SweetHeatBBQnSC
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This straight up sucks. Especially when it's your livelihood. Hoping for better days for ya.
That absolutely sucks.
I had a similar issue, but not on a retail scale. I had some very expensive Wagyu in our freezer as well as a year's worth of venison. Wife accidentally left the freezer door ajar. Lost most of the freezer's contents.
Since then I use a sensor push and it has saved me at least one other time already by sending an alert to my phone when the freezer wasn't shut and the temp was rising. Worth every penny!
https://www.sensorpush.com/
How did it fail? I get alerts when the battery gets low or when it loses connectivity. Curious what happened unless you changed something on your wireless network?
I've been very impressed with the solution overall.
That absolutely sucks.
I had a similar issue, but not on a retail scale. I had some very expensive Wagyu in our freezer as well as a year's worth of venison. Wife accidentally left the freezer door ajar. Lost most of the freezer's contents.
Since then I use a sensor push and it has saved me at least one other time already by sending an alert to my phone when the freezer wasn't shut and the temp was rising. Worth every penny!
https://www.sensorpush.com/
Man this does suck. I had a similar thing happen at the restaurant about 5 years ago , but it was my dumb ass not equipment issues. I wanted to get a jump on the ribs for the next morning, so I stayed late the night before to prep them. And I left them on the prep table, instead of back into the walk in. I was not happy with myself the next morning, but had only myself to blame. And additional prep work to get non spoiled ribs prepped for the day. I remember that feeling when I read you post.
On a different note, I have had great luck using the Johnson Controls A419 to control a freezer like you are. It is digital and you can set your desired presets pretty tight.
I work in dialysis and about 3 years ago one of the refrigerators we store medication in failed. We lost nearly $20K in medications.Kind of a rough morning to be honest. I had 30 racks of ribs stored in my chest refrigerator to be cooked for a lunch service today (BBQ food truck). I had the smoker fired up and went to grab the ribs out of the refrigerator and they were warm to the touch...felt like I had been kicked in the family jewels. I temped them just to be sure and they were at 55° internally. I even opened the cryovac just to make sure they were bad and was immediately hit with the smell of spoiled food. :sad:
Not only am I out roughly $250, but with nothing open overnight anymore, I'm missing another day of work. With Covid likely coming back and the 2nd wave of shutdowns already starting in some areas, I was really hoping to get in as much work as possible for the rest of this month and early into November.
For a refrigerator I've got a chest freezer which I run through a "kill switch" style external control. So essentially it's a chest freezer which functions as a large refrigerator...awesome in terms of storage. For the last 2 years this hasn't failed me a single time, but somehow the dial got messed up and instead of running between 35-40°, it was running between 55-60°. I've turned it back to where it's supposed to be and it's now it's running just fine...I think my cats might have messed with it because I refused to overfeed them. haha
I bought the RT-801 refrigerator / freezer thermometer from Thermoworks this morning. I've been looking at one for a while because I always had a feeling something like this would happen. The RT-801 pretty much acts just like a Thermoworks Smoke in that you can set high / low temps with alarms, so it should stop me from losing food in the future.
I hope everyone is having a better day than me! :mrgreen:
On the J/C A19, you can remove the adjustment knob from the front of the control. It may make it less likely to be bumped in the future. The dial stays in place. I think there is also a screw inside that you can tighten to prevent the dial from moving once set too.
I did try to pull the adjusting knob off, but no dice. I don't see any set screw or anything holding the dial in place. I'll mess with it again later and see if I can figure it out. Thanks so much!