was I had to replace the seal on it about 12 years ago.

Still works just great until the GFI kicks it off. After the third time it happened and I lost about 300lbs of red deer meat, I now plug it into the same circuit that my garage door openers are on. Problem solved!!!

When we bought our house, we purchased an upright deep freeze a couple months later. The weekend before buying the freezer I installed a new 20 amp breaker, ran romex through the attic and down the wall, installed a junction box and a single outlet. Best thing a person can do is have a dedicated line for the meat freezer!
I also have an alarm for it just in case.

Wise words, sir.

I've had a couple of close calls over the years and lost some meat, but never the whole freezer worth. Thanks to this thread I now have alarms on both of mine

I bought a new freezer at Lowes a couple weeks back. They had several in stock.

JR

What size and price? I havent priced in a long time and probably need one.

I have a 40+ year old Amana chest freezer in the garage.

Crossing my fingers.

Ask your electrician if he can add a couple of plugs up high on the walls in your garage. Code may be different or changed, but I was able to do this several years back on our build. Standard plugs and height in our garage on GFI but have one on each wall about 7 feet up that are not on GFI for this very reason.

In addition, the plug your garage door opener is on in the ceiling are not GFI (at least used to not be)

So which alarms do y’all recommend? I saw one of you posted a link to Amazon - mixed reviews about the audio level of the alarm. Wanting to get one ASAP. Been through the big loss twice. Both were human error, and not mine.

Time to get this done right once and for all!

Guess I will be looking into alarms also. Id rather bury the whole freezer or throw it out before I tried to clean out that nasty smelling stuff

the alarm unit is a good investment