Project Choose Your Own Adventure

[ScottyB]

how much heat that stuff generates?

Dutch oven

Solar fart fan

asking the important questions here.  well all i know is with all the ass ripping we'll be doing, i guess we're our own heating unit in the winter time?  everyone loves their own brand...

but yeah, ventilation is literally a requirement, because the doors shut so tight that you will absolutely suffocate in that small of a space in your sleep whether you smell like a pile of butt or not.

we've planned out our airflow early in the project.  each 32x26 door has a full window that has half a sliding pane over a screen in it for passive ventilation.  we'll be running a 3-speed 14x14 roof vent fan unit, and in the event of heavy rain where we'll have to shut the screen doors and roof vent, we'll also have a "pop vent" on each side near where our heads will lay to provide some amount of protected airflow.  The roof vent runs off the 12v battery system and is very low draw energy-wise...and most nights outside of the summer season, you don't even need the fan, you can just crack the cover open and let the hot farts out.  

doors (screen section is lower half):


roof vent.  there is a screen panel under the fan, so if you aren't running it you can still crack the cover and not have bugs get in:


pop vents, roughly 11x5.  you'll see these mounted vertically on the sides of delivery trucks sometimes as cowl vents.  these will be installed horizontally as a torrential rain vent so that you can crack them open with the cover deflecting rain off of the screened opening.  we'll be spending a lot of time in the appalachians, where storms come up fast in the summer so we needed some kind of protected vent solution.  they ratchet out to 3 or 4 different opening angles.