Leave propane on while driving?

Carlos & Ranae wrote:
No. Fortunately we have 1280kilowatts of solar with a bank of battleborn batteries which is enough to run the fridge between campgrounds.

Man, with 1.28 megawatts of solar, you could power the whole campground! :-)


(ok ok, I know you meant 1280 watts, but still, that's an impressive amount of power on an RV roof)

No. Fortunately we have 1280kilowatts of solar with a bank of battleborn batteries which is enough to run the fridge between campgrounds.

I leave my fridge on and running. No water heater on. My fridge is on the opposite and 25 feet back from my gas fill port. I usually fill up before hooking up to leave the campground. If not, I don’t worry about it. Too much doom and gloom here.

Mike134 wrote:
With sadly 20,000+ killed on the highways every year, your 1000x more likely to die in a plain old crash, than going up in a spectacular ball of flame from your propane frig running while you drive/refill the gas tank.

Sure but where's the fun in that if you can't blow a non issue out of proportion and then argue about it on the internet?? LOL

mlpeloquin wrote:
That is why I made sure to have a stick and brick refrigerator in my motor home. It cools much better than the gas/electric in the slide of the old fifth wheel and does not have to be turned off while filling up. When gas/electric refrigerators are not in a slide, they do a much better job staying cold in the heat.

This makes absolutely no sense unless you have your 5ver rigged with some serious batteries, large inverter and super charging capacity. Or am I missing something? How do you keep the "sticks n bricks" fridge running all day long while toodeling down the road?

opnspaces wrote:
Maybe it's because I live in California and we have required vapor recovery at the nozzles. But I can't remember the last time I smelled gasoline at a gas station. Here's my thoughts on why I'm not concerned about running the refrigerator when refueling the tow vehicle.

There are no spills because we have automatic shutoff nozzles on the fuel pumps. If the nozzle falls out of the fill pipe the nozzle immediately shuts off.

Both the water heater and the refrigerator are at the same height or higher than the hood on 99% of the vehicles on the road.
Cars and trucks have Starters and alternators that spark when in operation.

Heck I've noticed in colder areas of the country that people leave their engines running when fueling. If we're not concerned about this then why would we be concerned about a pilot light 3 feet in the air?

While I agree with you and don't believe there is any issue with running with propane on, if you think all gasoline nozzles have vapor recovery and auto shut off on the nozzle and that a running engine poses the same ignition risk as an open flame, you are quite mistaken.

That is why I made sure to have a stick and brick refrigerator in my motor home. It cools much better than the gas/electric in the slide of the old fifth wheel and does not have to be turned off while filling up. When gas/electric refrigerators are not in a slide, they do a much better job staying cold in the heat.

With sadly 20,000+ killed on the highways every year, your 1000x more likely to die in a plain old crash, than going up in a spectacular ball of flame from your propane frig running while you drive/refill the gas tank.

Maybe it's because I live in California and we have required vapor recovery at the nozzles. But I can't remember the last time I smelled gasoline at a gas station. Here's my thoughts on why I'm not concerned about running the refrigerator when refueling the tow vehicle.

There are no spills because we have automatic shutoff nozzles on the fuel pumps. If the nozzle falls out of the fill pipe the nozzle immediately shuts off.

Both the water heater and the refrigerator are at the same height or higher than the hood on 99% of the vehicles on the road.
Cars and trucks have Starters and alternators that spark when in operation.

Heck I've noticed in colder areas of the country that people leave their engines running when fueling. If we're not concerned about this then why would we be concerned about a pilot light 3 feet in the air?

If your involved in an accident and smell propane from a ruptured line, your unable or a passenger is unable to free themselves that question may be answered in no time at all.