Thanks for the information Old Biscuit. It sounds as if I would have to have the 50 amp service. Most of the campgrounds I have checked into require the full timer's to pay their own electricity. I don't really know what it would run, but it would have to be cheaper than heating a home. Even propane is getting expensive anymore.
BarbaraOK wrote:
What size external tank are you talking about? And are you sure there are no local ordinances prohibiting it? In Mesa, you can't fill tanks in a park, but you can have a dealer deliver replacement tanks and take the empty ones away.
Barb
I don't know about ordinances. I just know the propane dealers won't do it. There are two main kinds of tanks that I can find. First, the horizontal tanks that are fixed at the site. The local dealers require them to be hard piped to a permanent structure. They would be measured in gallons. None of the dealers here have 250 gal. tanks so it would be a 500 gal. I figure I will use around 300 gal a year.
The second kind of tanks are vertical tanks. They are filled by weight. They include the tanks on the trailer which are 30#. I can buy 100# tanks, but the dealers won't fill them at the site. The older trucks used to be able to do it, but the newer trucks have no way to measure the weight and risk over filling. They make larger vertical tanks but I wouldn't be able to handle them. I have to lift them alone and the 100# tanks weigh 170# when full. The dealers don't have the smaller tanks to deliver to the site to exchange. They just have 500gal and larger tanks.
Even if I wanted to run back to the propane dealer to have the 30# or 100# tanks filled every week or two, it would be a lot more expensive than even the electric. I priced it at the local dealer and they said 300 gal of propane delivered to a 500 gal tank would cost a little over $300. But the same amount of propane dispensed 30# at a time into smaller tanks would cost $1200.
At this time, my best two options are either something like this cheap heat or abandoning propane all together and having an all electric heater put in. I don't want to do that because in the future at another campsite, I may be able to use the propane and save money.
