tomp said: ↑ This is great - thanks for sharing!! Can you provide info about recommended fans to use? Also, can you provide more info on where you accessed the defroster power, and what type of adapters are needed? Click to expand...

AFB0612EH fans. I spent hours on the Delta Fan site comparing different CFM/DBA combos. This fan seemed like a great compromise. I tried a 80mm tornado for testing which is the 2nd highest CFM consumer fan that is produced and it was just too loud. The 60mm Delta's are rated at 40cfm and 45dba. They are also rated at 13.8v which tells me they are probably safer for automotive use. If we remember our car audio 101, auto voltage can get as high as 14.2-4v and I have seen 14v coming from the Tesla 12v battery before. All that being said, those fans are 25mm thickness and I just ordered the 38mm Delta model that is found in the Dell Power Edge 2800 servers. They have about 40% more CFM but only 15 more DBA. I am doubtful the extra noise will be worth it but I'm still going to test. I don't think anything thicker will work regardless, and I'm slightly dubious this 38mm will fit as nicely as the 25mm with no modification. Again, this is mainly just to get that air circulating and possibly bringing it back by force from the main cabin. For stage 2, I'm using HP pro liant 40mm fans. They are rated at 11k rpm so they sound like a freaking jet engine taking off, but I'll just run then at 5v and everyone should be happy.



I had some Reddit users request the STL file for the bracket but I'm going to clean it up first and design in the plastic clip slots so they don't need cut by hand/Dremel.



I'll get pics of the 12v tap, but I just stole it from before the antenna doohickey on the passenger side of the hatch and used a spade terminal with heat shrink. All nice and clean until I decide to put a switch in. I triple checked the power taps with my voltmeter and anyone else should too. I had a bit of help from another source (AAA reliable if you know what I mean) that tried to unsuccessfully explain to me some relation of the defroster and the radio antenna. Basically there is a filter device, I guess, that keeps out interference from the defroster to the radio antenna so that they can use the same filaments or be in the same vicinity to each other. Anyone who can shed more light on this, please do. The module part numbers were no help and my source had helped as much as I would allow him to.