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(More customer reviews)First of all, if you are skeptical of the merits of installing an attic fan let me tell you that you such a unit will make a noticeable difference on the comfort levels of your home on warm and hot days. By keeping your attic cooler you prevent tramped attic heat from soaking down into your living spaces, making your house cooler as a result.
Now onto the review: this is a very powerful fan! I installed on a piece a plywood with a circular cutout to be sure that my gable vent was thoroughly sealed from air leakage. This little bit of extra work also made it easier to drag into position in my cramped attic and mount to the wall, as the plywood prevented the unit from settling in between joists in the attics unfinished floor.
It was a sunny day when I installed so the attic was heating up fast. Sweat was pouring off me. Once powered up, however, the rush of air felt chilly and it was only a matter of minutes until the attic temps dropped to the point that I felt like I was sitting outside with a nice breeze, not in a cramped, hot, dusty attic.
If you are faced with the option, get a unit with a thermostatic switch. You'd be surprised by how often you can forget about turning the unit on or off. The thermostatic switch takes the work out as it makes the unit come on at a specified temperature and switches it off once the attic is 10 degrees cooler than that temp. I highly suggest wiring for two switches: a master on/off switch and a thermostat override switch. It is more work, but it can give you fine control over operation. It also allows you to test the working of the unit if need be. You could even replace the override switch with a timer switch. That way you can set how long you want to the unit to run for, in case you easily forget about things like this unit running on override.
The only downside (and it is a minor one) is that I'm surprised about the noise level this unit produces. When the unit is on and you are on the floor below the gable where it is mounted there is no question of if the unit is on or off. I do not know how loud the realm of this style of attic fan is, but compared to a solar powered roof-mounted fan I've installed there is a big difference in noise produced. That being said, however, the noise level while noticeable is not obnoxious.
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