Scotsman Modular Ice Maker- Head Units ONLY Air Cooled

Head Units - The most common and widely used.

The head unit is a standard ice maker and condensing unit. Condesnsers can be air-cooled, water-cooled or, remote-cooled. It can produce a range of 300 to 2400 lbs of ice per 24 hrs. Available in a variety of sizes and ice types, it allows you to design an machine to fit your ice production and storage requirements.

All heads reqiure the purchase of a separate Ice Storage Bin or Ice Dispenser.

Ice Storage Bins
Storage Bin capacity ranges of 200 to 2000 lbs. It is important to choose a bin that will hold enough ice on your peak business days, but won't overflow during downtime.

Ice Dispensers
Ice dispensers are used in self-serve situations. They eliminate the labor needed to fill bins manually while guaranteeing that customers have ice available to them during service periods. Ice dispensers can store from 150 lbs. to 250 lbs. of ice.
Hotel dispensers, are larger ice-production systems specially designed to dispense ice directly into buckets. Hotel dispensers can store up to 180 lbs of ice.

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Cube Ice Makers Heads

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Nugget Ice Maker Heads

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Air-Cooled vs Water -Cooled Ice Makers

The choice of an air-cooled or water-cooled machine is an important one. The first thing to consider is the environment where your ice machine will be located. Temperature and air circulation, effects your ice machine's performance and efficiency.

Air-Cooled
An air-cooled ice maker is more affordable, and can be installed anywhere you have access to water and electricity. The down side is they use more energy, can exhaust significant amounts of heat, and are too noisy to be located close to customer service areas.

Air-cooled ice makers should not be used in a small room without air circulation. It needs to have 6” of clearance on all air intake and discharge areas. As a rule of thumb, a 10°F air temperature increase may reduce daily ice production by 10% when using an air-cooled machine. It is not recommend for small kitchens where the ice machine must be located near the cooking equipment and air temperatures are typically over 80F. The increased room temperature will melt ice in the bin quicker, requiring more ice-making capacity to replenish and fill the bin.

The Bottom Line

Air-cooled ice makers use the most energy—5.4 to 22.5 kWh per 100 pounds of ice—but cost
less than water-cooled models and use less water.

The most common form of ice in the commerical industry. Eighty percent of restaurants choose ice machines that make cubed ice.

Cube ice is clear and comes in various shapes —rectangular, full cube, half cube, gourment, contour, or other regular shapes. The largest dimension is about 1.25 inches (3.18 centimeters). Pieces of cube ice range in weight from 1/6 to 1/2 ounce (4.8 to 14.0 grams) and contain minimal amounts of liquid water. Learn More about Cube Ice

Flaked ice is the most economical to produce and ideal for rapid cooling. Fills in around foods, unlike cubes that create warm air pockets that melt your ice. Generally used in cold pans or displays where ice need to be molded to the foods. Occasionally is it used in specialty drinks and soft drinks. Learn more about Flake Ice

Ice nuggets are an increasingly popular option. Consumer prefered, this new and exciting ice is very cost effective. It uses less water and electricity than cubed ice, and it melts slower than flaked ice. Popular for use in dinks with fast food restaurants, such as Sonic.
Learn more about Nugget Ice

Scotsman. The Smart Choice in Ice™ Machines.

As the world’s largest manufacturer of ice systems, with more than 300 models of ice machines, storage bins, and ice and water dispensers, Scotsman is dedicated to developing today’s most promising smart technologies.

Smarter Efficiency
Scotsman equipment leads the industry in efficiency, with choices such as Prodigy™ and Nugget Ice® ice machines that decrease both utility costs and water usage.

Smarter Quality
Scotsman was the first ice-machine manufacturer to receive ISO9001:2000 certification, become a Shingo Award finalist, and receive recognition by Industry Week as one of the top-10 best plants in America.

Energy Effeicient

Scotsman offers a variety of air cooled Prodigy® Ice Machine models that have qualified for Energy Star® as well as CEE Tier 3 or 2 rating. Commerical cube ice machines that have earned Energy Star are up to 15% more water and energy efficient than standard models. Rebates of up to $500 are also available on energy-efficient Scotsman Ice Machines.
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Scotsman Ice Cube ice makers are energy efficient machines that offer maximum ice production with minimal kilowatts per hour and water usage. This results in a reduction of operating costs over the life of the ice maker.

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Smarter Food Safety
AquaArmor,™ utilizing AgION® and patented WaterSense systems, is built in to many of Scotsmans products to keep ice machines cleaner longer.

Smarter Performance
With features such as AutoAlert™ external indicator lights, Eclipse® remote ice making, and AutoSentryTM self-monitoring technology, making operation easy, foolproof, and reliable.

Smarter Choices
Scotsman offers the most choices of ice forms in the industry today, with The original chewable ice™, flake ice, individual clear contour cubes, cubelets, and small and medium cubes.

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