[C320-list] Has anyone replaced the 12v cabin fans? Any recommendations?

[Chris Nichols]

For peace and cool at night on anchor I made a pc cooling fan in-fill for the aft cabin cockpit port light with a bug screen cover. It runs off a Dollar tree usb backup charger which I find good for a whole night. I mounted the fan on a piece of 5mm white coroplast Cut to wedge firmly into the aperture of the port light.
Great thing is you can get super silent pc fans for a few bucks that really shift a volume of air. Most are set to run at 12v dc so could be run off the boat battery however they are more silent at the 5v output from a usb backup charger. I also have a dc/dc buck converter to get 12v from a usb charger which gives a handy ‘turbo ‘ mode.

It is set up to extract air from the cabin because the port light is up high so expelling hot air draws cool air from floor level into the aft cabin. 

Chris
(Amanda Rose #476)

> On 22 Jun 2020, at 21:52, B. Stumpp <bstumpp at comcast.net> wrote:
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> One of the fans we've been happy with Is the Endless Breeze box fan by
> Fantastic Vent.  
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> Larger than the small rotating fans but relatively quiet and pushes a lot of
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> https://www.endlessbreeze.com/
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> Bruce Stumpp
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> #647, Adventure
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> Middle River, MD  
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> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:10:23 -0400
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> From: Kevin Rooney <krooney at gmail.com <mailto:krooney at gmail.com> >
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> The noise volume is just too much from the current ones (original, I assume,
> but I'm the second owner).
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> If you can point me to something better that would be great.
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> Thanks!
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> Kevin
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> S/V Cecilia Ann, #211
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> Deale, MD
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> http://kevjot.com/boat/
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