Lowest price -- cheapest design
Unit produces ice quickly -- the advertised 26lbs/day is probably easy to duplicate.
The water tray has a cube scoop used to eject cubes to the basket. The design is poor allowing ice cubes to escape scooping and foul the next run. I've looked at several different units and I can see the tray/ice eject mechanism is smaller than it should be -- cheap.
The cube basket is a plastic box with slots. The slots are wide enough to allow smaller cubes to fall through. Look for the metal ones with small openings.
Other units have a temperature sensor in the water path that measures water flow, temperature, and basket full, I think. This unit produces inconsistent cube sizes depending on water temp apparently because is makes no adjustment for temp.
This unit is one of the cheapest you will find and it gets the jobs done -- just not as weill as it could.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned