sleeping with generator on

If your rig is well maintained with a functioning Co2 detector, you should be fine. We have been sleeping with the generator running for years. No problems. They are designed to do this. The recommendation for the Genturi is concerning to me. Your generator manufacturers do not recommend using this add on device. In fact, I read a few years back in a Motorhome magazine, that these could potentially put you at greater risk of Co2 poisoning, as these expel gas above the rig where your AC's could recirculate the air into the rig. If these were safer to use, the industry would have added them years ago.

dougrainer wrote:
Lets see. Have any of the posters that state to NOT run the Genset ever been to a Nascar race?? There are hundreds if not thousands of gensets running all around you(including yours) and if the exhaust could easily get inside your RV, we would read about scores of CO deaths every week at Nascar races. If you are running the Genset, odds are you are running it to run the Roof AC units. With those running you have a slight higher air pressure INSIDE the RV and you will be pushing OUT air and that will not allow CO to migrate inside. Doug

THere have been deaths at Nascar tracks caused by CO poising from generators.
The only foolproof method is with a Genturi. Without a Genturi you are taking a gamble. THe risk factor may not be great but it is for real.

I've stated before, I start my generator before I leave my driveway for Oshkosh. I don't shut it down til I'm parked in the campground & plugged in. We stop somewhere on the road, and sleep for the night on the way up.
Matter of fact, we're leaving Friday for the big event.:)

Lets see. Have any of the posters that state to NOT run the Genset ever been to a Nascar race?? There are hundreds if not thousands of gensets running all around you(including yours) and if the exhaust could easily get inside your RV, we would read about scores of CO deaths every week at Nascar races. If you are running the Genset, odds are you are running it to run the Roof AC units. With those running you have a slight higher air pressure INSIDE the RV and you will be pushing OUT air and that will not allow CO to migrate inside. Doug

I will not run mine while sleeping. If it is that hot at night, I will plan accordingly and be in a campground with an electrical hook up. If you must run while sleeping, please use a Gen-Turi generator extension.

True story time

In this RV, when new, if I ran the generator more than 2 hours parked, the CO detector (As well it should) got downright annoying (Did it's job)

So I installed a Gen-Turi Generator exhaust extension.

Result. have done a few 25 hour runs, NO beep, No problems Slept well.. Woke up in the morning and am still here to type this.

Far too many have slept with a generator running, but without any attention to where the exhaust was going.. and are still sleeping... that long, dark, sleep of death.

bgum wrote:
That is what they are for.

Provided the proper cautions are taken. Which is why it states in the manual NOT to run the generator while you are sleeping without the proper equipment to vent exhaust gasses away from the rv.

If the wind is not blowing away from the MH and it's just for a night, I put a metal 90 degree sweep on the exhaust. If it's several days with neighbors I put my homemade $17 Gen-T on.

2 thoughts here. 1. Why? 2. Any neighbors close by?

In my years of camping I heard about at least 3 deaths due generator fumes entering RV.
That was with portable generators where inexperienced campers directed wrong way, but even build-in generators have exhaust directed away, observe wind direction, or best yet make the mentioned venturi extensions and CO detector for sure.
Still don't depend on CO detector as it is not only CO in the fumes that can kill you.