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Subject:Re: vanagon Digest - 8 Nov 2010 - Special issue (#2010-1031)
From:Richard A Jones
Date:Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:52:52 -0700

> One thing I worry about with
> propane heater tapped to westy tank, is freezing of external gas
> lines, just downstream of reg.

Two things:

European gas specs always talk about butane/propane and have
some temperature cutoff to deal with this.  We just have
propane here.

We have two stage regulators to deal with cold temps.  That's
what the 2nd stage is for--to prevent freezing, or regulate
in freezing temps.

The propane we have is fine to way too cold to camp.

I've camped in temps down to the low 20s and used my
heater--a Carver P4, now replaced with a Propex.

Disclaimer:  here, we, etc, refer to the US of A.  I can't
speak of primitive northern areas....

Richard

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