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(More customer reviews)Great product. I've been using it for about 30 days.
Lot of ice and might do very will in a Physical Therapy setting.
The machine makes about 30 ice cubes every 15 minutes and will continue production until the bin has about 25 pounds of ice (two large bags), then it stops production. Cubes are clear ice (hard) about 1" in diameter and 1" long, bullet shaped and hollow. It is noisey dumping cubes into the plastic storage bin. The storage bin is not refrigerated, so over time the cubes will melt and be replaced by new cubes. This keeps the cubes from sticking together. Ice production resumes as the ice level melts down or you remove ice. Over a 24 hour period I was able to fill three medium sized ice chests buy emptying the bin about every eight hours.
The only problem I've had was when installing the water line saddle I did not 100% open the water valve. This was starving the machine for water and the result was first it made a couple of dumps of milky colored ice and eventually a large block of ice formed on the cooling coils. Once I got it thawed out and deteremed the machine was starved for water I opend the valve 100% and it has worked like a dream every since. With some testing I determined the saddle valve (purchased at Lowes) didn't fully open until the last two full turns.
How do you know if it's starved for water? The water tray must be full up to the draini line. Therefore, the water tray needs to maintain between 1.5" and 2" of water in it during the ice manufacturing cycle. During this cycle the machine sprays water on the overhead cooling coils. If it can't maintain between 1.5" and 2" of water, during the spray cycle the spray water stream doesn't quite reach the coils properly. Eventually it will run low on water and start pumping an air/water mixture. The result will either be milky colored ice or eventually a block of ice. If you see air bubbles being sucked into the water pump tube then you don't have enough water in the water tray. The reason is most likey the machine is not getting enough water during the fill cycle.It will makes about 25 pounds of clear ice every 8 hours. I installed it in the basement, so the ambient air is about 70 degrees all the time. If the room air temperature is higher then the ice production would be a little less.
BTW, I am running "soft" water in the machine (water softener" and it still makes clear, hard ice. I did see a post that soft water would result in white ice. The only time I got white or milky colored ice is when it was sucking air because the water level was too low.
I have tendonitis and use it to make an ice bath twice a day to remove inflamation in both arms. I do this by filling a 2.5 fool long PVC pipe (6" diameter) with ice and water. This machine might well meet the needs of a physical therapy group that might do something similar to what I use it for.
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