That is why I added freezer alarms to both of my freezers. If I remember right, I found them on the internet for about $15 each. They run on AA batteries and make a lot of racket if a door gets left open, and I assume they would also sound off if the freezer failed or the power was off too long.
I discovered that my old chest freezer had failed when I heard the starting circuit cycling, but did not hear the motor start up. My food, which included a half of beef and several turkeys was still quite cold, but it was all thawed. I saved the beef by immediately refreezing it in the new freezer I bought that night. The quality of that meat was WAY lower than it should have been, but at least we got some good out of it. The rest of the stuff in the freezer got tossed. The magpies ate well for a while. I ended up with about 2" of red liquid in the bottom of the chest freezer. At first I thought it must be all meat juice, but then realized that there had been huckleberries and other fruit that had melted.
I was really glad I found the freezer problem when I did. Another couple of days and it would have smelled pretty putrid and it would have been even more of an unpleasant job to clean it out.
I tinkered with the chest freezer, but could not get it to come on again, even manually operating the relay. I suspect that the motor went bad--it was bought in the 1950"s.
The alarms work pretty well and don"t cost that much. I have a little trouble remembering to change the batteries, but I test the alarms once in a while to make sure they still work, by leaving the door open for a few minutes. In my opinion, the alarms are really worth having. Good luck!
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