Product review (4 stars): Worried it will break - but so far so good ...
I needed this ice maker for use in a horse trailer where we travel and bagged ice is hard to come by.  Reviews seemed to be great or terrible.  Seemed to work out of the box or not.  Or died in a month or not.  So I went ahead and bought one.  So far so good.  Here is how I am using my and what I do to make sure it works.  First I took the suggestion to let the unit sit upright after shipping for 24 hours before using.  Then used the machine at home to test out and it worked great.  Now to my intended usage.  Placed the unit in my horse trailer living quarters and hauled off down the road for 5 hours with I am sure some bouncing.  Destination - trailer was warm, water was warm and the thing made tiny ice and not much of it.  Let it run and it finally picked up speed and did fantastic again.  Next trip 4 hours.  My trailer refrigerator has a tiny freezer.  Put two trays of ice in that before I left.  Upon arriving I dumped the two bags into the ice maker, added water and with the chilled water the ice maker churned out cubes on the first cycle.  The ice maker keeps a family of three adults in ice easily.  I put extra ice in a tub and put in my small freezer and run the machine during the day.  Several times it filled with ice that I didn't use and would do the melt and re-make cycle thing.  As others have stated this is not a FREEZER.  It makes ice.  If you don't use it the ice melts and drips back into tank to be recycled into cubes again.  So two trips out and I am pleased.  Cross my fingers it continues to work - because it if does it is a great appliance.