Wouldn’t be without ours on the continent, and whilst I haven’t done the sums, the solar panel seems to keep up with demand during the day which is when we tend to use ours. The other point was that this set up was at the time of purchase considerably cheaper than the endless breeze of which I have no experience. Pretty effective as an air mover, some noise as you would expect but not excessive. It was a simple job to join the 2 cables and thus allow ease of placement anywhere in the van, the only permanent live 12volt supply was near the door about half way along the van, but in the ceiling, so longer lead was essential. I simply bought a long lead with cigarette socket similar to this, It's that gateway hardware thats the issue haha, get a panel, controller and battery and you become hooked.It has 3 speeds and a timer, came with a short lead and crocodile clips as does the current version. This, along with a small inverter for CFL's or LED's makes for some great "gateway hardware" loads to set the imagination (and hopefully calculator) running. What you are paying for is a very nice motor, and not some pc power supply fan stuff. Like before, the tips of the blades are attached to a circular surround, which helps keep the noise to relatively quiet levels, unless you are in a hospital, or blasting away at full power. I'd have to look up the specs on CC's that have lighting control to see if they will handle 1-2A dc if you want that kind of control instead of just running direct from the battery.Ĭlear plastic vanes instead of white for this new one. Speaking of which, I just picked up a 2nd 12v Fantastic-Vent Endless Breeze fan, and unlike the RV vents they are famous for, which have about 1/2/3a draw, the box-fan conversion runs 1.18 / 1.62 / 2.59a on the 3 different speeds. Heh, yes I was assuming a battery was going to be used with the charge controller. You get your first panel and a fan or light, and before you know it, you have 2.5 kw on the roof, and 800ah battery banks. If you do go with a controller and battery though at least you can set up some LED lights in your garage. The best things are the simple things, remember "KISS" keep it simple stupid. X-4 for the Endless Breeze 12 volt fan Used one in my semi for many, many years, and it was still working when I retired They draw less than 2 amps per hour, so running them all night is not a problem And they do move a lot of air Rail Retired, and 'Always on Holiday' 1996 Monaco Windsor 38PB, 'Mona' 275 HP., 8. Those controllers do a basic mppt function in that if your panel voltage is higher, the controller can convert that higher voltage to more current, meaning you may be able to run more fans on the same panel. Or, just go with a step down converter like i posted, it will run your fans at the speed you want until the panel cant provide enough current, and then slowly ramp down as the sun goes down. Most slightly higher end PWM controllers have various load control options, like "on only when the sun is up" and "on only when its night" I would go to the local electronics store and get a small AGM 7ah 12 volt battery, and use the load control on the controller to enable the load only when the sun is up to prevent flattening the battery. I thought that a charge controller will not work properly without a battery attached to it?Most of them dont, as they need the battery to power up the converter itself, it doesn't power itself from the solar panels, as that voltage is all over the place and unreliable.
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