Portable icemaker

I have been wanting to get one of those that is always on sale at WALMART ($60-$70)...


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Never had one before for camping so I am curious how they work out. We always have water with us so that is not a problem...

Even if I got a small bucket of ice would do us just great. I see it doesn't take very long to make ice so should not be a big battery drain using a power inverter...

We load down our COLEMAN 5-day extreme ICE CHEST for the trips which is alot of ice and sit a small see through container with lid ofr our food items we don't want to get water logged... Have lots of room for things keeping them cold...

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We live out of the back of the truck with the ice. Stays in the truck bed under the hard bed cover... We most often last about three days before making a run back into town for soft drinks and food etc and more ice...

The small fridge is only good for soft drinks and lunch meat - snacks etc hehe...

Roy Ken

We keep ours inside on top of the stove cover. Where we camp, if left outside, it melts as soon as it's made. Once it gets going it has no problem keeping our ice chest topped off.

Mine stays home. Found them to be too much trouble. Just bring a bag of ice from home replenish from nearby store when needed.

If I keep it inside it goes on the stove cover,but it does put out a lot of heat so most of the time it goes outside on a small table under the awning.

As always seems to happen I will take this thread a bit sideways. When it is inside, the hopper gets full the Ice Maker will stop making Ice.

But when it is outside in the shade of the awning it just keeps on making ice even up past the light that is suppose to stop it.

Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?

Mine just sits on the floor, under the overhang from "upgrading' my mattress from rv to standard queen. kitchen + living room + bedroom are all the same in my tiny trailer.

I would go with a small folding or "X-Leg" table most any place handy.

It sits atop a "Coleman Cooler" type ice chest in my RV that is not currently used for anything else.

Ours either sits outside in the outdoor kitchen or on a table. For us it's too noisy to be inside and as you said they generate heat and trying to cool an RV is hard enough without adding heat.

donn0128 wrote:
We sat ours outside on top of the refer. But a table also works great.

We just set ours on a small folding table outside.

We sat ours outside on top of the refer. But a table also works great.