Product review (2 stars): Hate to give this one only two stars since it does function...but that is all I can manage for this one.
I am in full agreement with the fist reviewer here.  For the money, we found that this was an adequate ice maker.  We did try it in the kitchen but unfortunately the noise level is simply too high to be tolerated.  It was moved to on of our screened in back porches where it can hum its little head off as we do not set there all that much.

The ice does indeed do some melting from time to time and it is good to have an ice pick handy to break up the clumps.  The ice is quite clear and it does freeze well and efficiently.

This is not an ice maker I would have inside the house but for the garage, porch or out of the way place it does fine and the price here is pretty good.  But since it runs constantly do plan to have your electric bill go up a bit...we found this was so.

On the other hand, we are going to be purchasing a new one soon and simply plan to fork out a bit more money this time and get precisely what we want.