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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Effy wrote:
...I do know this, when I run my genset and I am sitting still, I smell exhaust.
If thats the case, Effy, then IMO your Motorhome has a problem that needs to be addressed. You should NOT smell your generator exhaust when standing still. If that was the case, you couldn't even stop at a rest stop for a while and have lunch in your RV with the generator running to keep it cool with A/C. That is something we do all the time and really like to do. 'Tis one of the really cool things about traveling in a Motorhome. My generator is directly underneath the living room slideout, and I can honestly say we have never smelled generator exhaust inside, even when parked for a while and sitting at the dinette which is right over the generator.
...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.
...As one that had a CO detector go off a few times in the middle of the night (totally unrelated to generator exhaust), I can PROMISE you, if yours goes off, I don't care how soundly you are sleeping, it will wake you up instantly and make you VERY conscious of the issue! Those things will wake the dead when they go off, hahaha!
You do make a good point about how confident we can be in the low quality stuff they put in RVs, though. However, I will tell you, as one that has had more than one CO detector go bad, when they go bad, they don't typically fail to go off when/if CO is present. More often than not, they start going off erroneously when the air is just fine.
....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?
Hehehehe, well, you are including yourself in what you fail to see there, as you, too, are continuing the argument. You've posted, what, 2, 3 times so far in this thread? :)
Will
