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 Ditch the Stirrups
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Location: Sorrow Not! Defending against workplace bullies | What brand/type of tank de icer would you recommend? I thought I was ready for winter because I had two new ones ready to go. But neither one works at all! |
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  Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | This is the ones we just got and are happy with them so far. Just make sure you get ones that you can use in your tank (depending on if it's metal or plastic)
http://www.ruralking.com/farm-innovators-ice-chaser-cast-aluminum-floating-plastic-tank-de-icer-model-h-418-1250-watt.html?utm_medium=google&utm_source=cse&CAWELAID=1624225507&catargetid=520009190000012734&cadevice=c&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CJa0_vOF_LoCFZFDMgodhz0APw |
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Ditch the Stirrups
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Location: Sorrow Not! Defending against workplace bullies | Thanks! i am going to try those out! |
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 Ms. Potato Head
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Location: BFE, Idaho | That is the one I use, my guy does not like his water to get warm/hot, so this has worked for him, as it turns off when above 32 degrees. |
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 Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | I use the ones that screw into the drain hole of the tank. Years ago, we had a horse get electrocuted and die from a floating tank heater. |
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| Has anyone had troubles with the drain plug de-icer made for the Rubbermaid tanks? We bought 3 so far and each one has sent about 4.3 volts of current through the water. We have has an electrician out to check the plug. It is grounded and GFI plug with weather box all has checked out and is correct. Any suggestions? Have pulled the last one and taking it back for something else. This is in a brand new Rubbermaid tank too. |
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 Toastest with the Mostest
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Location: That part of Texas | brlracerchick - 2013-11-24 8:42 AM I use the ones that screw into the drain hole of the tank. Years ago, we had a horse get electrocuted and die from a floating tank heater.
I just bought one of these but haven't had a chance to try it out yet because we were already having low temps (so that I couldn't drain the tank and refill it) before I had a chance to install. Mine like to play with the ones that float and still like to fish the other ones out that sit at the bottom in a cage (and have almost set fire to the wood fence panels around the stock tank by doing so) so this is my last hope. It's either this or I'm moving to the coast. |
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Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | Bobosmom - 2013-11-24 10:43 AM Has anyone had troubles with the drain plug de-icer made for the Rubbermaid tanks? We bought 3 so far and each one has sent about 4.3 volts of current through the water. We have has an electrician out to check the plug. It is grounded and GFI plug with weather box all has checked out and is correct. Any suggestions? Have pulled the last one and taking it back for something else. This is in a brand new Rubbermaid tank too.
No suggestions, but I have Rubbermaid tanks and have never had that problem. I don't know what brand our tank heater is, but I do know I got it from Tractor Supply. |
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My mind still works
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| I just use the simple bucket heaters in my tanks.(75 gallon metal). Works awesome for here in Oklahoma.
The floaters get tossed on the ground.
Cords get yanked too so I run mine through an under sink cheapo kit. Run your cord through it and hang the neck over the side.
Can't remember the posters that has electric current. If grounded etc and been checked, its most likely the heater itself.
I use the same type bucket heaters in my Rubbermaids. They won't burn through the bottom just laying on the bottom of the tank either.
But try an actual ground wire grounded into the ground and a heavy piece of wire bent over the edge. That might work/help |
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 Sexy Bee Yacht
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Location: WA | I love the Floating Tank De Icers (You saw the pic on my FB), Model #7521 by Allied Precision Industries. I have used the guards on them before but have never had a problem with without them. Our tanks are all at least 25 gallon so no worry of them bumping them and getting burned. |
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 Living on the edge of common sense
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Location: Carpenter, WY | brlracerchick - 2013-11-24 6:42 AM I use the ones that screw into the drain hole of the tank. Years ago, we had a horse get electrocuted and die from a floating tank heater.
That's what we use here also. Haven't been above 0 here in about 6 days now and it's like a sauna They use the floating heaters as frisbees no matter how we've tried to protect them and have been very happy with the plug heaters for about 6 years now.
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 Star Padded Honey
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Location: NW MT | Bobosmom - 2013-11-24 9:43 AM Has anyone had troubles with the drain plug de-icer made for the Rubbermaid tanks? We bought 3 so far and each one has sent about 4.3 volts of current through the water. We have has an electrician out to check the plug. It is grounded and GFI plug with weather box all has checked out and is correct. Any suggestions? Have pulled the last one and taking it back for something else. This is in a brand new Rubbermaid tank too.
We had problems in past years, so what we've done since: Ground really good, rod in as deep as you can go next to the tank & a copper grounding wire that runs from the rod & wraps around the bar of the heater. Also, put the tank off the ground - I set mine on pallets & even put a sheet of styrofoam insulation between the pallet & the tank. Don't know if any of that will help you or not? |
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Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Rockyroad - 2013-12-08 9:15 PM
Bobosmom - 2013-11-24 9:43 AM Has anyone had troubles with the drain plug de-icer made for the Rubbermaid tanks? We bought 3 so far and each one has sent about 4.3 volts of current through the water. We have has an electrician out to check the plug. It is grounded and GFI plug with weather box all has checked out and is correct. Any suggestions? Have pulled the last one and taking it back for something else. This is in a brand new Rubbermaid tank too.
We had problems in past years, so what we've done since: Ground really good, rod in as deep as you can go next to the tank & a copper grounding wire that runs from the rod & wraps around the bar of the heater. Also, put the tank off the ground - I set mine on pallets & even put a sheet of styrofoam insulation between the pallet & the tank. Don't know if any of that will help you or not?
I think it is suggested to do ground rods for anything electric put into tanks. We have ground rods in both ours. |
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Location: LaCygne, KS | ninaom - 2013-11-23 5:12 PM What brand/type of tank de icer would you recommend? I thought I was ready for winter because I had two new ones ready to go. But neither one works at all!
Make sure you have power coming from the reciptible that you plugged your cord into. You may have a circuit breaked that needs reset. If there is a red "reset" button on your recipitable, push it in and see if this helps. |
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Blessed 
Location: Here | Been through all the others K&h rock!! Mine are several years old and still are amazing |
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Location: Here | http://www.khmfg.com/farmandranch/stock-tank-de-icers-filters/ultim... |
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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | I have the old timey ones that sink to the bottom of my non-metal tanks. I also have each one run out of a different outlet and each has a ground fault interuppter on it. sometimes its not the heater its that its using to much amps (?) and can throw the breaker or zap itself out. |
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Location: The South | Bobosmom - 2013-11-24 10:43 AM Has anyone had troubles with the drain plug de-icer made for the Rubbermaid tanks? We bought 3 so far and each one has sent about 4.3 volts of current through the water. We have has an electrician out to check the plug. It is grounded and GFI plug with weather box all has checked out and is correct. Any suggestions? Have pulled the last one and taking it back for something else. This is in a brand new Rubbermaid tank too.
How do you check to see if you've got voltage going through your water? This has got me freaked out! We've got a 100 gallon plastic Rubbermaid tank and the de-icer is one that screws into the drain plug. |
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