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Subject:Re: hey Larry Chase need your experience
From:jimt
Date:Wed, 4 May 2005 12:31:17 -0600

There are gauges that can be put in the line with remote senders.  I have
seen them on some RV setups.  Don�t know what the price is on those but just
the price of the adapters was over 80 bucks US.
jimt

On 5/4/05 10:20 AM, "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> wrote:

> Hmm. I'm not sure how valuable that will be...
> 
> The regulator, if I'm correct, is supposed to maintain constant
> pressure >after< the tank. If you splice into the lines that are under
> the sink you are connecting after the regulator, so the gauge should
> always read the pressure that the regulator is set for...up to the
> point there isn't any propane left in the tank anymore...
> 
> To have a reliable gauge reading
> 
> , you'd need to put in a Tee BEFORE the regulator (and bring up a new
> propane line from that Tee up to your gauge. And that would essentially
> be an unregulated propane line in your "living" quarters. That would
> seem to be a bit unsafe to me (not sure what the rules on that would
> be.)
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Mark Cumnock wrote:
> 
>> i think I am going to add a gauge, under the sink, to keep it out of
>> the
>> weather.
>> 
>> I will make a t-splice, using gas fittings from home-d-pot.
> 
>