Water Rippler Dual Power Stock Tank Circulator, Electric and Solar Ready

No. It comes with a 15 foot adapter cord and quarter inch ring terminals. The panel is not included.

No. You supply the 12 volt battery. The Rippler connects to it, it does not come with it.

A 12 volt battery, a solar panel and charge controller sized to keep that battery up, and the wiring and mounting to go with it. The Rippler brings the pump and the cord. If you do not have a solar setup and do not want to build one, buy the electric version instead.

That depends on your latitude, your winter daylight, your panel placement and how cold your battery gets. Short days and cold weather both cut what a system delivers, and winter is exactly when you need it running. We will not guess at a number for you. Talk to a local solar supplier before you order.

Not to the electric version, no. If you think you might want both, the Dual Power version ships with the 120 volt converter and the solar adapter cord in the same box.

No, and nobody honest will tell you it does. It slows ice from setting up. The makers tested it at 22 below and could push a hand through the thin layer left on top. Think of it as keeping water open and drinkable rather than keeping the tank bare.

It draws about 97 percent less energy than a 1,500 watt stock tank heater. The pump is 50 watts, roughly 1.2 kWh a day. What that saves in dollars depends on your electric rate, but the gap is large enough that it pays for itself over a winter or two on most rates.

Mosquitoes need still water to lay eggs on and algae likes still, warm water. Constant surface movement takes both of those conditions away, and moving water stays cooler and tastes better, which usually means cattle drink more.

Running water tends to draw stock to the tank rather than spook them. The housing is HDPE and built to live outdoors, but like anything in a tank it is worth keeping an eye on it the first week.

The unit is 12 inches by 12 inches. It ships with four high velocity caps for maximum flow and two blank caps you can swap in to redirect movement in a smaller tank.

The manufacturer strongly recommends it, and so do we. It is water and it is outdoors.

Six feet of power cord on the unit. The solar and dual versions add a 15 foot solar adapter cord on top of that.

High density polyethylene. It resists cracking, UV and water damage, which is what you want in something that sits in a tank in the sun all summer and the cold all winter.

There is a filter on the pump to keep debris out of the pump and the ports. Check it when you check the tank. A clogged filter is the first thing to look at if flow drops off.

Randall and Shondah Otwell, fourth generation ranchers near Oshoto in Crook County, Wyoming. They built it after the winter of 2019 left them fed up with tank heaters, went through four prototypes, and brought it to market through Agricultural Innovations LLC. Patent pending.