3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Bahamaboy wrote:
Thanks for the info i was afraid it would melt the CPVC guess i will have to use metal conduit.
I would never run the unit inside my house or eeven close but have it in a sound enclosure and was hoping to pump the heat out of the box to help keep the unit cooler the enclosure/Generator is 40 feet away from my house
I was talking to a friend awhile back and he said that during the great Northeastern blackout a couple of years ago he put his generator out the back door of his garage (1st story) and the exhaust gasses rose up the wall of the house and into the open (2nd story) bedroom window. Fortunately they recognized the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.
I don't for a moment doubt is story, but I didn't think CO was lighter than air, but maybe heated exhaust gas is hot enough to rise and enter the cross ventilation air flow into the house.
While I'm at it, there was the story in the newspaper about CO deaths from running a generator in a garage with the garage door open about a foot or so. The problem is the wind was blowing towards the garage door and created positive air pressure in the garage. The other fatal mistake was running the power output extension cords from the generator into the house through a passage door from the garage and leaving the door ajar to accommodate the cords.
I guess the moral of the story is you must careful where you locate the generator and also surrounding environmental conditions.
