MAXXAIR Maxxfan Deluxe Vent, Fan and Vent Cover All in One - Powerful 4-Speed Reversible Fan with Thermostat, Built-in Rain Cover, Exhuast Air Only, Fits 14"" x14 Roof Openings, Smoke (00-06401K)

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.

We purchased the 06401K Maxxair DLX Vent to replace the rooftop RV Air Conditioner in our Lance Squire Lite truck camper, because we almost always boondock camp (no generator). This unit has no remote, is manual opening, and only exhausts air at 4 speeds....we went with the simple one. At the lowest speed, the fan noise was unnoticeable. At high speed, it was tolerably quiet. Installation is definitely a DIY project, as long as you're comfortable safely accessing the roof of your RV, and working with power tools and wiring. If you're removing a 115v AC unit as we did, be sure you're disconnected from all power sources before starting, and those units are heavy and awkward up on the roof....be safe. The entire fan assembly fit perfectly in the 14"x14" opening, which, from what I understand, is pretty much the standard size opening for RV roof vents and AC units. I cleaned up the old opening of all old sealant and dirt with rags and acetone (our roof is stainless steel sheet...other materials may not be compatible with strong solvent cleaners). We located12v power just a few inches away at a light fixture. The wiring to the fan motor is about 16ga, and about 18" long, so it was plenty sufficient to reach. I had to drill a small hole in the wood that framed the opening to fish the wires through, and easily retrieved them through the hole for the light fixture wires. The inner cosmetic trim ring will need to be cut down to adapt to the thickness of your roof. I just used a utility knife backed with a piece of wood and guided with a straight edge. The material was thin and soft to get through with a couple of passes. Other stuff you'll need to complete the project: Rags and cleaner/solvent to clean and prep the roof Butyl seal tape to place between the roof and the exterior flange Lap Sealant (one tube is plenty used generously) to seal the screws and exterior edge Some wire butt splices to crimp wire leads to the power source. Maybe some electrical tape to make things neat. Tools: A pry bar to gently release the old fixture from the roof, after removing fasteners. Scrapers for roof prep #2 Screwdriver (a drill/driver makes fastening into the roof much easier). Length of stiff wire or wire fishing tool, to pull fan wires to your power source Wire strippers/cutters/crimper I expect this to be the most useful upgrade we've done yet to the camper....it will allow some diffused light and ventilation where the unused AC unit did not. Doug & Heather ....on a beach somewhere!

Installed in a box van conversion. Low energy draw and quiet operation. 4 speeds and great air movement. Got the simple version, dont need a remote in a 10ft box. I would buy another if needed, no question. Sits in the air shadow of my roof air unit and I can drive with it full open. No water even fully open in Florida rainstorms. With solar on top I can let it run and never worry about it with 200Ah of Li. ion to draw on at night. Great unit.

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

I like 90% of this fan. I gave it a one star review so people would be drawn to this review and be aware of the remote issue prior to buying. Was easy to install. Took me about an hour. I have a new Travel Trailer, so the sealer was new and came off easily. The fan really sucks, but in a good way for a fan. At 100%, I can feel a slight breeze flowing the length of the TT. Haven't had rain, yet. So don't know how well its hood keeps out the rain. The only reason for the 1 star if the remote. My wife and I had visions of going to bed with the fan cooling the trailer until that time in the early morning when you realize its too cool and you have to get up to turn off the fan. Our "vision" was to just grab the remote and turn the fan off without getting up. Unfortunately, the remote is an IR remote. You have to have line of sight to the sensor. The sensor is on the fans control panel, which is about six inches higher than the ceiling line. So, you have to be standing DIRECTLY under the fan for the remote to work. Maxxair should be using a radio frequency remote. So, if the reason you are buying this model fan is the remote. Or, the remote factors in your decision, keep this in mind. You have to be standing directly under fan for remote to work.

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).

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.

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!