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Dometic/Fantastic Fan customer service has been completely useless in resolving this problem. They have told me to buy two different parts--one is the three speed switch which is working fine and the other is a bulb thermometer switch which was never used on this model of Fantastic Fan. This...

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Got it sorted. The potentiometer/thermostat/relay connects the white (ground?) wire coming into the circuit board with the green (ground) wire coming out of the circuit board heading to the motor via the direction switch. If you tap into those two wires and install a toggle switch you can turn...

I now think that the potentiometer activates a relay and it’s the relay that I can hear clicking and not making a good connection

I now think it’s a potentiometer functioning as a thermostat

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I wondered that myself. It definitely activated the fan according to temperature. How would it do that it if it wasn’t some kind of thermostat?

I’m pretty sure it’s an OE safety lock out. Rather than having it on the clutch pedal it’s on the transmission

Odd. My starter won’t do anything if the truck is in gear.

Fantastic fan/ electrical question: our fantastic fan is controlled by a rotating thermostatic switch attached to the rain sensor circuit board with three pins. The connection in that switch is intermittent. Anybody know how I could tap into those three pins, bypassing the thermostat with an...

Curious as to how you get the truck to start in either low or reverse. My 99FG will only start in neutral. I’ve assumed that is a safety feature.

Somebody's daughter had an 85 Mercedes 300SD with the 617 diesel and an EGR valve. In CO the emissions test is not a chemical analysis but an opacity test for blackness of smoke. The vehicle would fail the opacity test but this somebody discovered that if he put a BB in the vacuum tube which...

Great info. I'll be curious if the 2KW is adequate sub-freezing. Most people seem to be buying the 5KW and running them on low.

Yes, that is normal. Somewhere Camco has a picture like that to show the normal glow. I think they say it is 40% of the catalyst which glows

There are lots of Facebook pages dedicated to Chinese diesel heaters. They do seem effective. They come in 2kw, 5kw, 8kw versions. The downside is their electric consumption. It seems slightly less than a typical propane forced air furnace. If you have a diesel truck so don’t need to carry fuel...

I like the metal roof I’d be tempted to use sheet aluminum overlapped on the edges and sealed with Eternabond tape.

Yes. our Northstar had an arch originally too. Not anymore. It had been damaged before our purchase. I don’t know the height of the sides off the top on my head. I have a thread on here with pictures of the repair of my front side. The sides and the flat piece of wood around the top do not touch...

I modified the utility body to accept the bathroom bump out on our Northstar TS 1000. Pretty simple modification. Cut a section out of the back right compartment, flipped it upside down and welded it back in.

Most sides are 1", 2 1/2" pieces of plywood glued together. I'm not a fan of that. I used treated deck boards, cut a little narrower at the bottom on a table saw so it would fit in the bottom aluminum extrusion. That plywood ends up having a raw edge sitting in the extrusion and it wicks up...

Why a flat bed instead of a utility body?