Ice Maker For Sale

BD-198-7 with the door open: seven plate shelves, one 198 litre cavity, and a hermetic DC compressor underneath.

The three BD-198 cabinets below are built on the same 550 × 635 mm footprint. They differ in how many plates are stacked inside, which changes loading capacity and harvest rhythm but not the space you reserve on the floor, not the door swing, and not the carton family that goes on the container.

Loading capability differs by plate count; the exterior envelope, the container count and the power options do not. If you are replacing a unit in an existing corner, the BD-198-7 needs the same space as the ten plate version.

Inside the cabinet there is no ice bin and no auger. There are seven horizontal freezing shelves, each one a roll bonded aluminium plate carrying refrigerant through its own channels. Product sits on the plate, the plate pulls heat out of it from below, and the block releases when the surface releases it. That is the whole machine.

Once you look at it that way, seven is not seven tenths of a ten plate machine. It is seven independently loaded shelves, which is exactly what a shop that freezes on a daily loop wants: you can load three today, four tomorrow, and never have to wait for a full stack to justify switching the compressor on.

The trade is simultaneity. Ten plates let you put more product in at the same moment; seven plates keep the loading pattern smaller and the turnaround shorter to manage. Neither is better in the abstract. They suit different routes.

The cavity of the BD-198-7: seven plate shelves on slide rails, each one removable for cleaning and each one a freezing surface in its own right.

One shelf up close: the plate surface is what the block freezes against, and the rail pair is what lets you pull the whole shelf out.

A block ice cabinet spends its life at −18 deg C and below, and the largest heat leak on any such cabinet is the seam where the door meets the frame. That is why the inner face of this door is a moulded panel with a regular field of raised bosses rather than a flat sheet: the pattern stiffens the panel, holds a layer of still air across the face, and keeps the gasket line loaded evenly when the door is pulled shut.

Practical consequence: do not defeat the door to save time. Propping it open during a long loading round, or leaving a block wedged in the gasket, is what turns a freezer into a wet cabinet. Close it, let it pull down, and accept the wait.

Door at ninety degrees: the bosses on the inner panel are load bearing for the panel and an air gap for the cavity.

The boss field up close. It reads as decoration until you notice the gasket groove running the full perimeter outside it.

The cabinet is 550 mm wide, 635 mm deep and 1410 mm tall. Add the handle and the door swing and the working depth in front of it becomes the real constraint on site, not the cabinet itself. Measure the swing, measure the corridor you will carry blocks down, then measure the cabinet.

Because the carton is only 1455 mm tall and stands upright, these load standing, not on their side, and 123 of them fill a 40 foot high cube exactly as the packing list says. It is worth checking your own door widths against the 570 mm carton before the container arrives.

The top header: latch, first rail pair and the ceiling of the cavity. It is the one place where a sloppy load shows up as a gap.

This is an air cooled cabinet with the condenser at the back. The single most common installation mistake is pushing it flat against a wall in a corner that already has no air movement, then blaming the machine when it struggles in a hot week.

The walls are foamed in place, and the refrigerant is either R134a or R600a depending on the build. Both are stated on the label on the back panel, and both matter to whoever services the unit: a technician who assumes the wrong one will recharge it wrong. Photograph the label when the unit lands and keep the photo with the paperwork.

A delivered unit in a customer's room, loaded and running. Nothing exotic is needed around it: level floor, air at the back, clear swing.

The BD-198-7 is specified for 12 V DC, 24 V DC and 220 V AC. On a grid connection it behaves like any chest freezer: plug it in, set it, forget it. On a battery it becomes a load that has to be planned, because a freezer is not a lamp - it runs for hours, cycles on and off, and does not care that the sun went down.

Between the two DC options, choose 24 V when the cable run is long. Doubling the voltage halves the current for the same work, and on a DC freezer the cable loss is the difference between a compressor that starts cleanly at dawn and one that trips the protection. Size the array to the daily duty cycle rather than to the nameplate, and keep the run from battery to cabinet as short as the layout allows.

If the site is off grid, the sequence that works is boring and reliable: charge controller, battery, cabinet. Nothing else in between. Counters, inverters and changeover switches added later are where most of the avoidable service calls come from.

The handle is a pull, not a lever. Load the door with a palm on the frame, not on the handle alone, and the hinges stay true for years.

A block ice cabinet is not a convenience appliance. It is a small production unit, and it belongs wherever ice is consumed faster than it can be bought in bags, or where bagged ice arrives too expensive, too soft or too late.

The pattern across all five is the same: demand is steady but not enormous, and the buyer would rather produce than purchase. That is precisely the case for seven plates. A stall that needs a dozen blocks a day does not want an eleven plate cabinet running half empty, and it does not want to wait for a ten plate stack to fill before it can harvest anything.

Close to the point of sale, out of the sun, air at the back. The three requirements that decide whether the cabinet lasts a decade.

Every operator develops their own rhythm, but the loop itself does not change much. Written down, it looks like this:

What the plate is for. Clear, dense block ice - the kind that melts slowly under a fish display instead of vanishing by ten in the morning.

Two figures are deliberately left to the order confirmation: the rated power draw and the harvest weight per cycle. They depend on the compressor and plate set actually fitted to your build, and quoting a single number for the whole family would be a guess dressed up as a specification.

Optional 220 V adapters, spare shelf sets, ice boxes and additional plates are quoted per order. Tell us the voltage and the refrigerant at the time of booking, not after the container is loaded, and the build goes out right the first time.

Hangzhou Juka Solar Technology was founded in 2015 around one problem: putting solar energy, new energy and smart control to work inside a refrigeration circuit. The range has since grown from a single DC chest freezer to solar refrigerators, solar ice makers, mobile ice-cream carts, delivery tricycles and beverage retail carts - all of them exported, most of them to Belt and Road markets. The work does not stop at the container. Partners in Ghana, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kazakhstan and India are supported in setting up their own local production for retail and delivery refrigeration, which is how a cold chain becomes permanent rather than a series of one-off shipments. For a solar system this matters more than for a mains-only freezer. Panel sizing, controller rating and battery capacity all depend on cabinet volume and site conditions, so the cabinet and the electronics are engineered together instead of being bought separately by the importer.

What is decided before the cabinet is built

Certification and test documentation

CE marking covers the electrical arrangement, and utility model patents cover the cabinet and the direct-drive control layout. Documents travel with the order so they can be presented at customs and to institutional or tender buyers.

CE - low voltage and EMC

CE - supplementary schedule

Utility model patent - cabinet structure

On the floor

Six control points behind every cabinet

Machines on the line

OEM, ODM and local assembly

Cabinet-only supply, private label, SKD and CKD shipments are all available, together with technical guidance for partners who would rather assemble locally than import finished units. Helping partners build their own refrigeration business is the part of the work that outlasts a single purchase order.

What can be changed on a standard order:

✓  Customer logo and cabinet colour

✓  Voltage options and plug type

✓  Packaging design

✓  Product configuration, baskets and fittings

✓  Panel, controller and battery included, or cabinet supplied on its own