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Subject:Re: Lighting stove before lighting fridge
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:08:04 -0400

At 12:46 PM 8/19/2015, Jeff Palmer wrote:
>When I turn off the fridge i do so first at the tank so that it
>burns off gas in the line. Seems safer to me.

It's pretty pointless, Jeff.  At most you're only changing the amount
of gas in the line by about 2.5 percent, as you can only reduce it to
14.7 psia from 14.7 plus about 0.4 psia.

Yours,
d