sleeping with generator on
I have a gas class a and I dry camp a lot but never sleep with gen. on at night has any body slept with gen running all night
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We've done it a few times when we 'driveway camped' at the in-law's place overnight a few times and it was hot enough that air conditioning was a must. It works just fine, and is not a problem. Kids actually love it, say that the constant hum of the generator helps them sleep. Generator runs all night, and we're all just fine the next morning. CO detector never went off, and we don't use a Genturi, either (although I definitely would if we did this regularly or did it in an area with lots of other people around).
I too was leary at first, concerned about CO getting in. However, it really is not an issue as long as you have a good CO detector. We don't use a Genturi, but that would no doubt reduces the risk even more, and is definitely a really good idea if you do this regularly.
I see that like always when questions/issues like this come up, we have plenty of folks that swear its sooo dangerous, nobody should EVER do it, just 'cause they chose not to or have never been in a situation where they would need to. :R
As to the 'legal CYA' warnings provided about sleeping with a generator on: LOL, if we followed ALL the little CYA warnings like that, pretty soon we'd all be living in caves, haha. :)
As to all those 'supposed' deaths due to CO poisoning: I wonder how many of them were due to folks camping in tents too close to where generators were running? Or, like already said, how many were due to someone using a heater inside that they really should not have? I'm betting very, very, few...Probably NONE of those deaths were cases of someone inside an RV inhaling too much CO from their own generator. That just doesn't happen except in very rare cases, and even then is totally avoidable if you have a good, properly installed, working CO detector (which I believe all MHs with a generator come with from the factory, and have for several years).
I too was leary at first, concerned about CO getting in. However, it really is not an issue as long as you have a good CO detector. We don't use a Genturi, but that would no doubt reduces the risk even more, and is definitely a really good idea if you do this regularly.
I see that like always when questions/issues like this come up, we have plenty of folks that swear its sooo dangerous, nobody should EVER do it, just 'cause they chose not to or have never been in a situation where they would need to. :R
As to the 'legal CYA' warnings provided about sleeping with a generator on: LOL, if we followed ALL the little CYA warnings like that, pretty soon we'd all be living in caves, haha. :)
As to all those 'supposed' deaths due to CO poisoning: I wonder how many of them were due to folks camping in tents too close to where generators were running? Or, like already said, how many were due to someone using a heater inside that they really should not have? I'm betting very, very, few...Probably NONE of those deaths were cases of someone inside an RV inhaling too much CO from their own generator. That just doesn't happen except in very rare cases, and even then is totally avoidable if you have a good, properly installed, working CO detector (which I believe all MHs with a generator come with from the factory, and have for several years).
