roof vent fan question

davegillfishing

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ok so it has been a while since this was discussed..i think the turbo roof vent was a good choice for most..

do you still like it? wish you had gone with something else?

i need a hard sucker for the new rig and the one i got im not too happy with..you have to climb in the truck to open the plastic
cover them turn on the fan..i want to wire it to the ignition of the unit so the fan comes on when the unit if fired up..

whatcha got and how well does it work
 

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My fan lasted about three jobs before the heat killed it. Now it turns like those saloon ceiling fans in those old western movies! Next van will have a vented metal cab divider with a radiator cooling fan hanging from it sucking air from the cab windows and blowing it across the engine and blower and out the rear doors.
 

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Marty, when I talked with Prochem engineers, they advised to put a fan that will draw the air from the engine, not blow across it. Don't ask me why but they said that it does a better job at cooling the engine.
 

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Marty, when I talked with Prochem engineers, they advised to put a fan that will draw the air from the engine, not blow across it. Don't ask me why but they said that it does a better job at cooling the engine.

hot air rises.......then it pockets in the van...from that point your machine is sucking in hotter air and one thing leads to another...
a good roof vent will exhaust the hot air and keeps the air around the machine cooler..

you don't want to upset the air that is blowing across the machine....

kinda like removing the fan shroud off your car...it is designed to direct the air in a certain way to keep the engine cool...take it off and the air has no real direction and you engine will run a bit hotter......
 

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I was with you on the roof vent, but seriously, do you think Prochem or ANY of our manufacturers have made changes to these engines that make them anything more than law mower engines put inside a van? These engines were made to run outside where the wind blows where it wants to. I doubt you can upset the air flow. Putting a shroud on them didn't help matters any.
 

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I was with you on the roof vent, but seriously, do you think Prochem or ANY of our manufacturers have made changes to these engines that make them anything more than law mower engines put inside a van? These engines were made to run outside where the wind blows where it wants to. I doubt you can upset the air flow. Putting a shroud on them didn't help matters any.

I was using the shroud as an air flow example....try to keep up.......
 

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Does anybody have a roof vent fan that will keep the environment cool when working long jobs? Somewhere between 3-4 hours into job and the TM starts being affected. By hour 6 it is cookin and the TM is not happy
 

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Does anybody have a roof vent fan that will keep the environment cool when working long jobs? Somewhere between 3-4 hours into job and the TM starts being affected. By hour 6 it is cookin and the TM is not happy
No van style roof fan will work at that capacity.
 

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Does anybody have a roof vent fan that will keep the environment cool when working long jobs? Somewhere between 3-4 hours into job and the TM starts being affected. By hour 6 it is cookin and the TM is not happy
Can you tell us what setup you have and the average temp the weather is?
 
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Does anybody have a roof vent fan that will keep the environment cool when working long jobs? Somewhere between 3-4 hours into job and the TM starts being affected. By hour 6 it is cookin and the TM is not happy
Just mount a 2000cfm 12 volt radiator fan next to your machine blowing straight out the back door.
It will cool the van down a lot.
 
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Someone mentioned this a few years back. If I get a slide in, I’ll definitely do that.
But, I’ll have to buy a Matt to pull behind me to hold all my tools. TCS rigs aren’t compatible with multi-surface cleaning.
 
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Just a thought, I was told that steamactions fans are reversed, meaning it blows the hot air out of the van, instead of pulling the air in
 

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Does anybody have a roof vent fan that will keep the environment cool when working long jobs? Somewhere between 3-4 hours into job and the TM starts being affected. By hour 6 it is cookin and the TM is not happy
Better off keeping all of your doors open and running carpet fan with a long extension cord.
 

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A Judson is engineered to keep it cool and it does! Air cooled with doors open. No problem. Engineered like an airplane according to Les.
 

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