We'll explain which type of gas you need. Comparison Summer or winter Conclusion. Summer versus winter usage. Propane gas in summer and winter. Butane gas in summer. View all gas pressure regulators. Did this help you? Yes No. How can we improve this page? We only use your feedback to improve the website, we won't respond. Submit your feedback. Thanks for your feedback. To date, I have not used a decent one that has beat the simplicity and ease of warm water on the side of the gas cylinder.
Let me know if you have tried anything better. Pressurised gauges are good for measuring how much gas in a pressurised gas bottle, like diving bottles. Liquefied gas means that the pressure is affected by the temperature and not the quantity of gas. The pressure will remain constant until the bottle is empty. This explains a lot for when I tried to use the gauge to determine how much gas was in the bottle. It was all over the place, some days it was full, other days nearly empty.
Took me a while to twig that on the cold days the pressure was way down compared to warm days. So in the summer it always looks like you have plenty of gas. Those pressure gauges are in fact useless. The pressure of your gas bottle will not let you know how much gas is in there. Although Butane is classed as an LPG it is not used in its pure form in petrol stations where you can buy LPG mainly because of its poor performance below freezing.
Mixing Butane with Propane lowers the working temperature, making it usable in freezing conditions. Most modern motorhomes and a lot of older ones have swapped over to LPG. LPG tends to be much cheaper and more convenient as you can just fill your bottles in a petrol station. We have been thinking about the conversion which makes sense especially in Europe where each country has its own type of gas bottles with incompatible valves.
With LPG all you need is a set of adapters for the petrol stations and you are good to go. Worth thinking about if you are going to be doing any travel in Europe.
Having gas bottles is a great way to heat and cook in your motorhome but if you are going to spend some serious time in your motorhome and do a good amount of travelling then I would definitely consider getting an LPG system fitted.
You would save a lot of money. That is for 11kg of gas. LPG is bought by the litre and not in Kilos. There are 1. So at the moment, you can get the same amount of LPG as you would get in a propane tank for under half price and 65p at the moment is expensive a lot of garages are cheaper. You can see if you use a lot of gas the cost of fitting an LPG system would quickly be recouped, not to mention the convenience of being able to fill up in many garages all over Europe. Will keep you updated if you are interested or let me know some of your experiences with your gas set up.
General Motorhome , Motorhome Maintenance. Butane Propane are the important sources for cooking. The difference between those was explained well in this post. Thanks for sharing the blog. So here I am to say: Great article! Very informative to me at least. And describing your own experiences is gold. So that is the bit that, still, confuses me. Although I am sure you could easily explain the difference.
Either way, your site, and the related posts, all great! Although, it surprises me that when propane is combined with Botane, it can lower the working temperature, thus, making it suitable for freezing conditions. Phil May 14, Excellent article, I have both in my RV, just because i bought a refillable bottle when i had a caravan so thats the propane LPG great for cold weather i did not know and as we are in Spain we have Butane as thats what they sell in all garages.
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