Omni Fount blends technology from both our traditional stainless steel units and our insulated poly units to provide the premier livestock fountain. Designed with animal safety in mind, the Omni 2 features smooth rounded edges and a fully insulated casing for energy efficiency. The stainless steel trough features thermostatically controlled heat elements that are attached to the underside for frost free service even under the most severe winter conditions. The Omni 2’s single trough has a fast refill valve providing fresh water for up to 40 head of cattle or horses. Easy to maintain and clean Large access panel for easy access to heating components and waterline. Heating elements are located directly under the stainless trough for exceptional performance Cable heater provides extra valve and supply line protection Insulated with highly energy efficient polyurethane foam, providing an r-factor of 7 per inch Water between 1-40 horses OmniFount unit comes complete and ready to install to your electric and water lines. 4 - 5" x 3/8" Stainless Steel anchor bolts recommended to anchor to the concrete pad. 10-year warranty
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Super great product. Installed last month. It will save me heating up a 180gal bucket that seemed to always run out on the coldest days. No sizzle when the heating elements were part in / part out of the water, either! Horses learned to drink the day it was installed (hint use apples). The noise from filling scared them a little at first. It seems SUPER study. A couple of notes on installation.... 1. I had to buy the tubes to hold the water line from Ritchie website. I'm in MI so our frost level is 42" so I went with a 4' tube and a 1' tube. They tell you just to duct tape the tubes together. Our biggest problem was that we used the black PTE water line. It was coiled up and despite having it stretched, it still wanted to curl in the yellow insular tube. Ritchie is very particular about the water tube not touching the side (after tests from whatever university MN, maybe?) so we ended up encasing the flexible PTE in a more rigid PVC tube. I won't know if it freezes until later this winter. I did buy a separate 3' heat tape that I will install if I have issues. Also, be careful that you install the grounding rod CLOSE to the yellow insular tube. Mine was too far from the center and now it is outside the rectangular case. I did add the optional outlet and plugged the fountain in. It makes sense in case you have issues. I also added a switch to the system to be able to turn the heat off instead of having to open the yellow box up.
I manage a horse racing farm that has many different auto water systems. Hands down, nothing compares to this. (For best results, follow the installation instructions). The manufacturer website has a great video
The drain plug is under the float. This design needs to be improved! Touching or moving float to pull and replace plug means you then have to make sure float is in the right position after cleaning. Design person needs to actually clean the waterer before sending this out as a finished product.
I installed roughins and after mounting fountain the tight space and small doorway made it difficult to hook up. Would not use GFCI but wire direct with remote switch. Tripping gfi caused freeze up. Caught it early or could of been bad. After rewire no problems in a very long cold Wisconsin winter.