MAXXAIR Maxxfan Deluxe Vent, Fan and Vent Cover All in One - Powerful 10-Speed Reversible Fan with Thermostat, Built-in Rain Cover, Remote Control, Intake & Exhaust Fan, Smoke (00-07500K)

Top brand. All the features.Can’t say whether it will last or not, but boy what an improvement over the original Fantastic Fan in my 2003 Casita! So quiet. I can hear myself!The old one had 21 rivets. Only the corner holes lined up. Drilled 12 new holes.Had to use stainless bolts and Nyla nuts with fender washers. Even so, it went in like a charm. Excellent 3 piece design makes install easy.Used a double thickness of waterproofing tape plus a good edge of white Lexel Stainless phillips heads look great.Interior trim is a little scary because it’s cut to size. Really no problem with a dremmel. Measure twice. Held my trim in place with hd sticky backed Velcro. Looks great.Fan works like a charm. Nice remote—a little big and clunky. Probably so it won’t get lost. Automatic raising and lowering of the cover is cool and a little noisy. Don’t care about the noise. Love this feature.The fan itself is super quiet through about 60%. That’s moving a lot of air very quietly. I’m extremely pleased.

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.

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 have purchased and installed 3 of these. These fans are great. Can evac hot air quickly but also bring in cool outside air. Saves on AC unit use. Nice to set temperature before leaving camp for the day and come back to a fairly cool camper. Best fan on the market and well worth the price.

I bought the Maxxair over a competitors because it came highly reccomended and has the auto-function on as well. My only concern with this is that because the air basically has to do a 180 degree turn to exhaust, and I thought it might not flow as well.Installation was pretty straight forward, made easier by the fact I removed a non-fan vent and just used the old installation holes to mount it. I did re-drill holes in the Maxxair vent skirt to match, simply because I didn't want to drill another 20 holes into the aluminum frame since 24 were already there. All I did was make it match. Not a big issue. Wiring was easy, the only thing to remember is which wire is positive as they are black and white only, but handilly they pre-label the wires.Once installed, I cranked it up and was very impressed. It flows a LOT of air. It is rather loud at 100%, and would probably keep me awake at night (especially since it's right over the bed), but when I turned it down to 50% it was very reasonable. I know that with the RV all closed up, and the fan on high, I can feel it resist me opening the door due to the vacuum it creates inside. I left the RV closed up in the hot sun, and when I opened it all I had to do was open a front window, turn the fan on, and within minutes it was temperate inside. My worries about airflow were for nothing. The fan works, and works well.I also tested the fan at various speeds with an ammeter. With the fan exhausting air at 100% it draws almost 2 amps, which is quite a bit. Still, I have two deep cycle batteries, so that setting would easily last overnight. At 50% it was just under 600 milliamps. 30% about 200 milliamps, and at 10% only 60 ma. When I ran it with the air being blown into the RV, it used about 10% more power at the same settings. As I suspect most people will run it in exhaust mode, this is irrelevant. I figure I will run it between 30-50% most of the time as well, so the power it uses seems quite reasonable for what it does.The remote works well, and you can auto set it to turn on at what ever temperature you select. If you lose the remote, you can still operate the fan with the controls built in to it. The remote is IR however, so you have to have it within visual range of the fan to operate it.My only concern is that the fan and the skirt that goes into the square hole first are two seperate pieces. You put the skirt in from the top and screw it to the roof. The fan and hood assembly then 'sits' on top of that and gets secured with four bolts. It seems sturdy enough, but their is a little lip in the skirt that the fan fits over... Water will certainly get blown into that lip. There is no seemingly easy way for it to drain. Does it just stagnate there? Is it just supposed to evaporate and leave behind dirt? I'm not quite understanding the design, and looking at the pictures from the installation guide don't help. To be clear, water won't leak into your RV, but will just sit in that small lip for a while (see pic).I called the 800 number that came with the installation instructions to inquire about this, and after going through the phone tree was given another number to call. Upon calling that number, and going through the phone tree, I got a recording telling me to that "if you are a retail customer" to contact "a retail service center near you". I tried some other extensions for support, but never got through to anybody. So.. no support there. An easy fix is to seal it up with silicone, which is what I'm going to do. (see attached photo of that gap where water could get into.)This fan is expensive, and even with that weird lip around the upper skirt, if it holds up to the test of time it will have been worth it. Installing and learning how to operate it was pretty easy and so far I like it.

Upgraded to the max air. Easy to use. Easy to install. Definitely worth it