Product review (1 stars): Should be Labeled as Disposable!
This ice maker should have a year appended to it's name, because you'll need to replace it every year like most software these days. It is available with several different company names stenciled on the front. I would have thought since it was popular enough to be resold by several companies, it would have been a good model. I was wrong. Within the first 3 months the pump broke. I ended up replacing that from the multitude of parts that can be found from broken ones on eBay. After another 3 months or so the low water sensor stopped working. The ice maker would run all day recycling the melting ice into M&M sized chips. Now, after only a year of household use by a single person, the infrared sensor that tells it when it's full has has stopped working. If I forget to turn it off, it will keep trying to push the ice up to the lid. This results in cracking sounds as ice cubes get stuck under the trough and paddle and are swept backward instead of forward and into the already full hopper when it resets for another batch.
The older version had a mechanical shutoff switch and since ice makers in refrigerators still use a mechanical bail, the manufacturer should have kept that method instead of the "upgrade" to infrared.