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Effy
Jul 14, 2016Explorer II
Like all things in RVing, there are a lot of factors that come into play. As I said before we don't do it but I have never needed to. I always schedule a place to plug in ahead of time. I don't go to races or anything like that. If I was travelling and had to overnight in a parking lot and it was 90 degrees out, I would strongly think about doing it. Many seem to do it just fine. AS far as the "CYA and if we paid attention to all the warnings" comments, well that's a straw man argument and really holds little in the way of persuasive logic with me. Usually if there is a warning, it's the result of something that has happened that prompted them to add it. And despite the doom and gloom of some posters, breathing carbon monoxide whether it kills you or not, it's not really healthy. I can't imagine being in the infield of a hundred oil burning gensets running and enjoying the air. We run our gen while driving down the road. Issue mitigated obviously due to driving. I do know this, when I run my genset and I am sitting still, I smell exhaust. How fast it could fill the coach and be harmful - I don't know. I imagine the answer depends. How confident am I in my detector, about as confident as I am in the rest of the low quality stuff they put in Rv's. And I would be asleep and unable to consciously keep an eye (or nose) on the issue. Some obviously are more confident in their detectors than others. But with my son sleeping on the bunk, next to the slide which I know is not airtight and also immediately over the gen exhaust, me in the bedroom and the detector in the middle of the coach, I refuse to risk it. I am not advocating that anyone follow my example. This is just what I do - or don't do. Many use them and have no ill effects, well at least that are noticeable. OP asked for opinions and he got them. I still fail to see why folks are so passionate about these issues to the point of arguments. Do what you do and let others do what they do. Who cares if someone agrees with you or not?
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