Hello all, I have a Westinghouse 9500 standby generator (same one that Daugen has) and we built a 4‘ x 4‘ shed for it. We bought a little 6 inch exhaust fan and installed it in the shed wall near the exhaust of the generator, but I’m afraid that the generator heat just melted the plastic housing on the outside. Clearly it was not adequate. And as a result, the generator overheated and shut down. I can get one of those commercial exhaust fans with louvers with various cubic feet per minute (up to 1100) exhaust, but I’m wondering if this is a good idea.
The issue is the powerful exhaust from the generator itself. it of course gets really hot, and I am thinking of maybe cutting a bigger hole in the wall of the shed and putting a metal pipe that the exhaust can shoot itself through. however, there still is the problem of heat buildup inside the shed, and I am wondering whether it’s a good idea or not to get a 500 ft.³ per minute exhaust fan to put up near the roof of the shed. The question is, would that interfere with the exhaust from the generator going outside? we would have two competing exhausts. The first one would be the hot exhaust from the generator, and the second would be the fan up above. Would the fan up above suck the hot exhaust gas for the generator back into the shed and defeat the purpose of the Generator Exhaust Fan?
Like I mentioned, the generator is 4 x 4, with the cable and roof sticking up about another foot or so, and the roof is shingled with asphalt shingles.
Any help would be much appreciated!