Step one. Bought the van.
Hello Everybody, First post. I camp a lot in tents but after spending three days straight in a tent in the rain at Dolly Sods I swore I'd make a change. Here it is. Bought it Wednesday. Dro...
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Right now in my Van, I have 6 muffin fans running. One in the fridge, one behind it, 2 on the roof exhausting, one in the laptop, and one blowing cool air at the laptop's intake. That is about half of them.
Condensation on the roof is not only an uncomfortable problem, it is bad for the van. It drips down inside the top rails and begins the rust rot.
Your body is the moisture source, and it collects anywhere cold like a cold beer can will on a hot humid day.
Making the inside temperature the same as the outside temperature will reduce this. Having a fan to exhaust your hot breath will help as well.
I have some intake fans in one of my rear conversion van windows. 3 120 mm fans. mounted in 1/4 inch thick plywood. The one on the end is a silverstone fm121 adjustable speed fan. It is rated at 33 to 110 cfmand draws less than 0.1 volts to just over 0.4 amps on high. The 2 others are probably move around 130 cfm each, and draw about 0.65 amps each. With all three on, my van is a wind tunnel. Here's a photo.
Today is cool and drizzly so I have that window closed and those fans off. When it is blazing hot outside, it is either cooler inside my van, or the same temp as outside.
I glued 1/2 foam insulation from the home stores to my ceiling. and have made custom fit reflectix window shades for all the windows.
Condensation on the roof is not only an uncomfortable problem, it is bad for the van. It drips down inside the top rails and begins the rust rot.
Your body is the moisture source, and it collects anywhere cold like a cold beer can will on a hot humid day.
Making the inside temperature the same as the outside temperature will reduce this. Having a fan to exhaust your hot breath will help as well.
I have some intake fans in one of my rear conversion van windows. 3 120 mm fans. mounted in 1/4 inch thick plywood. The one on the end is a silverstone fm121 adjustable speed fan. It is rated at 33 to 110 cfmand draws less than 0.1 volts to just over 0.4 amps on high. The 2 others are probably move around 130 cfm each, and draw about 0.65 amps each. With all three on, my van is a wind tunnel. Here's a photo.
Today is cool and drizzly so I have that window closed and those fans off. When it is blazing hot outside, it is either cooler inside my van, or the same temp as outside.
I glued 1/2 foam insulation from the home stores to my ceiling. and have made custom fit reflectix window shades for all the windows.
