MattWeatherford
Hatching
- Feb 19, 2015
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Hey Folks,
We upgraded to Chicken coop 2.0 last year in order to make it rat proof - one of the items we added was the ADOR1
automatic chicken door: http://adorstore.com/products/ador1-automatic-chicken-door
Its been a year now and this door has been super reliable. a couple of notes from long use and my memory of the install.
during the install, make sure the screws that fasten the door dont go in so tight as to warp the frame of the ADOR1,
that can cause open/close problems.
In over 300 days of use, the door only failed to close a couple of times, when the battery was low. pushing the door
down manually seemed to get it moving again.
I just replaced the first lantern battery a month ago - this thing really has a tiny battery usage footprint
Rod also worked with me on programming the door to do a complicated "manual open only, but always close
at dawn" setup - I decided not to go that way but its cool that it was possible, if not techy, to set it up.
Another note, my 2 yr old loves to press the open/close button multiple times when she is out playing with the
chickens in the chicken yard (yes, its messy) but the ADOR always does the right thing at dawn. Its a smart door.
It knows to close if its open at sunset and not just "toggle state" if the kids closed it already.
Anyway, another satisfied customer.
Chiaki did a chicken coop layout posting of our first coop, I guess we owe you guys a new set of drawings for the new
ratproof design.
Oh yea, I also LOVE this ratproof feeder:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/155549133/rat-proof-chicken-feeder-small-size
chickens have fully "decorated it" and it is still functioning great
Matt
We upgraded to Chicken coop 2.0 last year in order to make it rat proof - one of the items we added was the ADOR1
automatic chicken door: http://adorstore.com/products/ador1-automatic-chicken-door
Its been a year now and this door has been super reliable. a couple of notes from long use and my memory of the install.
during the install, make sure the screws that fasten the door dont go in so tight as to warp the frame of the ADOR1,
that can cause open/close problems.
In over 300 days of use, the door only failed to close a couple of times, when the battery was low. pushing the door
down manually seemed to get it moving again.
I just replaced the first lantern battery a month ago - this thing really has a tiny battery usage footprint
Rod also worked with me on programming the door to do a complicated "manual open only, but always close
at dawn" setup - I decided not to go that way but its cool that it was possible, if not techy, to set it up.
Another note, my 2 yr old loves to press the open/close button multiple times when she is out playing with the
chickens in the chicken yard (yes, its messy) but the ADOR always does the right thing at dawn. Its a smart door.
It knows to close if its open at sunset and not just "toggle state" if the kids closed it already.
Anyway, another satisfied customer.
Chiaki did a chicken coop layout posting of our first coop, I guess we owe you guys a new set of drawings for the new
ratproof design.
Oh yea, I also LOVE this ratproof feeder:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/155549133/rat-proof-chicken-feeder-small-size
chickens have fully "decorated it" and it is still functioning great
Matt