Date:         Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:14:59 -0400
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From:         David Clarkson <dvdclarksn@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
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The PO of my 90 Westy installed a small oscillating fan just ahead of the overhead tray on the drivers side. This fan does a great job of moving the cool air from the rear to the front and cooling the back of my neck and the front passenger. You can usually find a good fan like that one in the link at any major truckstop if it is not available online or at your? FLAPS. This morning I checked my temp up front with everything running full blast with an outside temp of 78 F and 80% humidity it was 56 F up front. I am getting 34 F air at the vents on the 2 speed setting not in direct sun. Not to shabby after being sans a/c for about 10 years in this van.
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David Clarkson




-----Original Message-----
From: Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" &lt;camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM&gt;
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 10:03 am
Subject: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan

Maybe someday the air conditioning fairy will pay a visit and tell me?
that because I've been a good boy I'll have A/C in all my cars?
forevermore. More likely not, though.?
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I have a dash-mounted fan like this one:?
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&lt;http://www.overstock.com/Auto-Parts/All-Metal-12-volt-Dash-Fan/2672978/product.html&gt;?
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And while it makes a quite pleasant whirring sound, the air doesn't?
reach the driver. I've tinkered with the curvature of the blades but no?
matter what I do, the fan is best-suited for blowing stuff off the dash,?
not cooling the driver.?
?
Now, if you take off the chrome wire cage and remove the blade assembly,?
then the blade assembly from one of these pops right onto the shaft:?
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&lt;http://www.amazon.com/Volt-Fan-12V-Suction-Base/dp/B001449QRY&gt;?
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Better blade design, it moves more air, and the air reaches the driver.?
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Rather than stop there, though, I thought I'd ask the group if they have?
had good success with some other fan, or have come up with a good way to?
?break up that bubble of hot air that seems to surround the driver and?
passenger's faces and heads. (And no, I don't mean the hot air that I?
emit when I express opinions!). At highway speeds, the wind wings are?
far too noisy; and not enough air blows from the defrost vents or the?
dash vents to do much good.?
--?
Rocky J Squirrel?
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")?
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)?
Bend, OR?
KG6RCR?