Can You Have Ice At An Off-Grid Cabin?

all right I want to review this uh ice maker and uh one of the things that Drew me to it was how low the amperage usage is and the wattage so I've already used this inside on a 110 outlet and it worked great but what I'm going to be using it for what I want to use it for is uh my off-grid cabin so I want to see if I can run this off of a 1000 wat inverter off of a battery system so that's what I'm going to set up now and that's what we're going to try all right so I've got it set up I've got my battery set up I'll be able to monitor the Watts plus I have an app that I can uh watch online so this is the uh case that all of the ice is uh shipped to comes out right here and it drops into this little ice bucket and uh what you do is you just pour some water into the reservoir and there is a little place right here that you can pour it or you can pour it right through the uh the grate on the bottom I'm just going to I want to see how much ice I can get out of one 16 o it's actually 16.9 Oz water bottle [Applause] make sure that I'm not above the Max and no I'm only about halfway so I'm going to close that and you push this once and that starts the cycle so it looks like it's running great just off of a 1000 watt inverter and it is a pure sine wave inverter and that's uh what I have at my offgrid cabin as well so it takes uh about 5 minutes before the ice starts coming out so we'll put it on pause we'll come back once the ice starts FL all right so if we look at my app you can see that it's drawing just under 4 amps and that's about 51 1/2 Watts all right we started at 8:45 so it's been about a minute and uh we'll keep track of that and I'll let you know how long it took before the ice started to flow out all right we're a couple of minutes in and my current has increased to 9.7 amps and 126 Watts so that's gone up quite a bit but it's still well within the range of uh my battery pack okay the water that I pulled out that bottle water was here in the garage it's been really hot we've been getting triple digits and uh in the garage it's probably at least 90 so that was really warm water that I put in here so keep that in mind all right it's 8:51 so took about 6 minutes and the ice is starting to come out you can see it's starting to fall into the uh the bucket so I'm going to let that run and we'll see just how long it takes to uh finish 16 oz worth of ice [Applause] when all of the water in the reservoir is converted to ice this will turn red and your ad water light will come on so that's how you know that you've gone through a full cycle okay we're well into the uh process here and we we've gone up again we're up to 11 amps and 144 Watts still low though okay it's been a little over an hour and uh most of the water has been converted to ice but uh it's still going there's still a tiny bit of water left in the bottom it's going to cut off any time now it has been running for an hour and 7 minutes so we can say it took an hour and 7 minutes to convert 16 oz of water to uh ice and it consumed 12 amp hours of battery I went from uh 97% down to 85% and since this is a 100 amp battery pack that is easily converted into 12 amp hours so that's 12% of my battery to convert one 16 o uh bottle of water into ice so that's pretty significant if you're only using using a a 100 amp hour battery my battery pack at my cabin is uh 280 amp hours so that would be about a little over 4 amp hours or a little over 4% would be the same amount of amp hours but a little over 4% of my battery capacity and uh if I did that once a day for 5 days which is the most that I've ever stayed there in one time uh that you know that's 20% of my battery and that's if I don't replenish it during the day with the solar panels which I do so uh that would be fine uh for me to use at my cabin it would probably not be fine with only a 100 amp hour battery pack though you'd want something at least twice that size so another thing that I wanted to mention is that the exhaust that comes out the side is it's not hot but it is warm um so if that's going to be an issue then uh just one more thing to consider none of these things bother me as far as whether or not I'm going to use this I'm going to take this to the cabin and I'm going to use it I think it's going to be a great addition and if you're plugging this into a wall outlet no issues whatsoever it works fantastic so it took a little over an hour to get the amount of ice that I want to use um in my uh 40 oz mug here and I've already done this and that ice lasted me all day and I even had ice left over in my mug the next day and that was uh pouring room temperature water um over the ice filling it up so yeah I think it I think it did great I give this a thumbs up and uh I'm definitely going to be using it and so you can see uh how much ice that produces ice takes up a lot more space so that probably filled up uh at least 75% if not 80% of my uh my mug