Ran out of propane in TEN DAYS!?
Hello :) I'm a brand new full-time RVer. This morning I woke up to a freezing camper as we had ran out of propane during the night. We sold our home and moved into our RV on Oct. 19. I've only coo...
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now that were into stuffing tanks with extra how about the elephant in the room?
A typical 20K BTU/H RV furnace (they are rated at input, not output) running 30min an hour every hour per day, will burn 2.62 gallons of propane per 24hr of operation, typically 30# cylinder should have 7 gallons. Thats 3 days run time on 1 cylinder.
50% duty cycle is alot and extreme. run out of 2 tanks in 10 days is pretty spot on.
A typical 20K BTU/H RV furnace (they are rated at input, not output) running 30min an hour every hour per day, will burn 2.62 gallons of propane per 24hr of operation, typically 30# cylinder should have 7 gallons. Thats 3 days run time on 1 cylinder.
50% duty cycle is alot and extreme. run out of 2 tanks in 10 days is pretty spot on.
