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Old 01-24-2020, 06:07 PM   #1
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Range hood for 2019-2020 Thor ACE

Hi Folks,
We just picked up a used 2019 30.3. We almost didn't notice (not really), these no longer ship with a range hood/vent with fan and light.

Huh?

Salesman said they decided to put that money toward a 'fantastic fan' in one of the existing vent holes. 'ok, if you say so'

My wife likes to cook and makes stuff that creates steam and smoke. Not ideal for cooking with no range hood.

I am going to install an aftermarket hood.
Anyone else done this? What hood did you pick? Any particular reason?
Anyone know what brand the 20xx-2018 Thor ACE's used?
Thanks in advance.

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Old 01-24-2020, 10:26 PM   #2
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Range hood for 2019-2020 Thor ACE

No hood at all certainly is interesting. My last coach (SOB) had a hood but it was not vented to the outside so it didn’t really do much good. That coach did have a powered roof vent right above the person doing the cooking and it WAS very effective. If yours is near the stove you might give it a try before you go to all the trouble and expense of adding a hood. Especially a vented hood that would require cutting a hole in the sidewall. Plus the vent flapper is notoriously noisy. I think they usually use Hengs hoods. Good luck and enjoy your new machine!
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Old 01-25-2020, 12:49 AM   #3
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Ventline is the brand that Thor used in pre-2018 units.

Ventline Range Hood

Not sure about venting parts thru the side wall.
But you can always try Thor factory or:

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Old 01-25-2020, 01:55 AM   #4
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Amazon thru wall vent hood 12 volt. Any brand.
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Old 05-16-2020, 06:41 PM   #5
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As the OP, I thought I should follow up on my progress.

I fell into pretty hard analysis paralysis.

The thought of cutting into the outside of the coach freaked me out.
It is easy to hide mistakes on the inside and outside of your house, and even the inside of the coach, but the outside freaked me out.

I finally finished.

I noticed in some pictures from the 2018 models, it appears that THOR put an extension on the back of the hood to allow the front to align with the front of the cabinet.
I made a larger extension to get it out a bit further.
I also went through a lot of different external vents trying to find one I really liked.
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Thanks for the help on this project!
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Old 05-16-2020, 07:04 PM   #6
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Very nicely done! Congratulations. Mine has a factory outside vent that rattles incessantly. What brand or model did you choose?
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Old 05-16-2020, 07:21 PM   #7
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GordSanClemente:

You do great work.
Looks like the manufacturer did it (only better).
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Old 05-16-2020, 09:58 PM   #8
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I ended up buying a few different vent covers but liked this one the best.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254355142384

It was available from a few vendors, but the ebay site is the only one that had black in stock.

I selected it for these reasons...
1. Low profile, looked the most "modern". Others just looked cheap.
2. Air flow - The opening is actually quite large without sticking out real far.
They do this by having a big hole that tapers over a wide area.

Also - The unit didn't come looking like this picture. It was clean and well protected. (the one in the picture looks like the stored it in a cement mixer)

I went with the biggest ventline hood.

I ran into one issue I hadn’t anticipated. Apparently when THOR dropped the hood in the 2019 ACE, they made the MicroWave cabinet bigger, (Lower). I then ended up with the hood being past the top edge of the range backsplash. This makes it so that the extension I crafted out sheet metal does not sit flatly against the wall. Still not sure what I want to do with that.
The wife wants me to tear out the backsplash. She thinks it is ugly. I can’t imagine what kind of screwy glue they may have used to attach and what kind of destruction it will cause to remove
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Old 09-06-2020, 10:26 PM   #9
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makeshift vent

I also did not have a hood [vented or otherwise] in our 2020 Thor Daybreak Class C. We needed one for cooking also. There is a window across half the back of the range area. The distance from the window to the refrigerator cabinet wall was too narrow to put in a conventional vented hood like the original author did. I was also nervous about cutting into the exterior of the coach.
My solution was to take a piece of plexaglas/lexan, cut to slip into the screen slot of the window. I drilled/mounted an EBAY 4" [120cm] square computer cooling fan [ I could have chosen either AC or DC] so that it would exhaust to the outside. I chose a 12V fan with a small 12V rechargable powerpack* for power. I put a piece of foam filter material across the interior side of the fan.
It works very effectively.
[Pictures can be provided, if there is interest, next time I take the camper out of storage.]
TOTAL COST: Fan- $6 Plexi- $4, Battery pack- $4.50, Batteries & charger- $15, Filter- free from stuff I had [could use nylon screen ].
* Alkaline batteries [8-AAs] would have been much cheaper.
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