Secure generator compartment door
Anyone know of manufacturers of more secure and solid compartment doors? I know I can change the lock on my generator compartment door to make it more secure. That's only part of the solution since ...
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Bedlam wrote:
If flames are coming out of the genset, the door is already damaged along with most of the surrounds. If you do have a generator fire, you want to cut the fuel off at the source (the LPG bottles) because supply lines and cutoff valves will melt quickly.
It has been my understanding that the ORP Valve on propane bottles will auto close if you break (damage) the tubing or supply lines.
And, no one will fill a propane bottle that doesn't have a ORP valve.
The fire that I'd worry most about involves gasoline... the tank on a portable generator and the gasoline storage containers that are probable being stored along side the portable generator.
There is no way in this world that I'd store gasoline in my wheel wells (but I have read that people do it that are members of this forum.)
