I bought this for my husband as a gift. We go fishing and boating a lot, so we are constantly using ice. As we did not have a free water line to hook it up, we bought an adapter (maybe $5 at Lowe’s) and hooked it up to our water hose. We live in Florida and have it on our back lanai. It works well and produces a good amount of ice. We keep the ice set on the thickest setting and it will fill up the bin overnight. The bin keeps the ice from melting pretty well. It’s not meant to keep it frozen. I would compare the bins ability to keep ice cold to a styrofoam cooler. I would not recommend for a busy restaurant, as you do have to give the machine time to make ice, but for filling a cooler or two, it’s great. You just have to make sure to bag up the ice to put in a freezer. We have had this a month now and I am really glad we bought it.
