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Title: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: PatC on August 02, 2010, 05:41:07 pm
DW wants to know if the Ice Maker can be used as a extra freezer instead of a Ice Maker.  I don't have the foggest idea.
Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: wolfe10 on August 02, 2010, 05:55:56 pm
Pat,

Are you talking about a stand alone ice maker like U-Line or an ice maker inside your absorption refrigerator?

Brett Wolfe
Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: Don Hay on August 02, 2010, 06:48:58 pm
Pat,

If it's a U-line (stand alone) freezer, just turn off the water line (under the sink) and it should work.  We have put extra meat (Alaskan salmon) in there when Dometic freezer was jammed full of same. :)
Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: Dave Head on August 02, 2010, 07:59:07 pm
Just flip up the bail so it won't make ice.

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Don Hay wrote:

Pat,

If it's a U-line (stand alone) freezer, just turn off the water line

(under the sink) and it should work. We have put extra meat (Alaskan salmon) in there when Dometic freezer was jammed full of same. :)

Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: Gerry Vicha on August 02, 2010, 08:45:01 pm
We used our stand alone "U-Line" freezer for storage of Ice cream, and other frozen foods for many years in our previous coach.  8)
Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: PatC on August 03, 2010, 01:25:03 am
You guys got it - the U-Line stand alone unit.  Will tell the wife.  It will make her happy.  Don't know what she is planning for it, but she says we don't need a ice maker.  So be it, she has spoken.
Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: Brad Sears on August 03, 2010, 08:08:10 am
We have used our U Line for an extra freezer for several years now. I was going to take it out to make extra storage but then decided on the freezer route. The only down side is running the inverter when traveling and the extra load on the engines alternator. So I added an other 2000 watt inverter for just the ice maker. We also have solar and a big 1600 amp hour battery storage bank using golf cart Trojan T106 batteries. Works for us.
Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: PatC on August 03, 2010, 11:23:50 pm
Thanks Brad,
And it is a great pleasure having you advise me!!!  Looked at the pic and it sounds just like you!!!!  Had no idea you had a Foretravel.
Pat
Title: Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?
Post by: Dub on September 01, 2010, 03:24:31 pm
When fish are biteing makes a great place to freeze filets.