At 11:19 AM 12/5/2003, David Brodbeck wrote:
>Heh.  You just can't win on this list.  A while back someone was ranting
>about how unsafe it was to connect two tanks before the regulators, and
>saying how you should only connect them together downstream of the
>regulators.

The usual way (at least for removable tanks) would be with a switching
regulator.  I grew up with one like that, ran my grandparents' stove and
fridge.  When a bottle went dry it would shift to the other bottle and
raise a little indicator flag to say it was time to call the gas people who
were no doubt overjoyed to know they had a mile trek each way over a really
nasty "road" to sell a sixty-lb tank of propane.  But they were always nice
about it...it only happened once a summer or so.  Everything else was
kerosene...

david

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