etrailer | In-Depth Review of the MaxxShade Plus Retractable RV Roof Vent Shade w/LEDs

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Jake: Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we're going to be taking a look at and I'm going to show you how to install the Maxxair MaxxShade. What this shade is designed to do is it's designed to go in a preexisting vent opening that you have. What it does is it's both going to give you lights, additional lighting if you have chosen the option with the LED strips in it, which I highly recommend, and it's also going to be able to block out any of that unnecessary heat or light from the sun by closing the shade. You can close the shade, keep some of that hot air out and get some fresh air in through the vents on the side, and it's going to help to get rid of the stagnant air on the inside of your camper. With the LEDs on the bottom of our MaxxShade, they are going to be needing 12-volt power, which this is designed to work with a Maxxair fan that already has 12-volt power going to it.It's also designed to work with the fan when it's in use, so if you close your vent, you can still have your fan running.

Show you a quick example. It's going to help to get rid of some of that stagnant air on the inside of your camper. You can close that off. The opposite side of this shade is going to have a reflective backing to it so it's going to help to eliminate some of that heat, and you can feel the air being pulled up through these two side vents. The shade itself is going to be retractable, so it's going to be spring loaded so when not in use it's going to stay in the open position, but when it is in use, it's going to have these two prongs so when you go to close it, it is designed to slam shut.

I would recommend lifting up a little bit on it in order to make it a little bit easier to open. Put a little pressure on it, and it'll hold right in place. You simply pop it loose to open it up.The MaxxShade itself is going to be white in color. It's going to be a durable plastic so it's going to hold up well over time. Now, one of my favorite things about this shade, and I did not realize this until I had actually flipped the lights on and off.

I love the accent lighting that this is going to give your camper, so if you're getting ready to go to bed but you still like to have a little bit of light out in your living room or in your dining room like we are in here, this is going to be the perfect amount of light to get around, to be able to see, but not too much to where you can't sleep.Now that we've gone over some of those cool features about the MaxxShade, let's go ahead and show you how to get it installed. Now to start your installation, you're going to start by removing your garnish ring on the inside of your vent. Now, your directions are going to say to remove the four screws and to discard them. I'm going to do it a little bit different. What they're planning on is they're planning on the new garnish to hold this old one up.

We're going to go ahead and replace these screws after we drill a hole so that the new ring doesn't have to hold up the old one. Now we can go ahead and pull our ring down. Be very careful, especially if you're doing this on an older camper, not to break the ring. Now we need to drill a small hole towards the corner of one of the corners on your garnish ring, and this is going to be for our wires to go through, to power our LED light.Now because we're going to be reusing the screws that came out of our garnish ring, what we're going to do is we're going to take our new garnish ring that comes with our MaxxShade. Going to set it on top, make sure it's nice and even, and you're going to have two different options of holes on the outside or on the inside of your ring to help keep this garnish ring in place. We're going to be using the inside four holes to keep our shade up and in place, so we'll just take a marker, mark our holes so we can pre-drill some holes for our screws to go through.Now that we've got all of our holes drilled in our garnish ring, what you're going to do next is you're going to take this hole that you drilled in the side of your garnish ring, and then what we're going to do is we're going to take the new garnish ring and put it on the bottom of it, and then we can take our actual shade itself, feed the two wires through this hole, and then wire it up to our power and our ground that's already in place for our fan. So we'll go ahead and do that. It's a good idea to get an extra set of hands. We'll do that, and then we'll come back