Bed Light/Fan repair

[2 in a Roo]

Originally Posted by bikendan

That's crazy.
Ours are still like new, after almost 11 years.
None of the clips ever broke.

Yup, 8 years and we are now on our second Roo, no problems.

[2 in a Roo]

Originally Posted by Bacchus

... it's too bad Forest River did not use some of the newer, better plastic on these clips or better yet used metal.

Forest River assembles trailers. They have a supplier that make these fans.

[Maman325]

One of ours broke in first six months. And I thought I was being pretty careful...

[Jonesclarinet]

Lehigh 13201 Grip Clip Organizer, Silver, Medium https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DH4NK..._vOdvzbZ1MEMGD

[Roo-minator]

Originally Posted by Jonesclarinet

Lehigh 13201 Grip Clip Organizer, Silver, Medium https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DH4NK..._vOdvzbZ1MEMGD

Have you bought these and used them? If so did they work well?

[Jonesclarinet]

I have used the small for my outdoor table mod, and I have a medium in use as a broom holder in the Roo. The medium would be just the right size for the bunk fan, but my plastic ones haven't broken... yet. I have extras in my toolkit [emoji53]

[JeepGuy]

the clips on mine haven't broke yet but ive only had them out once, the fan sounds like what I imagine a freight train delivering a load if tornados sounds like so there pretty much unuseable for me, I like a little white noise when sleeping ,not a circlular saw running in my bunk

[cheeseheadjim]

Originally Posted by JeepGuy

the clips on mine haven't broke yet but ive only had them out once, the fan sounds like what I imagine a freight train delivering a load if tornados sounds like so there pretty much unuseable for me, I like a little white noise when sleeping ,not a circlular saw running in my bunk

Hey Jeepguy

That is a very colorful description of the bunk end fans. I laughed out loud when I read it.

We switched over to an endless breeze fan and it is much quieter now. I has to wire up a 12v plug for the endless breeze first.

Jim S

[Finster]

Originally Posted by JeepGuy

the clips on mine haven't broke yet but ive only had them out once, the fan sounds like what I imagine a freight train delivering a load if tornados sounds like so there pretty much unuseable for me, I like a little white noise when sleeping ,not a circlular saw running in my bunk

I laughed at that too. Those things are extremely loud considering they don't move all that much air. We use ours occasionally, but just for the bunk light when reading in bed. If reading on our phone or tablet then we don't use them at all. Our clips have never broke on the bunk fans but they mostly sit in a drawer. I did drop one a week after picking the camper up from the dealer. I cracked the lens on the light, but it still works.We do have a fan, but its cheap desk fan that plugs in to the 120V outlet similar to this;

The fan is much, much quieter and moves a lot more air.

[HotelcamperRuss]

Our broke the first time cheap plastic.on the first trip Started off with 2 on each fan light now two broken

[ROMAC2]

I bought metal clips and replaced the broken plastic clips. Actually works much better.

[owlandfox]

Originally Posted by JeepGuy

the clips on mine haven't broke yet but ive only had them out once, the fan sounds like what I imagine a freight train delivering a load if tornados sounds like so there pretty much unuseable for me, I like a little white noise when sleeping ,not a circlular saw running in my bunk

I just read this to my wife and I thought she'd pass out she was laughing so hard!

Our old popup, I purchased new ones, with metal clips and they worked fine. I'll take the recommendation to just go to a small circular fan and 120V.

Best Regards!

[duck_eater]

We had the same problem with the light clips on our Roo. After looking around I found some rubber clips on Amazon. These are like you would use on a boat to hold a pole, etc. They don't break, hold well and don't scratch. Now how to quiet the fan down.