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Here’s the ice buildup from the mashed potato load. I can absolutely see why people buy the aftermarket ice blockers. Design flaw from the factory in my opinion. Ice does touch some of the trays with loads that have a decent amount of water. We may be ordering the ice blockers to help with that issue.
Now that colder weather is here we’re finding it “harder” to defrost without using the defrost setting. We are currently using the defrost setting and after an hour or two pulling the tray shelf unit out and the ice chunks mostly are loose and we can pull them out. However, we have to leave the initial start up freeze going for at least an hour vs 15 min it says to do it because the defrost mode is heat and it gets to 150* in the drum. Takes at least an hour currently to get the chamber back down to a reasonable temperature to put the pre frozen trays in.
WARNING to all who are thinking about having a freeze drier in their house. It has been confirmed by many other freeze drier people they make a watery mess. No matter what you do they make a mess. They drip from their seal from condensation. They drip inside the cover and drip down under the unit. They sometimes leak out the seal during defrost. I’m glad ours is not in the house while we’re figuring it all out.
Now that colder weather is here we’re finding it “harder” to defrost without using the defrost setting. We are currently using the defrost setting and after an hour or two pulling the tray shelf unit out and the ice chunks mostly are loose and we can pull them out. However, we have to leave the initial start up freeze going for at least an hour vs 15 min it says to do it because the defrost mode is heat and it gets to 150* in the drum. Takes at least an hour currently to get the chamber back down to a reasonable temperature to put the pre frozen trays in.
WARNING to all who are thinking about having a freeze drier in their house. It has been confirmed by many other freeze drier people they make a watery mess. No matter what you do they make a mess. They drip from their seal from condensation. They drip inside the cover and drip down under the unit. They sometimes leak out the seal during defrost. I’m glad ours is not in the house while we’re figuring it all out.