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Counter top ice maker for the RV?

Yota Up

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Anyone use an ice maker this like?
I'm looking at buying this one and have no idea what I'm in for.

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Do they suck? Is spending $65 on one gonna get me 99% of what a $150 one can do, or do you need to pay more to avoid a piece of junk?
 
That looks a lot like the one my GF brought home the other day. She bought it from someone at work for like $20, so I doubt it wasd the premium model you are looking at. The thing works way better than I expected it would work. Not sure about what they cost retail, but for sure they work well.
 
I don't know if there's a big difference, buy one w/ good reviews and go for it. I have this one, it was $129. It's in my RV and works great.

 
We have this one. It works better than the last one we had. The old one lasted a few years with pretty heavy use.

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My parents have one in their trailer and it works great. It’s noisy but if you have an outdoor kitchen that would be a good place for it.
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
You are aware that the reviews are as trustworthy as CNN political news stories right?
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Clearly I don't take them all as gospel... but a machine w/ good reviews and reviews that sound like they're done by someone who's actually touched the machine and speak English are better than one w/ all shit reviews.
 
question for someone who has one of these. Any chance I could punch a hole in the bottom one one of these to set ontop a mini deep freeze to dump the ice into? I use about 30-40lbs a weekend for the coolers and this guy would do the trick set ontop a mini deep freeze.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
question for someone who has one of these. Any chance I could punch a hole in the bottom one one of these to set ontop a mini deep freeze to dump the ice into? I use about 30-40lbs a weekend for the coolers and this guy would do the trick set ontop a mini deep freeze.
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Probably, but you're also going to have to constantly top off the water to make that much ice in a single run. I'd at least get something that can hook up to a water supply.


Vevor has a 110 lb/day one for $220
www.vevor.com

VEVOR 110V Commercial Ice Maker 80LBS/24H with 24lbs Storage Capacity Stainless Steel Commercial Ice Machine 40 Ice Cubes Per Plate Industrial Ice Maker Machine Auto Clean for Bar Home Supermarkets | VEVOR US

VEVOR Commercial Ice Maker produces 110 lbs of crystal-clear ice in 24 hours, has a sturdy stainless steel build, and features automatic cleaning and ice thickness adjustment.
www.vevor.com www.vevor.com
 
We had a cheaper one that make "ice". It wasn't worth unloading it and listening to it run all day to make maybe 5lbs of fast melting ice.

A larger one would be nice, but they get heavy.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
question for someone who has one of these. Any chance I could punch a hole in the bottom one one of these to set ontop a mini deep freeze to dump the ice into? I use about 30-40lbs a weekend for the coolers and this guy would do the trick set ontop a mini deep freeze.
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There is a better way, put the icemaker in the deep freeze.

These cubes are just barely frozen and putting them in the freezer directly will likely give you a brick of ice...

There is a awesome how to video on this .

 
I have a ice maker similar to OP, used it in Colorado all week running off 400w solar.
But now I have a 12v cooler so we don't need ice.
 
CarterKraft said:
There is a better way, put the icemaker in the deep freeze.

These cubes are just barely frozen and putting them in the freezer directly will likely give you a brick of ice...

There is a awesome how to video on this .

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Damn. I had the thought to do that with my giant chest freezer and just a smaller bin. I have a commercial style fridge w/ no freezer or ice maker in the kitchen.


One thing I would recommend for someone doing this would be to use an older ice maker that makes the classic "half moon" cubes. I bought a new simple freezer on top fridge my rental and it makes the round dome style cubes.....sloooowly. Takes like 3-4 days to fill the bin where the old one would do it in a day.
 
bgaidan said:
Probably, but you're also going to have to constantly top off the water to make that much ice in a single run. I'd at least get something that can hook up to a water supply.


Vevor has a 110 lb/day one for $220
www.vevor.com

VEVOR 110V Commercial Ice Maker 80LBS/24H with 24lbs Storage Capacity Stainless Steel Commercial Ice Machine 40 Ice Cubes Per Plate Industrial Ice Maker Machine Auto Clean for Bar Home Supermarkets | VEVOR US

VEVOR Commercial Ice Maker produces 110 lbs of crystal-clear ice in 24 hours, has a sturdy stainless steel build, and features automatic cleaning and ice thickness adjustment.
www.vevor.com www.vevor.com
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That one looks like it has the compressor under it.
CarterKraft said:
There is a better way, put the icemaker in the deep freeze.

These cubes are just barely frozen and putting them in the freezer directly will likely give you a brick of ice...

There is a awesome how to video on this .

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yeah this was the original plan but, haven’t had time to get it working. A cut a hole in both the machine and lid of freezer would be a halfassers way to do it. :lmao:
 
CarterKraft said:
I have a ice maker similar to OP, used it in Colorado all week running off 400w solar.
But now I have a 12v cooler so we don't need ice.
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I bet you’re a popular bartender, no ice for your vodka tonics? Eckk :flipoff2:

OP, we have one like you showed and the wife bags it as fast as it makes it for a couple hours and we have enough for whatever.

I have a ARB but I still need ice with my Grey Goose.
 
bad zuki said:
We had a cheaper one that make "ice". It wasn't worth unloading it and listening to it run all day to make maybe 5lbs of fast melting ice.
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CarterKraft said:
These cubes are just barely frozen and putting them in the freezer directly will likely give you a brick of ice...
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This is my concern. These are the little bullet cubes and being small they likely melt fast, especially when cooling warm beers tossed into a cooler.
I'm hoping I can offset the lack of quality ice by dumping volume at it over and over.
 
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I went down this road, I was going to mount the icemaker on top of a old icechest and pump the drip water back into the top with a fountain pump but after some videos and thinking about how much ice I actually need it wasn't worth the effort.

12v compressor ice chest is the GOAT.
No wet drinks, no baby sitting, pre-cooling etc.
 
IGT said:
I bet you’re a popular bartender, no ice for your vodka tonics? Eckk :flipoff2:

OP, we have one like you showed and the wife bags it as fast as it makes it for a couple hours and we have enough for whatever.

I have a ARB but I still need ice with my Grey Goose.
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We just make a tray of cubes in the RV freezer for the "cube" needs.
I freeze 6 water bottles in the freezer for the SXS ice chest.

Fuck ice, it's a complete fucking scam!:flipoff:
 
Yota Up said:
This is my concern. These are the little bullet cubes and being small they likely melt fast, especially when cooling warm beers tossed into a cooler.
I'm hoping I can offset the lack of quality ice by dumping volume at it over and over.

The entire goal here is pretty much to make my beer cold enough to drink by sunset, so I don't think I need to be too picky since I'm not adding it to Pepsi and worried about getting watered down.
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Pre 12v cooler my wife would start the week before a trip making bags, could make a few 10 lb bags per day.
But I Could see that was still too much effort IMO to make ICE.
Even when she made ICE, we'd still need a few bags on a 5+ day summer trip.
 
Our first ice maker made the bullet shaped ice cubes, we hated them.

We put the first ice maker in the camp raffle and bought one of these before our next outing, and because three family members had them:grinpimp:

Ours is the same unit under a different brand name, and we didn’t pay that much.


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CarterKraft said:
I went down this road, I was going to mount the icemaker on top of a old icechest and pump the drip water back into the top with a fountain pump but after some videos and thinking about how much ice I actually need it wasn't worth the effort.

12v compressor ice chest is the GOAT.
No wet drinks, no baby sitting, pre-cooling etc.
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In all reality this is all I would do need. Our cabin is too small to have a second fridge for all the beverages. We just have a huge cooler sitting outside that everyone tosses what the brung in. Works great other than it needs ice every weekend. A 120v refrigerated outdoor cooler would be perfect.
 
Our camp friends have similar machines and while they worked, the ice was never really fully frozen. So if it got behind the ice didn't work well, and you'd have to transfer to an actual freezer to finish freezing it. i don't think it would work too great for refilling a cooler, but it worked pretty well for ice for drinks.
 
Ummduh said:
Our camp friends have similar machines and while they worked, the ice was never really fully frozen. So if it got behind the ice didn't work well, and you'd have to transfer to an actual freezer to finish freezing it. i don't think it would work too great for refilling a cooler, but it worked pretty well for ice for drinks.
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I’ll make ice and then transfer it into the trailer freezer. We use a lot of ice in our rum&cokes :grinpimp:
 
Yota Up said:
This is my concern. These are the little bullet cubes and being small they likely melt fast, especially when cooling warm beers tossed into a cooler.
I'm hoping I can offset the lack of quality ice by dumping volume at it over and over.

The entire goal here is pretty much to make my beer cold enough to drink by sunset, so I don't think I need to be too picky since I'm not adding it to Pepsi and worried about getting watered down.
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Get a 12v cooler from Rough C. Worth every penny.
 
girlfriend has a couple of those countertop ice makers, one at the house, one at the beach house. She paid about $100 each for those things. I cant get them to fill the tray in under 4 hours. They are barely faster than freezing cubes in an ice tray. The tray cubes last a lot longer as well. i left one of those running continually to try and keep my cooler topped off, shit melted about the same rate it made ice. I had an old side by side refrigerator in my old shop and pulled the shelves out of the freezer and let the ice dump into a trash can. Worked pretty good till i moved out of the shop, I'm in the process of converting a 5 cu ft chest freezer into an ice maker using amazon ice maker kits. So far so good, I ruined a cheap 3 cu ft freezer running a screw in too low on the first try. I learned that lesson. I've got a second try up and running and fine tuning it. Its kinda slow so far, i think I figured part of it out realizing I have the ice maker mounted too high in the freezer. That last 4 inches of height doesn't have any coils in the sides, its not getting cold enough( 10 degrees for the ice maker to kick out the cubes), quick enough to make ice fast enough. I'm going to lower the ice maker down 4 inches and see how it does. i figured it out by using ice trays and comparing how fast they froze, below that line, they froze twice as fast as above it. If it works out, I'm adding a second ice maker to double production. I have two 3 gallon trash cans that the ice falls into. So far so good.
 
Those are ok for making ice for drinks. You are not going to be filling a cooler with warm beer and ice made with a table top ice maker, the juice is not worth the squeeze.
 
Mine got sooo nasty. It would freeze ice and drop it in a tray, then as the ice melted it would drip down, and pump back up to get frozen into ice. Wasn’t a freezer, but had enough to freeze water.

It was hard to clean and needed a deep cleaning almost every other day. It was a gross slime and slug water making thing.
 
Son has an Amazon countertop icemaker. Good for a college kid in a dorm, not for making lots of ice in volume. Or does work great though. For two people in an RV should work fine.
 
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