Portable Camping Stove Design Issue

porterwake wrote:
So I have a popup camper too, with a stove that moves from inside to outside. How nice since there are gas lines in both spots.

I hook the stove up, push the button down to lite, and try to light the burner. Nothing. Check that all valves are open, gas tank full, furnace works great. Nothing.

Take the stove unit, apart and this is what is under the top plate.


Curious about this design. I was going to say that I'm not chemist but, I am a chemist and gas doesn't follow a path that is open.

Pressurized gas at a high velocity however does "follow a path that is open" and shoots by those open spots creating a vacuum, siphoning the correct amount of air and mixing the gas and air at the same time to the correct ratio to burn correctly.

This isn't a "chemist" thing..

If stove works fine indoors but not outdoors you could have several things causing that..

#1, do you have gas at the connection?

Do you smell the odorant that is put into the propane when stove valve is on? You should smell it when not lit..

Sometimes you may find a shutoff valve inline with the quick disconnect, it may be turned off as a default for safety as quick connects sometimes leak when not connected..

Quick disconnects can also fail to pass gas when connected, did it ever work?

#2 too much wind?

While the burner and air gap may be protected from the wind pretty well, it doesn't take a lot of wind getting around the protection to prevent proper fuel to air mix. May need to create an additional wind break to shield stove in that case..