Chook doors

 Just a quick post to mark when we made some changes.

The automatic chook doors had lithium AA batteries in them, they've been running happily for a while. One was struggling and opening late so I assumed the batteries were running low.

Swapped out the lithiums for some standard alkaline AA's (store brand). We'll see how long they last. Good news is that I tested the old batteries to see how flat they were and they all came up as over 1.5v - so they weren't flat. Can use those somewhere else.

In other news, hit an obstacle on the road and blew two tyres. That's gonna be expensive.