Propane Tanks & Furnaces
I have a question regarding propane tanks and my RV furnace. This weekend, I had 1 full 30lb propane tank and one 2/3 full (30lb) propane tank on an automatic switch over valve. I had the switch ov...
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The weed burner has the old style male end with no excess flow valve. It works fine on old style tanks, hard to get flow on OPD tanks.
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New OPD style valves have several safety features built in. The least frustrating is the excess flow check valve on the tank side of the connection which is set high enough that it almost never matters. That said there is another excess flow valve in the QCC connection (the big plastic hand wheel that fits the outside threads of an OPD valve) which is color coded. Black ones are set to 55k btus, green to 200k and red to 400k. If either of these is closing you will hear it click. Just close the valve, wait a minute and reopen very slowly. If you think it’s stuck closed just bang the tank on the ground a few times then try opening it again.
Chris
On edit!
Found this:
New OPD style valves have several safety features built in. The least frustrating is the excess flow check valve on the tank side of the connection which is set high enough that it almost never matters. That said there is another excess flow valve in the QCC connection (the big plastic hand wheel that fits the outside threads of an OPD valve) which is color coded. Black ones are set to 55k btus, green to 200k and red to 400k. If either of these is closing you will hear it click. Just close the valve, wait a minute and reopen very slowly. If you think it’s stuck closed just bang the tank on the ground a few times then try opening it again.
Chris
