Any of you guys have the Endless Breeze 12VDC Fan?

We really like our O2cool 5" battery powered fansfans. They're very quiet and seem to run forever on 2 D cells. We each have one so we don't have to share. A relief on those hot summer nights.

Norm

rk911 wrote:
I 'spose we could run the fan off 12vdc direct but that would limit where we could place the fan.

A valid point BUT your camper does have 12 vdc throughout which can easily be accessed from any one of the many 12 volt lighting fixtures. In my case I already have 12 vdc available right where I park the Endless Breeze so I always run it directly even when we have shore power available. In order to avoid the noise that many of us have observed the Endless Breeze makes I can instead run a 120 vac $10 WallyWorld fan that's dead quiet using a 12 vdc > 120 vac inverter plugged into that same 12 vdc feed. The only catch being most of these 120 vac fans will squeal when fed with modified sine wave, ergo the reason I'm keeping an eye out for an inexpensive, used pure sine wave inverter. As has been said, to his / her own. :)

SoundGuy wrote:

rk911 wrote:
I'm not the OP but we bought the Endless Breeze cuz we can use it on 120VAC with the adapter when we're hooked up and on 12VDC when not. why carry two fans when one will do both? :h

Simple ... the Endless Breeze costs many times more than a simple $10 120 vac fan from WallyWorld AND we usually do run more than one fan in order to have sufficient air movement in multiple areas of the trailer. The question for you is - why would you bother with the 120 vac > 12 vdc adapter when your trailer already can supply the necessary 12 vdc to run the Endless Breeze directly? :h And FWIW, an inexpensive 120 vac fan will cover both situations if you have a suitable 12 vdc > 120 vac power supply to run it those times you're dry camping and don't have shore power available.

we don't need more than one fan to adequately move air in our '35 class A. I 'spose we could run the fan off 12vdc direct but that would limit where we could place the fan. why carry another inverter? we plug in the breeze's inverter into the outlet we most often use and simply plug in the fan whenever we need it. no need to rummage around looking for the inverter. and...Fantastic Fan products are made right here in the USA...likely not so for the $10 Wally World fans. we try to buy USA mfg products whenever possible. to each their own.

rk911 wrote:
I'm not the OP but we bought the Endless Breeze cuz we can use it on 120VAC with the adapter when we're hooked up and on 12VDC when not. why carry two fans when one will do both? :h

Simple ... the Endless Breeze costs many times more than a simple $10 120 vac fan from WallyWorld AND we usually do run more than one fan in order to have sufficient air movement in multiple areas of the trailer. The question for you is - why would you bother with the 120 vac > 12 vdc adapter when your trailer already can supply the necessary 12 vdc to run the Endless Breeze directly? :h And FWIW, an inexpensive 120 vac fan will cover both situations if you have a suitable 12 vdc > 120 vac power supply to run it those times you're dry camping and don't have shore power available.

I dry camp once and awhile but, not too often. I bought a 12 volt clip on fan from the automotive parts store. It was cheap and it swivels back and forth as it runs. I don't know how much power it consumes but, it moves a lot of air. Too much really, it is noisy.

SoundGuy wrote:

marc515 wrote:
There's a converter/inverter you can buy from Fantastic Fan, that will allow the fan to run on 120VAC, but it costs!

I must be missing something here ... the whole point in owning a 12 vdc fan is to run it from 12 vdc but if you've got 120 vac why would you even bother using the Endless Breeze when a $10 120vac fan from WallyWorld will do just as well? :h

I'm not the OP but we bought the Endless Breeze cuz we can use it on 120VAC with the adapter when we're hooked up and on 12VDC when not. why carry two fans when one will do both? :h

marc515 wrote:
I'm thinking about picking up an Endless Breeze 12VDC portable fan; it's made by Fantastic Fan, so it should be good.

It's a little more costly than a small 120VAC fan, but the blade looks like it can really push some air, and it can be used when boon docking.

Does it push as much air as a 120VDC fan?

Insight appreciated.

Thank you

we have one and it pushes a ton of air every bit as good as a straight 12oVAC fan. fyi...we have a 120VAC/12VDC adapter. don't recall if that came with the fan or if we bought it separately. but we've run the fan with that adapter as well as straight from 12VDC...same results. you'll enjoy it.

We have one and we use it almost every trip. I also set it in a window if there is cooler air to bring in and it works great! It has extensions that you can hook it onto the window ledge (slide up windows)
Quiet and really moves the air, even on low.
Some cost to it, but in IMHO, well worth it.

We find the Endless Breeze to be a superb piece of RV gear. I can understand why it costs more than other 12 volt fans ... you get what you pay for with it.

It moves an extreme amount of air versus the battery power it's consuming, which makes it great for drycamping in warm temperatures when the air conditioning is not quite required.

I made a special extension cord for it so we could use it outside by plugging it into our entertainment center's 12 volt receptacle. Outside we use it for keeping cool when sitting under the awning on warm windless days and for use on an outside dining table to keep the flies away.

This website shows how to make a special mount for it for the ultimate in convenient comfort inside the RV:

http://www.andybaird.com/travels/gertie/fans.htm

I bought an o2cool at wal mart, runs off of C batteries or you can buy an adapter for 12v from 120AC, I already had an adapter that works, also had the 12v power cord. Fan works great and moved plenty of air!