I've been looking at different ways to mount my generator and I think for me it's best on my catwalk.
My real question is about the exhaust. My truck is a flat top and the exhaust is short on my truck just barely above the roof.
I can't put any higher pipes on my truck because until I raise my garage up it has to be that low for me to fit in.
Is that high enough to run the exhaust from the generator?
Mounting generator/ exhausting the fumes?
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Dino soar, Sep 16, 2021.
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Hope you think about these gas generators are killers
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Just do a google search trucker died in truck from carbon monoxide. You will be shocked how many there are. Plus hundreds of campers die each year from these generators. They make a highly consecrated carbon monoxide producers 10 times higher then a car exhaust very dirty. There was a trucker in the Hope AR scale found dead in the sleeper with the generator running behind the sleeper. There was a post some where here in the trucker report about it I just can't find it.
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I used to run that setup, make sure you run a exhaust away from your cab, and also get a fire and carbon monoxide detector inside your truck. You can buy your self a full aluminum box and put that generator in it. But make sure you let it breathe and not overheat.
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Stop being cheap and buy an apu.
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I bought a carbon monoxide smoke detector combo for twenty bucks. Don’t know why anybody would go without one. What about all the weed burner exhausts these days.
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You're not using that set up anymore?
There are some guys that mount a generator on their trailer and they figure well it's on the trailer it's behind me I don't have anything to worry about and they just let it run.
But I started thinking today because I pulled into the truck stop headfirst which I normally do. I have a big fan in my truck and I roll the windows down and I enjoy the fresh air but if I did that and someone ran a generator back there they might kill me.
And vice versa. I don't want to kill anyone else.
So I don't know how high it is to the top of my stacks I'm guessing 10 feet?
Is that safe at 10 feet if I just let it run back towards my trailer or or maybe on a 45?
Like I said, I'm not just concerned about me I want to make sure anybody around me is safe and I am going to get a detector.Last edited: Sep 17, 2021
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There are plenty of people here on the right on the forum that they run a generator setup.shooter19802003, stuckinthemud, Rideandrepair and 1 other person Thank this.
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