Outside Propane Connection??
I just bought a brand new 33' Winnie Minnie. It has a small door that reveals an outside propane connection, supposedly so I can hook up a camp stove outside. In reading reviews on stoves (such as ...
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CSteiner1020 wrote:
I just bought a brand new 33' Winnie Minnie. It has a small door that reveals an outside propane connection, supposedly so I can hook up a camp stove outside. In reading reviews on stoves (such as the RoadTrip model, etc.), it says you CAN'T connect a camp stove to a 30# propane tank because of the way it is regulated.
If you can't do it, why is there a connection on the camper? I'm SOOOO technology challenged...having a hard time understanding! I just want to be able to cook dinner outside.
The entire system in the RV is low pressure, regulated at the the feed from the tank. The road trip is also a low pressure appliance but it has its own regulator as they're not a RV specific grill for lack of a better term. They're marketed to the general grilling public who is going to hook a 1lb or 20 lb cylinder directly to the grill. You can always buy a grill already set up for use on an RV but most of them suck, and are more of a food warmer than a grill.
You can have two regulators, the one part of the RV system, and the one on the grill, and it may or may not fire up, but even if it does you'll most likely not be able to pass enough volume to get the max BTU from the Roadtrip.
ScottG's solution is the correct solution, remove the regulator from the Roadtrip. Hopefully the Roadtrip is not like a WeberQ which has its regulator integral with the temperature control, but even then you can now find adapter kits.
The only RVs I have ever seen with a dedicated high pressure L.P. quick disconnect were some of the Coleman popups.
I have all my stuff set up as ScottG has. One thing you may find is you need to go to a better main regulator with a higher BTU capacity. The RV manufacturers tend to use the cheapest regulators obtainable. I have a Campchef stove with 3 90K BTU burners, sort of like 3 turkey fryers welded together, and the cheap Generic regulator on our Rockwood would not pass enough BTUs in volume to get the most out of it. A $60 Marshall Excelsior with a much higher BTU rating solved that issue.
