Freezer not freezing (2 coolers, 5 tiles.)

[Godfish]

Here's a screenshot.
This room has 2 coolers both set to -5c and it has a roof, yet it still raises above 0c occasionly. any ideas as to why this might be so?

[Pleccy]

There is a door connected to the room with a heater right outside, doors let through heat.

[Godfish]

Originally posted by pleccymm:

doors let through heat.

I did not know that. Any idea how to fix this?

[Pleccy]

Remove the door put one in the space behind it then expand one backwards.

[Slye_Fox]

Doors let heat through at a largely reduced amount (compared to an open space).
So do walls, build double tick walls & double doors to retain the heat.

[🥇 Xaxoon 🥇]

Hi, when a heatwave arrives, temperatures in your freezer rise as well. not logical, but it is like this ingame. best is to set your freezer to -19°C like in real life. So your freezer keeps cold, even a power failure happens.

[ShadowTani]

Temperatures leaks across rooms even through walls though, so during a heat wave all rooms around it will rise in temperature causing also the freezer to have higher temperatures leak into it. That's why it then have more trouble keeping the temperatures low.

One can protect against the temperature leak somewhat by building doubly thick walls, lots of single walls can be a bigger factor than the doors, though might not be with such a small space.

Also don't keep heated rooms hotter then necessary, pawns usually thrive fine in 10C, so you don't need to pump the temp to the logical 21-24C. Edit: Bedrooms is the exception, they need temps over 15C or something like that to avoid the "slept in cold" mood debuff.

[🥇 Xaxoon 🥇]

Originally posted by ShadowTani:

Temperatures leaks across rooms even through walls though, so during a heat wave all rooms around it will rise in temperature causing also the freezer to have higher temperatures leak into it. That's why it then have more trouble keeping the temperatures low....

So, our settlers dont know anything about insulation? In a heat wave, the power consumption rises, thats all what happens normaly. This is, because more warmer air comes in the freezer when it is opened, the engines has to work for a longer time to hold the temperature. If a freezer would loose temperature because of a heat weave, we restaurateurs would have a big problem :-)

[ShadowTani]

Well, I can't argue about real life, but that's how the game mechanisms are now -> insulated walls = double walls.

It's not pretty though, so some of us been telling Tynan to add insulated single walls. If they require more expensive materials then double walls can act as a cheap early-colony solution instead.

[grapplehoeker]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758485445
Why is it so small though? Don't you refrigerate your food preparation area too? Why not focus there and provide plenty of space? 2 or 3 coolers can adequately regulate a very large room.

[🥇 Xaxoon 🥇]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758485445
Why is it so small though? Don't you refrigerate your food preparation area too? Why not focus there and provide plenty of space? 2 or 3 coolers can adequately regulate a very large room.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758520629
This is how big my freezers are, as you can see, they are really big :-) enough freezing compressors, and temperature to -19°C or less, and i nevber has had problems at all :-)

I have 2 of them, one with rare meat, because if i get raided by menhunters, there is such a big amount of meat, it would not fit in one freezer, since my main freezer is most of the time filled with cooked food :-)

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Xaxoon:

This is how big my freezers are, as you can see, they are really big :-)

Heh, now that is big enough ;)
I prefer to wall in my geothermal though. Raiders tend to like sabotaging power and while I don't mind them denting my solar or wind plants, I definitely keep them off my geothermals.
Btw, what are those structures to the left and right of your wind turbines? I don't recognise them.

[🥇 Xaxoon 🥇]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by Xaxoon:

This is how big my freezers are, as you can see, they are really big :-)

Heh, now that is big enough ;)
I prefer to wall in my geothermal though. Raiders tend to like sabotaging power and while I don't mind them denting my solar or wind plants, I definitely keep them off my geothermals.
Btw, what are those structures to the left and right of your wind turbines? I don't recognise them.

this is a turret mod, 3 more turrets, not imba but specialised. for close combat, or for sniper like turrets. But even with lots of them, they cant handle a raid alone, my soldiers have to fight as well :-) And this turrets really need lot of power, half of my settlement consists out of power supplies :-)

[K]

I have a 12*18 area with 5 coolers, but that's because I had a 54° heat wave. Before that heat wave 2 were enough.

[Concrete Galoshes]

I'd turn that little storage room right there, into your freezer.
Plus you've got AC units going while your heater is going. Ya' goof.

[Godfish]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758485445
Why is it so small though? Don't you refrigerate your food preparation area too? Why not focus there and provide plenty of space? 2 or 3 coolers can adequately regulate a very large room.

my colonists were eating in a colonist bedroom instead of the rec room, because it was the closest table + chair to the food (even though the table's gather spot was set to X) so I moved the meals to a freezer just off the rec room. there was no need for it to be large, since I only mantain 50 meals in storage.