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Automatic Chicken Door + Solar Module Bundle

CT-003A-Solar

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Coop Tender® Internet WiFi Enabled Solar Automatic Chicken Coop Door is a fusion of advanced micro-controller electronics, solid steel drive and time-honored wood craftsmanship. 

Suitable for standard, exotic and heritage backyard chicken breeds. For large chicken breeds such as Brahma, Jersey Giant, and Cochin, consider the Large Automatic Chicken Door..

Door operates with power generated from the sun.

Automatically opens your coop door at dawn and securely closes it at dusk, or schedule door open and close times!

Programmable door controller: Program custom options, adjust settings and manually override your door.

Automatic Coop Door is constructed with solid 1 inch dimensional lumber. Indoor / Outdoor rated select grade pine lumber is treated with an environmentally safe, non-toxic treatment which lasts a lifetime and never needs to be re-applied!

At-A-Glance Status LED Lights make it easy to check the status of your coop door from a distance in the dark.

Key Chicken Coop Door Features:

  • Automatically Opens and Closes your Coop Door
  • Solar operated: 15 Watt solar panel + 12 Volt 5 Ah battery 
  • Three modes of operation: Dawn-to-Dusk (A.K.A. Dusk-to-Dawn), Schedule, or Manual
  • Internet Enabled - Internet Wi-Fi module sold separately. 
  • Freeze Protect - door stays closed when it's too cold outside
  • Programmable dawn and dusk delays - delay opening and closing for any amount of time (1 minute to 10 hours).
  • Computer driven digital control eliminates frozen mechanical components in winter
  • Solid Steel Acme threaded screw drive: True door lockdown. Predators are not able to open it when it is closed.
  • Simple installation.  Slide door into cutout in coop, secure with 4 mounting screws (included).
  • Manual Control:  Open and close the door manually using the keypad menu. With the optional Wi-Fi module, use the Universal Web App remote control.
  • 1 inch dimensional lumber construction - Outdoor rated select grade pine 
  • 100% predator proof!  Have peace of mind knowing that your hens are safe at night. Door cannot be opened by raccoons, cougars, bobcats, mink, coyotes, opossums, skunks or any other nighttime predator
  • Fully assembled

Energy Efficient - Solar Chicken Door Operation:

Our coop door controller is designed to be highly energy efficient, permitting operation by using solar power from the sun.

At its core, Coop Tender Auto Coop Door runs on 12 Volts DC.  Our door controllers come standard capable of running from standard household AC electricity, or from a 12 Volt DC power source.

An AC to DC power converter is built into our coop door controllers which converts your AC electricity to DC voltage.  The AC power consumption is highly efficient at 1 Watt. DC power consumption is less than 50 milliAmps at 12 volts DC.

Battery Backup: Install a 12 Volt 5 Amp-hour SLA DC Battery in the door controller - should electric power fail, the battery will run your door for about 5 days, until your electricity is restored.

A battery charger / maintainer is built into our coop door controllers. When AC power is restored, the backup battery is recharged. 

Solar Operation: Connecting a solar panel allows for Coop Door operation without AC electricity. A 15 Watt solar panel combined with the backup battery above will run your door without AC electricity.  The solar panel will provide power even in low-light situations until full sunlight is available.  Three to four hours of sunlight per day is sufficient to charge and maintain the battery during solar door operation.

[semi-technical] DC power consumption is highly efficient at less than 50 milliamps.  If system voltage gets low, the door controller will go into power save mode which utilizes about 20 milliamps, preserving power until enough sunlight is available to recharge.

Solar Automatic Chicken Door Specifications:

Input Voltage

85 - 264 Volts AC (Electric Operation)

12 - 19 Volts DC (Solar Operation)

AC Power consumption

1 Watt

DC Power consumption (idle)

40mA @ 12VDC

DC Power consumption (power save mode)

20mA @ 12VDC

DC Power consumption (chicken door opening or closing)

150mA-300mA @ 12VDC

Max Charging Power

600mA

Automatic Chicken Door cutout dimensions

26 1/2 inches high x 13 1/2 inches wide

Automatic Chicken Door overall dimensions

26 1/2 inches high x 17 1/2 inches wide x 5 5/16 inches deep

Coop door opening dimensions

10 inches high x 10 inches wide

Material

  • Select grade pine rated indoor/outdoor treated with non-toxic lifetime treatment
  • Brushed aluminum metal faceplate
  • 5/8 inch Solid steel Acme threaded screw drive

Drive mechanism

solid steel worm / screw drive

DC motor

12 Volts

Door opening time

~1 minute

Door closing time

~1 minute 

Operating temperature

-20 to +185 ℉


Solar Operation Notes:
15 Watt solar panel + 12 Volt 5Ah SLA battery sufficient to operate the system in most parts of the U.S.See the Direct Normal Solar Irradiance map below to check average Irradiance (solar energy) available in your location. The map shows a gradient color coded chart with 9 levels of Irradiace measured in kWh/M2/Day.

If you live in a light-yellow area on the map, or the area typically receives less than 4.9 kWh/m2/day, it may be necessary to connect a second or larger battery.NREL Direct Normal Solar Irradiance map

In the map above, the light yellow color gradient represents an area with low solar energy. The following link will take you to a PDF version of the map directly from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) website: https://www.nrel.gov/gis/assets/pdfs/solar_dni_2018_01.pdf

Included in your Automatic Chicken Door Solar Bundle:

All U.S bound and international orders ship via FedEx, UPS or United States Postal Service (U.S.P.S.).  

Orders ship within 2 to 5 business days. If you have an urgent need, please contact us. We will do our best to accommodate.

The UPS delivery map below shows how many days your automatic chicken door order will take to be delivered once shipped.

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Transit days may increase during peak holiday seasons.

We reserve the right to cancel any order if actual shipping charges become unreasonable to ship your order.   You will be notified if this should occur.

We are not responsible for incorrect addresses or extra charges that may occur from changing an address after your order has shipped. If you provided an incorrect address at checkout or request an address change after your order has shipped, you will be responsible for any additional charges which may be incurred to reroute your order.

 

Handcrafted

Quality Precision

Precision, attention to detail and extensive testing ensure a quality, long lasting automatic chicken door.

Testimonials

★★★★★

Best Purchase EVER!!- I researched a lot of automatic coop doors before I decided on the Coop Tender, and the final decision was easy based off the options that came with it.This is the best door on the market and has made our life so much easier.Not to mention the peace of mind it offers. Being able to control and monitor the door from my phone is a game changer!!

Paula D.
★★★★★

Best decision to buy -Easy install. Quick shipping. Excellent customer service.Makes my life so much easier that the animals are let out in the morning and locked up in the evening, especially if I am working in the early morning/late evening or the ferry left me stranded away from home for the night. I in stalled it in May and its now September- not issues with the way it works. Well worth the money you spend!

Violetta N.
★★★★★

This door is the best choice!- Excellent tech support. Works like the cats meow. Has safeguarded my chickies from opossom, racoons, bobcats, foxes,The worm drive design is far superior to the draw string design.

Lester E.
★★★★★

Must Have!!!!- We love our new coop door! We feel safe if we are not home when it gets dark because the door closes itself. Our girls are safe we love the wfif option

Marcy W.
Los Angeles, CA
★★★★★

Excellent product,well made and easy to set up.

Greg S.
★★★★★

Excellent Chicken Coop Door System! I highly recommend this product and company.They are there for product support and stand behind their product 100%. Our coop system works great!

Tamara F.
Los Angeles, CA
★★★★★

Simply amazing!!!Freedom and safety equals peace of mind! Thank you Jim for your extraordinary customer support!

Cynthia P.
★★★★★

Excellent build quality.I love the look and solid build of this door!

Pedro R.
★★★★★

Keeps on tickin' after 5 years!- It's been 5 years and this door is still a workhorse. None of that flimsy string like other auto-doors. I had one of those and it lasted less than 5 months and I never knew the status. I have the WiFi module. Other than occasional maintenance, this coop door is trouble-free and reliable…Do not buy anything else!

Kristen C.
Los Angeles, CA

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