Mfan: Yes I am mounting the conduit box and receptacle in the bottom. In the pictures above you can see how on the waters there is an opening next to the water valve to let the cord down through.
Pic 1) Top view of a Ritchie Watermatic 150 with the heater in the water tank.
Pic 2) Is just the simple plug in light socket I use. I found that a 40 watt bulb works best. 20 are not enough and a 60 is too much.
Pic 3) Is just a standard old conduit single box.
I mount the box up a few inches on the side wall of the waterer. This keeps it out of any water that may leak. I use a threaded wire clamp on the box where the wire comes through and just a metal cover. I do ground the box to the bare copper neutral. (I see Ruth from Ritchie says any hole voids the warranty) If two 1/8 inch holes 1/2 inch deep void the warranty then the waterers are junk to begin with. So I will have bigger problems than that. I just use two 10 guage x 3/4 inch long SS sheet metal screws to anchor the box to the waterer wall. It all depends on how the wire comes up the tube as to where I put the box. I have some on the ends and some on the back side wall. I wanted a solid mounting for the electric. I did not want a cord end just laying in the bottom of the waterer. I am not going to bet the area under a waterer is always going to be dry. So I chose to put the grounded box up several inches off the bottom. If it gets wet it is insulated from the outside of the waterer and will blow the breaker.
Twenty years ago I had an electric heater short out in a metal hog waterer. It killed twenty sows just a week before they where going to pig. Just about got me when I when over a metal gate to see what as wrong with them. So since then I have been real careful on making sure everything is grounded. That waterer killed half my sows. It made paying the bills tough for a while.
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