00-07000K MaxxFan Deluxe with Remote - White

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.

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