0007000K MaxxFan Deluxe Fan with Remote and White Lid

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 own two. Both times it has replaced two fans. It keeps the entire motorhome or trailer cool.

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.

The fan was easy to install. Peel off the old caulking carefully and remove the old fan, install the new one per instructions, seal with self leveling dicor (I already had a bunch of tubes). I had power already from the old fan, so that was easy. I bought the wired wall control unit separately so I don't have to keep changing batteries in the wireless remote. I had to run an rj45 network cable through the wall - the port is right close to the edge so most standard network cables won't fit. I ended up using a home made bit of cable that uses a crimp connector as they're a bit lower profile and fitted nicely. You can also just buy the maxxair wire but it's a bit more expensive. We love the fan. Our old one was super noisy, we keep leaving the new one on accidentally because it's so quiet. The airflow is great and we've had it open in heavy rain storm and no water came in. I wouldn't normally leave it open in the rain, but just wanted to test it.All in all, would recommend and very happy to the extent that I'm considering cutting a new 14" square hole for another one in our living area.

Customer should know that if you love to wasted,, all most 400.00hundred bucks on this big piece of garbage,,,go right ahead, this fan is a big scam, my did ok for three months, after that, never work again,,I am still trying to figure out something with costumer service, by the way good luck with that,,sounds like they always busy to answer,,that only tells you there products sucks,or there just leases,!! do your research before baying this fan,,don’t make same mistake I did.!!

Got this 7 may and it has been a game changer, inside van is about 10° cooler than ambient temp, controler is a bit tricky to use and when open/closing it kinda noisy making stelth camping harder. Love the fan.