What's needed to connect Mr Buddy heater to stove gas line?

I elected to leave my small MR Buddy as is in its portable status and running from the 1-lb canisters. It converts alot of water when being used so it has to sit in a drip pan anyway all the time. Also with the concerns about always having a open window or vent somewhere I just didn't want to make it "too" easy to use. I have plenty of 1-lb canisters with us all the time as our Coleman Road trip grill uses them as well.

Even with open vents we still don't sleep with our Mr Buddy running over night in the big trailer.

Its our number one heat source in our OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer when off road. The built-in propane furnace heater is just way too big for our POPUP trailer. It drives us out with all the heat it produces and is also way to noisy. Wakes me up every time it kicks on.

We don't run heaters in the POPUP trailer over night as well... Covers and a low wattage bed heater from Power Inverter works for us...

makes that bon-fire at day break feel so good with the first cup of morning coffee...

Roy Ken

My trailer had a line for the outside BBQ with a quick disconnect. I made an adapter for the disconnect to the bottle connection. Then I adjusted the regulator (less spring tension) This is the smaller Mr Buddy heater. The filter is needed if using high pressure. In you case a tee,hose and a quick disconnect would work.

You can believe and use any hose you want to, but I can tell you that "propane" hose is expensive, and plain **** when compare to other type hoses.
I used to plumb the heaters w/ nothing but automotive fuel injection hose, which is a much higher grade of hose, 14 yrs, and no deterioration whatsoever.

I then did some research on the cheap clear vinyl hose at any hardware store, and found it to be indestructible to any gas or liquid, acids etc etc.
I used a total of 15 feet of 1/4" to plumb my Cat heaters in my current MH.
Its been 5 years now, no deterioration whatsoever. I used quality 1/8" pipe barbed fittings w/ 3 quality zip ties on each end,......not ever a problem.

The filter is not needed. I don't recall where I purchased the hose, but it has regular male pipe fittings on both ends. The hose is always connected.

I had an outside gas connection for the bbq. Never used it so I routed the gas line into the living area with an on/off valve. Mr Heater works great. I can disconnect it and put it away.

Tom,

I just did notice when looking at the heaters that the small Mr Buddy doesn't have the quick disconnect as you mentioned.

So I have to remove the regulator because it's connected to a low pressure line, what about the filter I see mentioned in the catalogs for the heater? I'm guessing it's not needed because I'm using the low pressure line feed?

Lastly, what hose did you buy to connect from the tee to the heater and is it always left connected?

Thanks

Ron

If your heater is the Buddy and not the Big Buddy you have to remove the regulator from the heater since the feed going to the stove is low pressure. The Big Buddy has a connector for low pressure. I installed a tee in the gas line and connected a hose to my Buddy heater. I didn't use quick connectors.