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Has anyone tried one of these?? Interested in opinions on them as it could be a great addition.  

The specs say they make Ice 12Kg Per 24Hrs, have an Ice Making Current of 5.5A and an Ice Harvest Current: 6.4A (whatever that means). They are quite small 297W x 367D x 378H (mm)and only weigh 8.7kg.

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I've been looking at these for a while.  There are lots of videos about how they work, basically you pour the water in the bottom, it pumps it up to make the ice.  When they fall off the "harvest" pushes them all off into the basket.  Get good reviews, although a little strange as there are lots of different brands but they all look exactly the same....

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We have the 240V version as it was $150 from Container door. We were running it through our $250 2000w inverter (also Container Door) and it was awesome over summer. We'd typically run it when the solar had filled up the batteries or when we were motoring somewhere and had excess power, then put the ice cubes in the freezer in snap lock bags for drinkies later. 

 

We also found that it gets much more efficient if you cool the water beforehand or throw in some mangled ice cubes to cool the water down. Then you get nice big ice cubes much quicker.

 

Sadly were now in CRISIS as the cheap big inverter died and the generator is out of the boat getting a rebuild at the moment, so we can't make ice anymore as we don't have 240V! 

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Ours is called a freezer! Works great. We use the glad plastic ice cube bags - awesome, self sealing, fill from tap, chuck in freezer. Pop out the cubes when you wwant. Still amazes me they don't leak water to start....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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