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What issues in the cold and at what temp? Does it come with everything you need, including the actual door? Is it an adjustable timer? Does it work off battery or need eletrictiy?
It comes with everything but the power & you get to decide if you want it to run off a battery or plug.
I run mine off a deep cycle marine battery & plug in a trickle charger. All of that because I didn't want to take a chance that a power outage would stop the door from opening / closing.
You can just as easily plug in a 12 volt adapter & hook it up.
Its a very high quality item & I'm very happy with it.
The timer is internal. You use a magnet to reset it & then use the magnet again to open it. The door will forever remember the time it opened & will open the same time every day.
in the evening you use the magnet again to close the door & it will forever remember the time to close. It even re-opens the door for a minute some time after it closes just in case some birds don't make it by the first close.
I have just recently had cold issues - it was in the teens when it started acting up. It was only an issue for a couple days, but they were days the girls didn't want to go out anyway. We had 4 inches of snow & they thought they were on Mars.
I thawed it out & it seems to be fine now - but I'm at work now & leave before its supposed to open. Since we free range we like to keep them locked up until reasonably late in the morning so the rooster doesnt dance around under the neighbors bedroom window & wake them up.
