Running the generator all night
Hello all, so we have been to a few harvest hosts and its been hot, i don't know why, but I am apprehensive about letting the generator run all night. should I be? Does anyone else do this or do you...
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magicbus wrote:ferndaleflyer wrote:Free overnight stays at attractions. https://harvesthosts.com/host-locations/
Whats an HH location?
Of course rather than pay for fuel all night for a generator, it would probably be more economical, quieter and less worrisome to stay in a nearby campground and pay for electricity.
Dave
Unless you can find a campground under $10-15/n, probably not. We can run the generator overnight for air/con with around 2 gal of gas. 24/7 would be about 5gal/day.
- Yes, check that they allow overnight generator use. Some may have neighbors or business reasons not to allow it but many you are just out in a field away from anyone who might be disturbed.
- Really not much difference running it in the daytime or at night. If you have generator, make sure it's set up to operate safely.
The last couple years we've had a summer permanent site at a park with marginal power (covid plus some other reasons to stay there). On hot busy weekends, we along with probably a dozen other rigs, crank up the generators when the park voltage drops. Owner made an issue of it once and was promptly told by a group of us, we would be happy to turn them off if he provided the power we paid for...he quickly dropped the issue.
We have a portable generator, so it goes about 15ft behind the trailer downwind with the exhaust pointing away. Never had an issue with the CO detector going off.
