Product review (5 stars): Worked as advertised - nice machine!
Filled the machine with water as soon as it arrived.  Plugged it in and had a handful of ice in 8 minutes.  Used the machine on a week long camping trip.  It sat on a table outside our RV and made tons of ice all week long.  We never had to buy a bag of ice.  You do have to remember to empty it and keep it filled up with water.  I wish I could figure out a technique to get crystal clear ice out of the machine.  I tried distilled water (not recommended in the instructions), and the machine kept saying water needed to be added.  After adding a pinch of salt to the water as suggested in the instructions, the machine operated, but the ice was still not clear.  Tried boiling the water first and letting it cool, but that didn't produce consistently clear ice either.  Oh well, the ice cubes are cute anyway.