NHW11 hacks

DRACO · Dec 23, 2015

Sorry to bring this old thread back but has anyone modified their blower motor or ducts on their Gen 1?

adric22 said: ↑

I have an idea for a hack. When I was replacing the battery in my NHW11 last week I noticed that the blower-motor for the battery air-flow was fairly large. This is the one that blows air out that little vent on the driver's side door. If I understand it correctly, this blower motor sucks air from the passenger area and blows it over the battery and out the side of the car. Which means if you could keep this fan blowing on a hot summer day, it should keep the inside of the vehicle cooler. It would work sort of like one of those vents you can place in a cracked window.

I have no idea how many amps this thing draws so I'm not sure if it could be powered by the vehicle or of you'd need to rig up some kind of solar panels to prevent it from draining the 12V battery.

You could install a switch on the dash using one of those unused knock-out plates to turn the thing on and off. You'd probably need some kind of relay so that when it is off it would return control to the regular power wires that power it.

Another possibility would be to carry a separate battery just for powering that fan. Since I'm about to be converting my NHW11 to a plug-in it wouldn't be that much more difficult to add an extra battery for that, which would be recharged when the car is plugged in.

I know it would be great to go to my car in the middle of July or August and have the temperature inside the car be roughly the same as the temperature outside.
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