Counter Top Icemaker

Picked one up from Bj's the other day and I am bringing it back today, just not worth it. The concept is great but the design stinks. Takes a gallon of water at at time however the basket for the ice is only large enough for about 1/4 of the water. When the basket is full the thing stops making ice- which takes about 2 hours. So unless you check it every hour or so you will never get to that ~35lbs per day. For those of you wondering how large the basket is, itis smaller(1/3 of the size) than the ice bin you find on your average fridge which has an ice maker.

They need to redesign it so a larger basket can can be used, one that would hold the ice produced from the 1 gallon water hold capacity. This way you would only have to check it every 6 hours.
 
If you expect it to replace a regular ice maker [in a frig or stand alone], I'm sure you will be disappointed. It is what it is........
 
I've had one for about 3 years. Love it. I never buy ice. It will run off a Honda 2000 easily enough. The unit I have (I'd have to check the back for the brand/model) only revs the Honda up above idle for the first compressor cycle. After that, each cycle doesn't seem to require that much juice. If I start it between A/C cycles, I can run it all night with the a/c. However, I usually make a couple of batches of ice and the store them in the Waeco freezer (another fantastic investment, if you've got the room...darn thing can run all night, along with my 12v fridge, on a single group 31 battery).

--Kurt
 
Kurt is right, if you take the ice out of it when it fills up and store it somewhere else (freezer), you'll have more ice than you know what to do with. It'll fill up its own bin in about 2 hours - then empty it and let it keep on making ice. If you refill the 1 gallon tank daily, you'll have an endless supply of ice. It's different than a built-in icemaker, and requires a little more monitoring, but once you get used to it, I think you'll be really pleased with it.
 
We've had the Magic chef one for a year and a half. We live aboard. Never run out of ice. It's great. It pulls about 2 amps after start up. I haven't found a drawback and will get another if this one croaks.
 
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