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SlowBro
Explorer III
Feb 27, 2015

Ok to run a generator at night if no one is around?

Are there safety issues for running a genny at night, outside of CO concerns? In another thread, a member wrote this: 2oldman wrote: On a windless night, your area will be blanketed in CO. I've k...
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pnichols
Explorer II
Mar 01, 2015
Sooo ... a contractor generator was LOUDER than the engines at a NASCAR race??

At the most recent races I attended, the combined straight-pipe un-muffled full race V8 sound from all the cars (it was pure vintage Cobra races in CA) was head and shoulders above any noise on Earth I had ever heard. I never could have heard any generator - contractor or otherwise - at that track.

Are NASCAR races becoming something less than they used to be. :h and :B

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