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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skyzoomer wrote:
Hmmm, looks like distance is not that effective if the wind is blowing the fumes toward the house. Maybe an exhaust stack with the top of the stack above the roof is the only safe way to go? Definitely got me wondering.
Long, long time lurker on this thread, and I'm finally going to stick my head out and add to it.
Without trying to sound too full of myself, I'm a PhD chemist, so I know a little about chemicals. ;-)
CO is lighter than air. It wants to rise. Depending on what that family's yard terrain is like, how much wind there was, etc., the CO may have "risen" up a slope and into the house.
A raised stack is a great idea.
I was doing some math regarding the generator in the car port with 12' open sides, trying to figure out much air would need to be "mixed" with the CO to bring it down to safe levels, but then I just smacked myself. With CO, it's better to be safe than to be very sorry.
cnsayre
PS. Oh yeah, I also own a Champion Generator.
