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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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mrw8i
Explorer
Mar 03, 2015
pnichols wrote:
SuzzeeeQ2012 wrote:
I like quiet at 3 am and if I can hear a hummmm it drives me nuts


Wait till tinnitus sets in ... you may always hear the same sound at 3 am, then. Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be Honda tinnitus instead of contractor tinnitus. ;)

(Both the DW and myself have it now.)

And tinnitus gets louder with ear plugs, because you no longer have the white noise of the outside world masking it.

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