[Ladygolfer93]

Talked to a neighbor about this today (still reluctant to start it up...LOL) Neighbor's advice was to make absolutely sure the plug in NOT a GFCI. Like me, his house has two of these in the garage and the rest are not. His story: they were away for several months. There was a storm, no lightening hit their house or anything, but the electricity was off for several blocks around them. When SECO got the power back on in less than one hour, most things (lights in the homes, refrigerators in kitchens, etc. came ON), but because they had unknowingly used one of the two GFCI plugs, the freezer never came back on because no one was there to "reset" the plug ! ! They lost over $600 in meat and salmon alone, plus other items in the freezer. Hope if anyone else has this situation they can move to a plug which would resume without someone being there should you be away when there is a power interruption ! ! Expensive lesson to THINK when deciding when and for what to use these plugs.

Yes, neighbor talked to me today to tell me no matter what, just make sure I do NOT attempt to plug the new freezer into a GFCI ! They lost over $600 and the smell, time, and effort to clean this all up was overwhelming !