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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Let's all be careful out there!
Very sad story in the local paper today. An older couple in a RV parked overnight near town and ran the generator so they could have A/C all night (it's been really hot and humid here in mid-east Tennessee). She woke up the next a.m.; he didn't. She was released after a day in the ICU for carbon monoxide poisoning.
The paper is scant on details, but I'm assuming it was an on-board gennie since it was a motorized RV and not a trailer. No mention was made of whether there was a carbon monoxide detector or not.
The Professor has cautioned before that "he would not sleep with the genset running" and this illustrates why! Even though my genset is external and receiver-hitch mounted, I also believe it would be a bad idea to sleep with the gennie running, just in case of CO accumulation or fire.
Regards,
John
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
Very sad story in the local paper today. An older couple in a RV parked overnight near town and ran the generator so they could have A/C all night (it's been really hot and humid here in mid-east Tennessee). She woke up the next a.m.; he didn't. She was released after a day in the ICU for carbon monoxide poisoning.
The paper is scant on details, but I'm assuming it was an on-board gennie since it was a motorized RV and not a trailer. No mention was made of whether there was a carbon monoxide detector or not.
The Professor has cautioned before that "he would not sleep with the genset running" and this illustrates why! Even though my genset is external and receiver-hitch mounted, I also believe it would be a bad idea to sleep with the gennie running, just in case of CO accumulation or fire.
Regards,
John
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
