Leave propane on while driving?
Our normal practice has been to leave our propane on while driving to keep the refrigerator cold and hot water hot, but I know that can be risky. What do you recommend? Thanks, Lee
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Terryallan wrote:jdc1 wrote:
LOL. This again? I'm 65 years old. I have never seen an explosion in a gas station caused by an RV refrigerator pilot flame. How many have ACTUALLY seen the this happen? Cell phones too?
Modern RV fridges don't have a pilot flame. Which in truth is less dangerous than the DSI.
But I agree with you. Been camping for 40 years, and have never seen, or heard of a fridge starting a fire at the pump.
However, RV propane refrigerators do have an open flame when running - whether or not a pilot flame or an electric igniter started their open flame.
Our refrigerator is on the side of the coach, and close to, where the gas fill is on our motorhome. So just in case the refrig might be running with it's open flame when we gas up, I temporarily stop the refrigerator from running at all by using the procedure I described earlier in which I temporarily turn off the coach's entire 12V power while gassing up.
Luck never lasts forever ... it just can go on long enough such that one might think that it's never going to run out.
