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I am happy to say we usually had over the years most battery reports of lasting well over one year and even more than 2 and as much as 3 years. Then a few years ago there were lots of phone calls about bad batteries, to the extent we have been selling the ADOR1 and ADOR2 with free battery...

These Run Chicken doors are cheap Chinese copy-cats in similar appearance to our ADOR doors and they also copied the ADOR drive. We innovated the Sprocket drive in 2012 and were the only ones with that design until the foreign companies somewhat copied it about 6 years later. My advice to those...

Chickens don't wear wrist watches :) ... they don't know what time it is. If your automatic door has good technology with their daylight sensing, then gppd daylight sensing is ideal. The chickens synchronize to the day's cycle, not to human clock time. Why would someone want to have to go...

The person you asked that question said they are still using the original battery (free battery) that we sent with their unit more than a year ago. We expect you to get at least a year. I can tell you that we buy the batteries by the pallet and test each one, loaded down, and reject any that...

It is the ADOR1 (not "ardor") to be pronounced "Adore" --- like "I adore it". Also sounds like "a door". Yes we ARE on Amazon. Used to be the first one listed but have moved down some. We have been on Amazon for years. There're are more and more foreign made competing units out there. We...

I have not been coming to BYC.com to answer questions often enough. Sorry. The ADOR1 responds very well in very shady areas for satisfactory opening time and shutting time. Usually overcast weather or rainy weather, if it affects opening time, it may be 5 or 10 minutes late and sometimes...

While we have so many thousands of happy customers that so often email me or call me to tell me how happy they are with their ADOR automatic door, remember that there will be some people who go to post something on the internet before they've given sufficient consideration regarding what...

I can see this is an old post... but suffice to say if you install an automatic door, you need to watch that the chickens have learned to go in. Before you had the automatic door, the chickens were bonded to your actions. Maybe waiting for the backdoor to open? Maybe some snacks? They watch...

This post is from 5 years ago, but here is a little history about the pulsating. At first we didn't know what the pulsating was due to. It was not a show stopper but it is nicer if it slides smoothly and most of the early ones did. But we found out the cause and this is what it is. If the...

Yes, it is designed to be mounted out in full weather, even on a fence. Warning, don't mount it sideways in the weather. That would be like turning your house on its side and expecting the wall to act like a roof.

Scooting through this thread from 5 years ago, I came upon this. It's pretty funny. There was a windstorm that tumbled the coop at night. See the coop is upside-down and in spite of it, the ADOR1 opened that morning. Some of these stories are too good!

I happened to be reading through these posts from 5 years ago and I just noticed the comment "It makes buying a non-returnable item a lot easier." Actually, it IS a returnable item. It rarely happens, but I've been real lenient about it. For instance a military person who got deployed right...

Since I wrote this 5 years ago, and said there are no customers out there who have reported getting three years from their battery, now we are here 5 years later. And truly some people have reported getting 3 years out of the cheap $3 6 volt lantern battery. Most people have probably replaced...

I just wanted to say to the audience of people who newly started reading through this thread.... note this message was posted 5 years ago. There was a shipping strike at the point of origin of our motors, and I thought we were prepared because I had doubled-up and another source was supposed...

Thank you Tcstoehr for composing that test sequence. Good job and good idea about using the jumper across pins 2 & 3 to test the response to the light input. However, I must clarify and edit some of what you said, for those who may want to follow your procedure. The suggestion to use a...

Hi Jewelwing, I don't know if you ever contacted me but I've not checked BYC.com much and am going to try to catch up on unanswered question. As far as batteries.... the cheapest lantern battery (like I suggest the $2.88 battery from Walmart) should last at least one year. Many people report...

Deannacat, I found you in our data base, so I just searched my emails from you and I find no emails. I see you say there was a delay and that this happened at the time we had just moved our home and office 80 miles almost a year ago and there were some effects from that, so I'm sorry it...

I can answer that the ADOR does have the late-comer feature that you can turn ON or OFF. We call that feature LAST CALL where the door opens again after it shuts, and stays open for a few minutes for any late-comers. If a chicken is in the way of the door when it shuts, if the resistance of...

"...works great. Rod I sent you some pictures ..." Dwink2: thanks for the photos of your ADOR2 installation you emailed to us. That's a good looking install. Of course if you want you could post photos here right in this forum thread, or could anybody else who has an ADOR2 installation...

dwink2: Thanks for the info. But I've got to say, we don't recommend running ADOR1 nor ADOR2 on 12V. These doors are designed to run on 6V and tolerate 12V, and in my opinion the door moves too fast at 12V and may lead to extra wear on the motor. But you are running successfully on 12V for...