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Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

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.
1994 U225
build #4514

Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #1 –
Pat,

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

Brett Wolfe
Brett Wolfe
EX: 1993 U240
Moderator, ForeForum 2001-
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Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #2 –
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. :)
Don Hay
'92 Grandvilla, U-280
The Hayfever Express
Build #4055
'97 GEO Tracker
Life is like licking honey off a thorn.

Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #3 –
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. :)

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Titusville, FL - The Great Outdoors
'98 270 buying this month
Toad is a 2018 F150 XLT

Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #4 –
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)
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Gerry & Brenda
CHARLOTTE HARBOR, FL
1994 Grand Villa - # 4466
U300 Unihome - 6V92 Detroit
4 speed Allison - Jake Brake

Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #5 –
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.
1994 U225
build #4514

Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #6 –
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.

Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #7 –
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
1994 U225
build #4514
 

Re: Can the icemaker be used as a extra freezer?

Reply #8 –
When fish are biteing makes a great place to freeze filets.
Dub McBride 1996 270