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Another home generator question
Posted on 9/11/21 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 9/11/21 at 1:31 pm
How is it safe for most standby generators to be installed about 3’ from a house, but portable ones are recommending 20’ Neighbor checked Carbon Monoxide readings in the room next to her whole home generator and the reading was really high.
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Posted on 9/11/21 at 2:33 pm to 400Reasons
Not at all
Posted on 9/11/21 at 2:55 pm to 400Reasons
Generally they need to be farther than that. Thats probably still under the soffit and hot exhaust is going to go all up in the attic.
Posted on 9/11/21 at 4:03 pm to 400Reasons
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How is it safe for most standby generators to be installed about 3’ from a house, but portable ones are recommending 20’ Neighbor checked Carbon Monoxide readings in the room next to her whole home generator and the reading was really high.
Catalytic converters are a difference in design of two types of generators
Posted on 9/11/21 at 4:40 pm to Chad504boy
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Catalytic converters are a difference in design of two types of generators
Dude 90% of home generators are running the same damned motor as your lawn mower. Just bored out and running natural gas
Honest answer, the entire thing is slightly overblown.
My sensors on my generators never even click yellow running them under a carport open on three sides.
Hell the small inverter was 3ft away from the exhaust of the big one and the wind kept the air clear.
Posted on 9/11/21 at 5:55 pm to X123F45
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Dude 90% of home generators are running the same damned motor as your lawn mower. Just bored out and running natural gas
Well to be honest I’m repeating something I heard on radio about same question
Posted on 9/12/21 at 11:16 am to 400Reasons
Burning natural gas produces less carbon monoxide than gasoline or diesel. Low carbon emissions are one of the big advantages of natural gas fired power plants for those that care bout such things.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 10:06 pm to 400Reasons
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How is it safe for most standby generators to be installed about 3’ from a house
It’s not. Fire department here ran about 20 CO calls per day for the first week after the storm. All but a handful were natural gas standby generators and many of them had levels high enough to kill them that night if their alarms wouldn’t have gone off. Every single one was installed within 3 feet of their homes (some closer). Most were in subdivisions with 10 feet between houses and a lot of them had fences front and back. CO detectors probably saved a hundred lives during that week. The first comment out of the home owners’ mouths was “but it was professionally installed.” Those things chug out an enormous amount of exhaust and people aren’t being advised on how to properly keep their families safe when having them installed.
This post was edited on 9/12/21 at 10:18 pm
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