Somebody in the previous post suggested that there was probably water in the kitchen regulator, freezing overnight. I had already come to the same conclusion and so was not surprised when…
…I removed it and water poured out. Somehow it really got a snootful during the rain of a few days ago.
I installed that regulator a few years ago, replacing a really perfectly good one…
…because I wanted a bypass regulator so I could stop going out and changing bottles in the dark on (inevitably) the coldest morning of the month. But there was never anything wrong with the old one, which I stored carefully as Plan B. And now my kitchen stove works again. Actually it started working around 9 this morning when the water melted, but that wouldn’t have lasted.
I is perplexed. HOW did a significant amount of water get into the bypass regulator, assuming there were two bottles attached?
Seal on the top of the regulator appears to have dried out in the sun. I keep it and the bottles covered, but rain doesn’t always come straight down.
Ah. Makes sense. Thank you. Water is sneaky; I’ve sealed things up so no water could ever get in and uh, wrong.
Uh, don’t some pf those regulators have a (screened) vent to allow the diaphragm room to breathe?
boynsea
Propane has a lot of moisture in it. That combined with the cold is condensing that water out and plugging the bypass regulator. If you ever lived in a RV in cold climates you learn to insulate or heat tape your regulator to allow it to regulate.