Disappointed - Just Venting
We've had our current trailer about 15 months now and love it, EXCEPT, the Dometic air conditioner quit at about 13 months and now the Atwood refrigerator has quit. Both items have 2 year warranties a...
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Most of the time the LP appliances are in some way safer than the gas powered truck pulling the TT.. a gas tank 1/4 full could be a bomb.
The main flame is actually called a pilot light which is used to heat a probe called thermocouple which creates up to 39 MLv and holds a valve open which allows the gas to flow to through the valve to the burner when needed. If the pilot goes out the thermocouple cools, the valve closes and no gas will flow through the valve.
Plus a lot of the newer fitting have a high flow shut off.. If the hose ruptures or something like that and gas flows at a higher rate than normal a valve will shut it down. the gas valve on the tank has to turned off to reset the valve. I think that is a great addition to the safety profile for LP gas appliances and tanks.
The main flame is actually called a pilot light which is used to heat a probe called thermocouple which creates up to 39 MLv and holds a valve open which allows the gas to flow to through the valve to the burner when needed. If the pilot goes out the thermocouple cools, the valve closes and no gas will flow through the valve.
Plus a lot of the newer fitting have a high flow shut off.. If the hose ruptures or something like that and gas flows at a higher rate than normal a valve will shut it down. the gas valve on the tank has to turned off to reset the valve. I think that is a great addition to the safety profile for LP gas appliances and tanks.
Old-Biscuit wrote:RavensFan24 wrote:EcoBullet wrote:
Mine didn't switch over to propane a couple of times, not noticed until food was warm. I was informed that there was probably air in the propane line. After that, I lit a burner on the stove and made sure the frig was working on propane before departing.
Speaking of the fridge working on propane before departing.....how many of you travel with your propane tanks open to keep the fridge cold during travel? It seems dangerous to me. I did it a couple times by accident just forgetting. I'm curious, what is the actual danger level of keeping the propane line open while traveling?
Propane safety features:
Propane can not flow out of propane cylinder without a hose connected (shutoff device in service valve has to be held open by 'stub' inside ACME nut (Big green nut)
ACME nut has an internal 'ball' check valve that will close on high excess flow-----torn hose, broken line etc.
ACME nut has a thermal ring that will melt and allow 'stub' to recede away from cylinder shutoff device stopping flow of propane
Fridge, water heater and furnace have safety checks.....no main flame gas valve closes
SO YEAH..........using propane while in transit is pretty safe.
Safer than that fuel tank or hot engine oil or overheated brake fluids etc.
