Portable Ice Maker recommendations?

RoyB wrote:
I have thought that would be a good thing to have in our OFF-ROAD POPUP camper. It would have to run low wattage for running from an Inverter or generator for us. Maybe they have a 12VDC version to produce ice cubes...

Having one that made ice within the three hour generator run time window would be nice too but I'm sure that is wishful thinking...

Usually when we are camping off the power grid "NO" Ice is the big complaint I keep hearing.

Roy Ken

I haven't seen a 12 volt dc one that is cheap. Norcold has a private labeled freezer you could make ice cubes in made, by Engel I think but as I recall it costs about $1000. It works on 12 vdc or 120 vac. On dc it draws about 7 amps as I recall. We had one made by Engel that lasted over 20 years but it started making funny noises so we got a 3.2 cubic for residential freezer.
I see some 12 vdc freezers $600 or so.

The portable ice makers make a batch of ice every ten minutes or so
and you could get a fair amount of ice in 2 or 3 hours.
The manual that came with mine said not to run it on a modified sine wave inverter but my friend Bud who had one just like mine ran his on a MSW inverter for a lot of hours each year for 8 years before it finally died and it was the water pump that went not the compressor.