Weber 220 regulator removed for my Lance quick connect

I did something similar, just unscrewed the Weber regulator and had a reducer and threaded male fitting on the 10 ft hose that connected where the regulator was. It's great to just plug in your BBQ to the fitting on the back bumper of my Arctic Fox and fire up the Weber Q.

Can't get the grill very hot with this setup. Does anyone have any idea why? Did I get the wrong parts? I read something about removing a check valve to increase flow...now I can't find the article.

Not sure but it may be more of a function of the BBQ, than anything wrong.
Instructions for the small Weber say you have to wait till it heats up. Once I quit expecting it to get hot right away, it works great.

TimH

Seemed to work better with just a small tank..

I had it on high and it barely was hot enough to cook burgers and dogs. Im going to play with it more. Ill hook up the old set up with the small tank and see what that does..

We dont have a quick connect but also got tired of carrying the small bottles decided I would add one. I kept running across issues folks were having (like yours) with different pressures/flows etc when researching that made me rethink. As both our bbq & shop heater have there own regulator I decided to use a tee (Camco 3 port 90° #59133) on high pressure side of the 20# bottle & I could let camper /shop external devices regulate. On camper its placed before its regulator. So far it works as intended.

More related to yours, one of the bbq issues I came across (more for back yard bbqs &bottles) is the OPD on the bottles themselves. While Ive never had this problem I've read that opening the valve on bottle quickly can result in the internal safety feature going into 'check'. This would be where you have a lot of line or open end, the valve thinks theres a leak. Its a safety thing that restricts flow. You have to shut everything down-taking pressure off the bottle and open slowly. This explainsOPD better than me. This linkeven better, under the towables section describes but also where the valve may not be fully open and not supply full flow to system.

Ive also read where the quick couplers on some RVs have there own regulator on them, I do not know which ones. But this might have been the RV net post you mentioned, thread I gather most of the hoses have a check valve in them-connected to a regulated port restricts flow. I dont know if this is case on Lance q/cs. Doubtful and even so I couldn't recommend clearing the check valve..

Possibly some Teflon partially blocking flow? Wonder if a propane shop can check flows/pressure on a camper?

Hey thanks for the info. Im going to first try the grill with the original small tank and factory regulator to see how much flame I get. This will give me a good starting point.

I never thought to try to shut off the valve and let the check valve reset. I hooked everything up and flipped the gas line open..this may have caused my issue.

Everything else worked in the camper (stove/fridge) so I don't think mt regulator is bad...