MAXXAIR Maxxfan Deluxe Vent, Fan and Vent Cover All in One - Powerful 10-Speed Reversible Fan with Thermostat, Built-In Rain Cover, Remote Control, Intake & Exhaust Fan, White (00-07000K)

A finicky fan… yeah, but worth every penny. I bought two of these and installed them on the roof of a box truck (a van front with a box rear end) I use the pair to circulate the air inside my van. They do NOT force a huge gust of wind in the van but they will exchange the air enough to help evacuate odors, or excess heat. My box (on the van) is 10’ long by 80” wide. After build out the inside was considerably smaller (insulation… a must) they are about 4 1/2’ apart and do a decent job but I never get the “strong wind” from them as I was told to expect. One is directly over my bed and I’m one of those people who MUST have moving air running across me or I can’t sleep. The fan just doesn’t ‘push’ a lot of air at once, even on high- but it’s not for a lack of trying The remote is a nice feature and even though I can sit in the center of my box and reach up to change settings, there is something amusing and innately American about pressing a remote button to make stuff happen!! The rain protection is usually a feature I love. Since I have slide windows, rain means being closed up. Having the fans to keep a continuous flow of fresh air in and stale air out means comfort and it does this admirably. I did find out that rain proof is a misnomer. When the freaky northern monsoon rains hit, the rain was going side ways enough to get under the lip and had to be closed… my fault not the fan. A quick reparking facing away from the deluge and all was right in the world!😬 so beware when Mother Nature gets creative! The Maxxair fans require a consistent 12v of power. When my solar panels get my batteries to 100%…. The pesky Maxxair fans SHUT OFF!!! I turn them back on and they almost immediately shut off. Similarly when connected to shore power (which can charge my humble 300ah lifepo4’s in a blink) the fans shut off! What’s funny is that in the summer when I’m glad to have my batteries charged completely to run the fans, the full charge sets in at the hottest part of the day… which means while I’m roasting my ‘unmentionable’ off, the fans go on break. I found that I have to disconnect from solar so my batteries can deplete as the fans do their thing! I recently learned of a small device to put between power source and fan. What it’s designed to do is maintain a clean 12v. It eliminates the problems experienced when greater than 12v is available. (Similar issues occur when underpowered) The outside of the fan is plastic and not a very durable one. Sadly when placed on a roof and allowed to bathe beneath southwestern US sunshine all day, something’s gotta give. The plastic gets brittle on every piece even what’s below the outside shroud and careless bumping into it will fracture the plastic. The white outside shroud or lid lets in a ton of light. If you like sleeping in total darkness or the very hint of daylight in your berth forces you to consciousness, I suggest a sleep mask. I took tbe novel approach of cleaning sanding and painting the exterior lid with Flex seal. It hardly affected the intrusion of daylight but has strengthened the fans lid. Next year I may repeat the process on the inside to help darken the room. It also offers a bit of sound deadening and keeps the plastic underside a tad cooler. The fan is expensive but easy to install, reliable, and full featured. It’s quirky when you need it to function flawlessly but there is a plethora of helpful advice on the web to help you sort it all out. Overall a sound investment. When these two break down for good I’ll replace with the exact same thing but I’ll pre paint the housing etc with flex seal because I think it’s a wise bit of protection for plastic that Doesn’t play well with sunlight. I hope this helps you. For further context, I’ve li ed full time in this van for 3 years now so I’ve gone through a lot with these fans. I gotta say I like em…. I hope you do too. Happy shopping friends!

This fan is light years ahead of Fantastic Crap Vent. Everything about this fan is better quality that Fantastic Crap. Super quiet, great remote, and a REAL rain cover built in. I don't worry about leaving this on all the time, even when I'm out of the RV. The install is easy and the best part is the housing that goes through the roof is a standard size so no addition cutting is required. The trim all stays in place if you need to remove the fan for any reason to clean or work on it, just remove a couple screws and unplug it to take it off the roof. I have another fan still that is the equivalent in features made by Fantastic Crap and it is like dealing with 20 year old technology compared to the MAXXAIR. The prices are equivalent but the quality goes to MAXXAIR. Before Atwood bought Fantasic Vent, they would at least stand behind their crappy product, not they tell you to by an "upgrade" if you call for parts. Update 7/22/2017, after almost a year of full time use the MAXXAIR continues to work great. It has actually become even quieter with use. I bought an "upgrade" to my living room fantastic vent at the same time I purchased this Maxxair for the bedroom. The fantastic vent already failed two months ago, the main board fried and Fantastic vent want me to take my parked 5th wheel to the nearest camping world to have it looked at. I told them I can replace the main board, the fan motor still works. They refuse to send me parts. I would have expected the FANTASTIC VENT to last at least one year, nope! As for the MAXXAIR, my only complaint so far is the extremely bright green LED that is always ON when in the AUTO mode. I had to put black tape over it in order to sleep in a dark room.

I loved this fan so much in my trailer that I bought a second one for my camper. It is easy to install, high quality, easy to use, runs quiet, and a bargain in my opinion. It was a nice finishing touch on my camper that adds a touch of luxury that wasn't there with the original, manual crank, can't-use-when-it's-raining, can't-use-when-it's-closed old piece of junk that was there before. My wife loves this fan because she likes to change the settings in the middle of the night without having to get out of the bed. She also loves being able to have the air flow IN while the exhaust fan over the stove flows OUT. She is an awesome cook and great cooking needs ventilation. People complained on these reviews that you cannot close it while the fan is running: FALSE! Just click the open/close button (on the panel or the remote) and there you go. People complained on these reviews that it uses an IR remote (you have to point it at the unit, like you do with a TV remote) but I find this to be a benefit and not a drawback because I wouldn't want to accidentally control the one in the camper when I am trying to control the one in the trailer (or else my wife will get very mad at me), and I definitely wouldn't want someone camping next to me to control my fan. This thing is awesome and well worth spending hundreds more than you would on a basic piece of junk. :-Dave

After installing this fan and using it a few days I am happy to say that it has exceeded my expectations. I had a MaxxAir cover on my old RV vent and the ability to always leave the vent open is something I really missed with our new RV. So I was pleased to find this product that seemed to combine the MaxxAir concept with a fan and a remote. It works as advertised plus it has a few other features they don't mention for some reason. First of all, most fans are mounted directly to the roof so removing it means breaking the seal with the roof and many screws. This one has a simple plastic mount piece that is attached to the roof and the entire fan unit slips into that. So later if you want to take it out for any reason you remove just 4 screws on the side of the plastic mount, unplug two wires, pull up and it comes completely out. Very nice. Since this fan is more complicated there are more things to go wrong so this might be a welcome feature, not that I'm expecting that. It seems very well made. Another nice feature is that it uses a modern chopper circuit for controlling the fan speed. Every other RV fan I've seen use resistors to drop down the fan speed which is very low-tech. They get hot and waste energy. Most often we are on battery using our fan (otherwise the AC would be on) so it always annoys me to know that not only am I wasting battery but heating the RV (slightly) to boot. Even though it's more powerful than my old fan it draws less power at the lower speeds because of the chopper circuit. For example, at the middle speed the old fan draws 0.9 amps and the new one 0.8, and it's moving more air. Because it has more speeds (10 vs 3) the lower speed is lower. The lowest speed uses 0.6 amps with the old fan vs 0.17 amps on the new, and it's nearly silent. At the top speed it takes more current, 2.3 amps vs 1.26 on the old fan, but it's more powerful so that's to be expected. The extra air flow will be nice on those really hot days. The last thing is that it is not as big as the original MaxxAir units. It doesn't have to be. The MaxxAir units had to fit over the original open vent requiring a larger and clunky design. Since they don't have to accommodate a hatch cranked all the way open, they could start from scratch and design a lower profile and sleeker looking unit. So even without considering the fan it's a better MaxxAir unit just for ventalation. My wife has a disability that makes it difficult to reach the fan, so the remote is a very nice feature. That was the reason I bought this fan. However I think they could appeal to a much wider audience if they pitched it just as a top-of-the-line MaxxAir with fan. The remote could be placed last in their feature list as the quality features are what really sell it. I remember seeing the ad's before but passed it over because it looked like a gimmicky product for lazy people who didn't want to get off their rear ends to turn a knob on their fan. It is obviously much more than that. The remote is very well designed and love it now that I have it, but I didn't know I wanted one until I had it.

The fans are nice in general. Seem to be solid. Install easily. Works most of the time. I did find, however, that if you are in a cold place and want to insulate the fan opening using a foam block (like so many of us do to cut down on the drafts), the screens on these unit rust instantly and the fan may not operate anymore. In just one month, the screens are super rusty and ugly and after removing the foam blocks, the fans would not work at all. Had to remove the circuit fuse several times and keep pushing buttons to try to turn them on. They started working again, but obviously, they can stand any kind of humidity, which is sad. I replaced cheap vent/fans that never rusted and worked fine after insulating. After 18 months of regular use, the motor is completely worn out. These are NOT brushless motors. That means they have brushes rubbing on an armature that wears down. They will ALWAYS wear out. Brushless can run forever. The motors are $100 EACH!!!!! Summary, you pay a lot, they can burn out and the motors WILL WEAR OUT.

I installed this in a custom camping cargo trailer in 2016 and pretty much keep it going 24/7 in the 70+ degree days at low speed just to keep things ventilated (this is essentially April-November where I live). Well last month (Aug. 2019), i closed the vent so I could transport the trailer to my storage facility. Once I got to my destination, the fan would not open. The motor to lift the cover would run and I would hear a clicking sound but it would not raise up. This indicated to me that a part had failed. I end up manually propping the fan open at my storage place and took a few photos so I could try to find parts (it was 100* outside, so i was not going to try to take it apart once I saw a broken metal piece). I go to the manufacturer website but the PDF's do not open ("not found"). I call customer service and get a pretty rude agent who accuses me of being a guy he talked to earlier the same day. I assured him that I was not and he was very abrasive about the part I needed. I asked for a full parts list and he passive aggressively says he will email it to me since I was not capable of downloading it. A few hours later he did what he said he was going to do. I found the part (10A20281K-1AF) for $15 from a few RV dealers. I now have the part on the way but I am still pretty miffed on how I was treated. The part seems to be a cheaply made zinc part. I just wish they used a sturdier metal so I didnt have to take this whole blasted fan apart to replace the part that shattered. The fan is a good fan and other than this failure, it has been quiet and reliable and it is MUCH better than the static vent with a dinky fan attached in one of the corners. It can move some air too. I only keep it around 20-30% speed most of the time. I am happy they have parts for it, otherwise I was prepared to buy another identical fan (although I was dreading having to pay another $200 for a new unit).

I have been using this fan on a daily basis for over a year. I have it running almost 24/7 powered by my goal zero yeti 400. The fan constantly runs at 20-30% because my dog is in the van for a few hours at a time when I am working. I have peace of mind knowing I can set the temperature and the fan will automatically kick up the speed if needed. Even when I park in the sun, this fan keeps the internal temperatures below 70degrees. I live/work in SF near the ocean so this also helps regulate the temperature. When I visit Tahoe and colder areas, I have it run at 10% during the evenings to prevent moisture from condensing inside. The install took less than an hour, that includes cutting a hole in the roof, installing the fan, and setting up the wiring. The remote works great for my needs, I mounted it right next to the door so I can turn the fan on and off without having to climb all the way into my van. I need to clean the fan about once every other month when the screen and blades get covered in dust. The waterproof cover works great, it has survived many rain and snow storms, it's fantastic to circulate air when the weather is not agreeable! 100% would recommend this fan for anyone considering the #vanlife!

Got this as a replacement for an older fantastic fan and love it! The fantastic fan wasn’t bad either, we just wanted to move it to another vent that needed replacement and since this one is right over our bed, we wanted to be able to easily control it and also leave it running during inclement weather. It fit perfectly and install in the original hole was easy. Functions perfectly and we love the ability to switch the direction. Just returned from a two-week fall trip to the desert where we were parked in full sun. We used this midday to keep things cool and it worked great. We just have 12v battery with a 100 watt solar panel. This thing could be on for hours without running down the battery. We never had to use a generator the whole time, even when we left it on after the sun went down for a number of hours. One thing to keep mind of is the Dimensional footprint of the hood, as ours was very close to our AC unit. Had it been much longer, the hood wouldn’t have worked for us. Fortunately it did and we couldn’t be happier!

This unit comes complete, it was very easy to install and it works well. It moves a lot of air and is nice and quiet.

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Firstly, I have say that I have two Fantastic Fans in our trailer - one in the bedroom and the second over the kitchen. I use them constantly throughout the summer. I have had this 29ft camper for 11 years now and I can honestly say that I can count on two hands the number of times I actually used the AC in preference to the fans. Doors and windows have to be shut for the AC to work. It is so loud inside the camper that you cannot carryon a conversation or listen to the radio or TV. We don’t travel where it constantly gets over 35C. Nor do we suffer high humidity. AC is not of much value either when you cannot plug in. So when it came time to do my last semi-annual check of the AC, it failed. Replacement quote was $1096CND plus installation. After a little soul searching, I could not justify laying out that much cash for what amounts to a roof ornament. So with he help of a friend, we hoisted the broken AC off the roof and I installed the Maxxfan 7000 with remote. Chose this model over a comparable Fantastic Fan for the integrated vent cover and the overall good online reviews. They are rather pricy but the build quality looks excellent. Amazon had the best price but be careful, it can increase over $100 when stock gets low. The remote was required due to the ceiling height. Installation instructions are clear. There is also an excellent online video to follow. Search for Maxx Fan Installation by RV Education.

This is one of the nicest fans on the market. It sure move the air and on lower speeds is very quiet. Good quality product.

Automatically opens and closes and adjusts speed, depending on interior temp setting. Rain-sensing and closes when appropriate. Set and forget. Wonderfully effective. Worth every penny.