Propane use. Now we use twice as much!
We've been on the road since February. When we started a five gallon cylinder seemed to last a month. Now it lasts a week! I know it's summer now and the fridge has to work harder but gee. Or maybe we...
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"Both are considered LP, but you will use approx 30 percent more when burning Butane versus propane"
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Just a bit of smiley grade verification. Butane has a slight but noticeable higher energy value than does propane. Corroborated by WikiPedia, and a few hundred other references.
When the earth was young and I towed a trailer from the USA to Mexico the Mexolina, then Nova almost-gasoline was intolerable. Rather than switch cylinder heads to get 5.0 to 1 compression ratio I elected to change to 100% LPG motorfuel. I had a bunk-bed stack of 2 83 gallon Manchester motor fuel tanks crossways in the bed.
The rig got between 5.3 to 5.7 mpg in the USA and a consistent 6.1 - 6.3 mpg on coastal lowland hot weather butane. The system had a pressure gauge so I knew low pressure meant butane.
This all sounds nuts except when it came to buying fuel down here. It averaged 18 cents per gallon. Now it is two dollars and change per gallon and the gasoline, at least the Premium red pump grade, is 100% USA refined. BTW I later nicknamed the early days of diesel "# 2-1/2" Way better fuel mileage than 1970's USA diesel.
The fuel mileage computations were consistent year after year after year. Butane was slightly more economical. Then I finished Quicksilver and enjoyed fifteen cents per gallon #2-1/2 diesel - yellow, smelly and oily.
:)
Just a bit of smiley grade verification. Butane has a slight but noticeable higher energy value than does propane. Corroborated by WikiPedia, and a few hundred other references.
When the earth was young and I towed a trailer from the USA to Mexico the Mexolina, then Nova almost-gasoline was intolerable. Rather than switch cylinder heads to get 5.0 to 1 compression ratio I elected to change to 100% LPG motorfuel. I had a bunk-bed stack of 2 83 gallon Manchester motor fuel tanks crossways in the bed.
The rig got between 5.3 to 5.7 mpg in the USA and a consistent 6.1 - 6.3 mpg on coastal lowland hot weather butane. The system had a pressure gauge so I knew low pressure meant butane.
This all sounds nuts except when it came to buying fuel down here. It averaged 18 cents per gallon. Now it is two dollars and change per gallon and the gasoline, at least the Premium red pump grade, is 100% USA refined. BTW I later nicknamed the early days of diesel "# 2-1/2" Way better fuel mileage than 1970's USA diesel.
The fuel mileage computations were consistent year after year after year. Butane was slightly more economical. Then I finished Quicksilver and enjoyed fifteen cents per gallon #2-1/2 diesel - yellow, smelly and oily.
