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Subject:Re: Link to 12v DC outhouse exhaust fan?
From:VW Doka
Date:Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:03:04 -0700

How about something like this:

http://tinyurl.com/3bg63b

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of neil
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:40 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Link to 12v DC outhouse exhaust fan?

Yah that was the application, though I can't recall if it was a solar
powered package.

I would imagine that in the case of the Mt. Greylock crappers, if no
battery backup for night use, the fan would run off of converted
methane gas....

insert humour

;^)

Oh trust me, the low brass player, to "go there".....

Neil.

On 6/15/07, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I know where you can find one; the compost toilets in
> the campground on Mt. Greylock in Massachusetts
> utilize them.  Solar powered, no less, though I don't
> recall if there was battery backup for nighttime use.
>
> Stephen
>
> --- neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > In my "travels" on the internet, I recall seeing a
> > site that was
> > selling fans used to vent gases from out-house
> > "toilets". Yes. Such a
> > nice thought.... ;)
> >
> > Can't find what I had seen though I have searched
> > under quite a few
> > search terms. If anyone even have an inkling as to
> > what I'm referring
> > to, and can point me that way, I'd muchly appreciate
> > it!
> >
> > The fan was desigined to fit into PVC tube, had low
> > current draw, yet
> > a fairly high CFM.
> >
> > The fan would be used for my idea of bringing in
> > outside air from
> > under van up and across cooling fins on Dometic
> > refer.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Neil.
> > --
> > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
> >
> > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> >
>
>
>
>
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--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil