Hello Pestlist, I have a question related to freezing treatment temperatures.
At the museum I work at, we recently put a data logger in our freezer. We took the readout this morning, and now have our first chart showing the temperature conditions inside over the course of a full 7-day week. Something came up on the readout that I wanted to run past this group and see if anyone had any opinions on it. The "base/normal" temp in the freezer is -28 F, and it holds that pretty steady. There were 8 temp spikes though. The doors remained shut the entire week, and my guess is the spikes are related to a defrost cycle. The spikes were all virtually identical and lasted 55 minutes. The temp went from -28 to -14, then back to -28, with about 20-25 minutes of temps warmer than -22 (I have heard -22 F is a significant temp relating to freezing effectiveness- is that true?). Does anyone have an opinion on whether or not spikes where the temp rises between -22 F and -14 F for 20-25 minutes would have a significant affect on a freezing treatment? My guess is there will be approx. 10 of these spikes per week, but we will see about that as more weekly charts come in. If anyone has an opinion or thoughts they would be appreciated. Thanks, Todd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAMxAh%2Bi_c%3DmzW1kaQd1Om3iPPsQTbh-X%2B-4i2Cc018dYrPFQ%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
