We bought into the hype around Fantastic Fans last year and decided to install a temperature operated one in our bedroom and a normal exhaust one in our bathroom. They were very expensive. They guy who installed them charged the same price as the fan cost to install so all in all it was a very expensive addition.
To make a long story short, we were really disappointed in them. The original fan in our bath was so powerful that it would suck the screen into the fan blades. The new one pales in comparison and is just as noisy as the original. Replacing the original was a total waste of money. We were looking for quieter operation which we didn't get and the new one is less powerful.
In the bedroom the temperature operated one takes up so much of the area of the vent opening that when we don't have the fan running (which is most of the time since we boondock alot without electrical hook-ups) it really impedes the fresh air flow.
Well, they are in and we aren't taking them out because of all the money we spent putting them in. So this year we swapped the lids. The cheaper (but still very pricy) exhaust only fan in the bathroom has an opaque lid which we could really use in the bedroom to make it dark at night. The more expensive bedroom fan had the see-through lid which we could use in the bathroom to let light in for night time visits.
I wish we had never gotten them.
This is strange. Our rig came with a Fantastic fan from the factory and has several settings, it blows in or out and has 4 speeds from low to high and you can actually feel the air around you being pushed out the vent when it's on high, unless the lid isn't open far enough to allow for this much air-flow.
ReplyDeleteWhen you set it to blowing air into the rig it shoves volumes of air inside depending on how high you have the lid of the vent open.
I would check how high you have the vent lid and check again. I want to install one into our bathroom to replace that noisy little pile of junk that's in there now.
Good luck and congrats on the RV!
Erik
Hi Erik,
ReplyDeleteYou are right that if we had the lids all the way open then they would probably work great. But we have the rain covers over the fan openings so we can leave them open all the time for air circulation. This limits the lid opening height and causes the fantastic fans to be not worth much as an upgrade.
Michelle