Secondary Propane doesn't light appliances
Hi, I'm a full time RV'er living in Alaska and New Jersey, and working anywhere there is a contract... On any coast :-) I have a 10G Internal Propane tank on my Class-C Shasta 26' Motor-home. Of...
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I'm also thinking that as others have posted, you probably have 2 regulators and that will cause a problem.
Another idea I have though is that the BBQ size propane bottles have a emergency shut off valve (probably not the correct term) where the connection to the hose is located, and if the propane comes out too fast (i.e. it thinks it has a leak), it will try to shut down the flow coming out of the bottle to none or just a trickle. This happens to me sometimes when I open the valve on top of the bottle too fast, or it will happen if you open the valve without a hose attached. What might be happening is that when the tank is opened that it is releasing a lot of pressure too fast to fill up the extra long length of hose that you now have.
That emergency valve will usually reset itself after the tank valve has been shut off for awhile or if a screwdriver is put in the outlet and kinda popped in there for a second to release the pressure behind it.
Could you try your setup without the long hose attached, as in set your tanks next to the big one and use the short hose to see if it still does it with the A/B switch/regulator?
Another idea I have though is that the BBQ size propane bottles have a emergency shut off valve (probably not the correct term) where the connection to the hose is located, and if the propane comes out too fast (i.e. it thinks it has a leak), it will try to shut down the flow coming out of the bottle to none or just a trickle. This happens to me sometimes when I open the valve on top of the bottle too fast, or it will happen if you open the valve without a hose attached. What might be happening is that when the tank is opened that it is releasing a lot of pressure too fast to fill up the extra long length of hose that you now have.
That emergency valve will usually reset itself after the tank valve has been shut off for awhile or if a screwdriver is put in the outlet and kinda popped in there for a second to release the pressure behind it.
Could you try your setup without the long hose attached, as in set your tanks next to the big one and use the short hose to see if it still does it with the A/B switch/regulator?
