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[Cwray]

We are usually RV’ing with friends and the portable ice maker is very convenient. Even though have an ice maker in our residential fridge, it doesn’t put out enough ice, fast enough. The ice bin usually isn’t “nicely filled” until the morning we are leaving.

We are a family of 5, plus a dog. So our freezer is usually packed with food. So no room to store additional bags of ice.

Our favorite place for the ice maker? 3” to the left of our mini-fridge in the outdoor kitchen. That ice goes mostly into cups for drinks. So I couldn’t care less if it’s wet or not. If you don’t get to the tray after four or five dumps, it stops making cubes because the pile has broken an eye beam sensor. If you don’t get to it for a while (to either knock the pile down to get more or to get some out)—no big deal. Yeah, they melt....right back into the water tray to make more. Not sure where there’s a fuss about it.

Mine spits out 12 cubes every 8 minutes. Having it outdoors keeps the kids from going in/out of our RV wasting the a/c and letting bugs inside. (Why is hard to understand that one should keep a door closed when in a park???) It’s also hella-convenient to get ice when your sitting outside. I also don’t mind throwing that spare ice into a soft cooler if we head to the beach. 8 minutes later there will be more.