Product review (1 stars): Not a good product unless you have no guests at your parties
We do a lot of hosting and we are always running out of ice, so it was with this in mind that I started shopping around for an ice maker.
I was not looking for a product that could produce enough ice for igloo making, I simply wanted something that could supplement our ice needs once the refrigerator ice started to run low at parties.
The product description said something like "produces 28 pounds a day" which sounded pretty reasonable, so I went ahead and bought it.
As soon as the package arrived, I decided to find out exactly what 28 pounds of ice looked like, so I took it out of the box, set it up per the instructions and blammo we were in business.
It took about 15 minutes for the first set of cubes to pop out. They were cute little cubes, but not enough to chill a normal size beverage. "Ok" I thought "this is a good start, but lets see how this cranks them out once it hits full speed". I figured I would come back in thirty minutes and see how things were progressing.
To my surprise, another 30 minutes of waiting only produced another small set of cute little cubes- just about enough to chill my normal size beverage.
I started to grow concerned and was wondering how the company was measuring its "28 pounds in a day" claim. Earth days? Maybe they did their testing on Jupiter where days last about 11 times longer (I had to Google that BTW).
In any case, I started to jump into troubleshooting mode, trying all different size cubes, switching out the water, and even reading the manual!
After about three hours, it had produced roughly enough ice for me, my wife, and probably one other person to enjoy a cold beverage.
The manual says that a lack of ice production requires a service technician to look at. It was at that point that I boxed it back up and shipped it back to Amazon Amazon was great as usual).
My conclusion was either a) this unit was defective or b)the product can only be used if you have no friends to invite to your parties.