Running generator at night while sleeping?

If you simply must have the AC on at night, go to a CG that has power. If you are at a music festival or such where everyone, RVs & tent campers, is all mixed together at close quarters, suffer with the rest in the heat.

This is what a decent battery bank & an inverter is for. No, you can't have your AC but you can have a very tolerable night with the fantastic fan going all night & the inverter to power those small 110 loads.

When you do run the genny to recharge, & perhaps have some A/C, be a good neighbour & offer them a plug in for their cellphones. They can't complain about the noise if they are benefiting from it.

cjoseph wrote:

I have run it in a wide open campground with the nearest RV about 40 feet away. That was for 15 minutes to make the coffee. (WINK, WINK)

They make stove-top coffee perculators and they make excellent coffee. :) Also, buttering bread & toasting it in a frypan tastes terrific.

There was an incident resulting in some deaths a few years back where some tent campers set their tent up facing the exhaust of a stand alone generator and died. Wisconsin I think.

Hey Dutch, was that you in the tent site next to me last week? Have your lungs cleared out yet?

Get a grip. Didn't think it was necessary to say I wouldn't run it in close quarters.

I have run it in a wide open campground with the nearest RV about 40 feet away. That was for 15 minutes to make the coffee. Even checked to make sure my neighbors were up and around. Wouldn't want to wake them up by generator even though it wasn't quiet hours any more.

If I were to go to a tailgate or close camp (NASCAR) that generator use was practiced, I'd use a Genturie-type device. I never said they don't work. In fact, I said they were an improvement over a straight pipe. I don't think they are a fix for a leaky generator compartment or unsealed RV. I'm confident my MH is sealed rather well against exhaust fumes or I wouldn't use it.

I think my generator uses between 1/4 to 3/4 gallon per hour. Not sure where the intake is in the fuel tank, but its supposed to be at about 1/4th tank. That leaves about 60 gallons for generator use.

That's a lot of hours to smoke someone out!!! (WINK, WINK)

Big Katuna wrote:

SolidAxleDurango wrote:

Big Katuna wrote:
What product in this thread are you talking about?

Genturie is a good example.

Beg to differ. As I previously posted, we tailgate UF football games with hundreds of RV's parked bumper to bumper, side to side in rows.

The UF parking GODS mandate stacks, so by definition they are necessary. In between all those RV's are hundreds of people milling around drinking and cooking all day into the night. Without stacks, all that exhaust would be inhaled as it spewed out at knee level. The stacks assure it shoots up and floats away above head level as heat rises.

You don't have to leave if you don't have one, but you can't run your genset without it.

As far as the comments regarding voiding your warranty because Onan says "NO EXTENSIONS", that is total and complete BS. They say that to cover their arse for stupid people that connect 100' of hose in a garage scenario.

The Genturi does not create "ANY" back pressure. Thousands upon thousands of tailgaters have put tens of thousands of hours on their gensets with NO ill affects. I am one of them.

We have tailgated races where no stacks were required and the collateral exhaust fumes were dangerous, annoying and made your eyes water. My CO detector went off all day.

So if you don't tailgate or boondock, dont get one. Having slept hundreds of nights with mine running and hundreds of other RV's around me running theirs all night, I can tell you beyond any doubt, they work and are a great product.

X2 Thank you for saying this. I agree 100% Well, maybe it does increase back pressure very slightly. :h

Never 2 late wrote:
I read somewhere that every hour a gen runs equals a gallon of gasoline. If you run it for days at a time did you have an aux fuel source, or did it not use that much.
Thanks

A gas genets will use that much at full load; less at lighter loads. Most motorhomes have a 60 gallon or larger tank.

My Onan QD diesel genset uses more like a half gallon per hour and I have a 100 gallons of fuel.

SolidAxleDurango wrote:

Big Katuna wrote:
What product in this thread are you talking about?

Genturie is a good example.

Beg to differ. As I previously posted, we tailgate UF football games with hundreds of RV's parked bumper to bumper, side to side in rows.

The UF parking GODS mandate stacks, so by definition they are necessary. In between all those RV's are hundreds of people milling around drinking and cooking all day into the night. Without stacks, all that exhaust would be inhaled as it spewed out at knee level. The stacks assure it shoots up and floats away above head level as heat rises.

You don't have to leave if you don't have one, but you can't run your genset without it.

As far as the comments regarding voiding your warranty because Onan says "NO EXTENSIONS", that is total and complete BS. They say that to cover their arse for stupid people that connect 100' of hose in a garage scenario.

The Genturi does not create "ANY" back pressure. Thousands upon thousands of tailgaters have put tens of thousands of hours on their gensets with NO ill affects. I am one of them.

We have tailgated races where no stacks were required and the collateral exhaust fumes were dangerous, annoying and made your eyes water. My CO detector went off all day.

So if you don't tailgate or boondock, dont get one. Having slept hundreds of nights with mine running and hundreds of other RV's around me running theirs all night, I can tell you beyond any doubt, they work and are a great product.

I read somewhere that every hour a gen runs equals a gallon of gasoline. If you run it for days at a time did you have an aux fuel source, or did it not use that much.
Thanks

you might want to increase the "muffler" cleaning maintenance if using a Genturie device.

My Onan requires the spark arrester be blown out by running with the plug out every 50 hours. I am in the camp that these devices restrict flow. If you restrict flow, more crud is bound to end up in the spark arrester.

I am also in the camp that if your CO alarms are going off while the generator is running, you got a problem. Installing a Genturie to "correct" this is not a good idea. It is an improvement, but I would try to find the air leak.

The densities of air and CO are really close. Wind changes and inversion situations, as well as humidity levels, could very well send CO into your rig from the Genturie through the same pathway it was using prior to Genturie installation.

I have run my generator for hours while working around the new rig to see if it would trip the alarm. So far, no alarms. I do sleep in it with the generator running, but I check weather and wind to make sure I will have good air flow around the rig. Our bed is directly above the generator. I installed an additional plug-in CO detector in that room for an additional level of safety.

Hi Solid,

Yup, just like surge suppressors.

SolidAxleDurango wrote:
So it's a very well designed, unnecessary product. Got it.