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RV style vent fan

Forgive my ramble. When the wife and I were looking around to get a teardrop, we had the fortune of being able to rent a teardrop locally for a weekend. We loved it. What was amazing about this particular unit was the RV style vent fan that was in it. It was a warm humid weekend and it drew so much air through the door screens that the inside felt like it was air conditioned. We finally got our Diamond last December and I was wondering if anyone has installed something like this on their trailer? I am really reticent about drilling and cutting to make this happen but it made sleeping that weekend just awesome. Just curious if anyone else has installed one, or what alternatives you've played around with.

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9 Comments

Richard Ludvigh

Aug 09, 2022

Fantastic fans are just fine, however I have decided not to cut a hole in my roof as I have no idea where beams are. (it is better to plan for this since beginning).

However I am planning on installing a simple side vent https://www.etrailer.com/RV-Vents-and-Fans/Redline/HMAV2-AVT2.html

I will put a fan from the inside with custom speed controller, for the size of the trailer I believe this should suffice :D

lrdchaos66

Aug 10, 2022

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Would very much like to see the steps you take in installing this, including the fan. This summer has been very warm and humid. My wife and I have had no interest going out all all this year because of it. If your vent/fan combo works, I will give it a try myself.

lrdchaos66

Sep 04

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Regretfully, no. My wife has had health issues this year that have prevented us from going camping so my thoughts have gone on the back burner. Because we've had such a brutally hot and humid summer, I really need to do a bit more thinking about this. With all due respect to the beloved builder, we need something that will pull some air. Most likely, I will go with the side mounted fan that Richard suggested.

Forrest Kuhn

Jul 16, 2022

I would like to have some kind of rv vent but like you I have the diamond top but not sure how to install one. I thought about another window but that was no possible. Hope someone has done one with adding a vent.

Sharon Ledwell

Jul 16, 2022

See my Max Fan post.

Forrest Kuhn

Jul 26, 2022

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Can you send me some pictures and did you have to move the solar panel. How did you wire it. Did you remove the interior light and use that wiring for the ven.

Forrest Kuhn

Jun 11, 2021

Might check with Steve before cutting into your teardro.

lrdchaos66

Jun 11, 2021

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Yea, unfortunately my Forum Fu was poor and I stumbled across the post he made a while about about "Fantastic Fans". I'll be honest, I wasn't looking forward to doing something like that, but was more curious what others may have done.

Richard Ludvigh

Sep 16, 2022

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Literally 99.99% builds have roof fans, some fantastic, a lot of them have MaxxAir. Steve unfortunatelly picked the 3 posts about leaks, probably poor instalation, but I never seen anyone complain about them.

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