W-409 1000W Submergible Bucket Heater with Attached Guard

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Bought this to heat up my son’s swimming pool. Did an amazing job of heating it up to 30°. Better than anything i have tried. So it must work in winter for water dishes 😆

I had been using the same manufactured heater with lesser wattage (250w) but they kept stopped working and only lasted one season. Bought this 1000w one because our winters can be well into the minus 20's C. As it turned out we've had an unusually mild winter and my only complaint is that the water in my insulated tank is like soup. I have to unplug it on warm days of course but sure doesn't let the water freeze. Next time I think I'd get a 750w. But very happy with it. Horses leave it alone and it works well.

OK, I tried to make a large doggy dooly digester by digging a big hole and lining it with crushed stone. Then I inverted a plastic trash can with holes in the side and put it in the big hole. Then I back filled the sides with crushed stone and put a 5-gallon bucket (with the bottom cut out) nestled in a hole I cut out of the bottom of the trash can. This created a funnel for the poop to go through and into the upside-down trash can. I back filled it all until only the lid of the 5-gallon pale was showing. This was all because I have 5 big dogs...smarty pants I am. Then I filled it with dog poop until it was filled to the top. I put in digester but because the hole was so deep, it essentially acted like a root cellar and kept the poop slurry refrigerated so it wouldn't digest and leach into the ground. So, smarty pants 2.0, I purchased this heater to put in the bottom of the hole to heat up the now 55 gallons of poop so it would digest and leach into the ground. Well, the heater worked great! It warmed up the poop, so it bubbled and burped and farted, but it still wouldn't leach into the ground. I now have a 55-gallon dog poop time capsule. but the heater worked great! Use it for its intended purpose and it will definitely keep watering troughs from freezing.

This is working amazingly. It really heats the water relatively quickly to have a very hot shower, it steams up my bathroom with the exhaust fan on. I am using this in my cottage as I drain the water lines in the winter but am staying up north and needed a solution.