Automatic Ice Maker
An automatic ice maker is a handy innovation, especially for those who are living in hot climates where one needs to purchase ice thorough means of a delivery service where ice would be needed in bulk. This would naturally come at a price as ice in bulk can cause a heavy dent in to your pocket. Since the 1960’s the ice issue has been made quite easy thanks to the invention of the automatic ice maker, where all one has to do is add water for perfect shaped ice cubes to emerge to be used as you wish. However the process of creating ice is indeed a complicated one, unlike in the refrigerators you find at your home, where you have to add water on to the plastic trays and extracting ice cubes from the tray. However in the automatic ice maker the whole process is fully automated for your convenience.
The automatic ice maker uses an electric motor, which is an electric operated valve and heating system which is there to provide power to the machine to generate all the elements in to action. To operate the automatic ice maker one has to switch the machine on to an electrical circuit, which is powering your refrigerator. In order to generate an adequate water supply you will have to fix your machine in to the plumbing line in your home. The power line as well as the water source will both be circulated via a hole at the back of your automatic ice maker or at the back of the freezer of your refrigerator.
After everything is correctly assembled in your automatic ice maker, the machine will start its cycle to make the ice, the cycle is operated by an electrical circuit as well as a series of switches which work together to produce the ice. At the start of the cycle a gush of an electric current is sent to the solenoid water valve, in most such designs of automatic ice maker the water valve is situated behind the refrigerator, however it will be connect to the main circuit through means of electrical wires. The circuit will send the current down these wires, and the charge it produces will move a solenoid which in turn will open a valve. This valve will be open for a matter of seconds where water will be let in to the plastic ice moulds to make the ice.
Once the moulds have been filled the automatic ice maker machine will wait for the water to freeze, the cooling unit in the refrigerator will actually be doing the freezing aspect in the ice maker. The automatic ice maker has an integrated thermometer and once a particular temperature has been reached the thermostat closes a switch in the circuit. Once the switch has been activated a special heating coil beneath the ice maker will heat up from the bottom, thus loosening the ice from their moulds and in to the surface.
