Propane and Its Challenges. ~ 2 comments.
Another cold morning, but cold mornings are more tolerable when it's warming up by 9 o'clock, and the coats are coming off. That's just the way it is in the winter desert environment, cold nights and warm days.
When I got out of bed this morning about 6 o'clock, flipped on the furnace switch and nothing but freezing cold air came out of the furnace and that's always a sure sign that one of my propane tanks is empty and is going to require me to crawl out the door get my full propane tank out of the truck, remove the empty tank from its cubby, and put the full one in. That's easy enough to write down, but when it's dark outside and 27°, accomplishing that is considerably more difficult and time-consuming. But there's nothing like standing in the middle of a camper where it's 29° inside, the furnace is blowing freezing air, and the propane stove doesn't work to make a hot cup of coffee; it definitely motivates a person to get outside and change the tank.
So when I talk about the boondocking lifestyle being challenging, running out of propane in the middle of the night when it's below freezing is one of those challenges I mentioned. So I would recommend to anyone with an RV that you should always have two propane tanks hooked up and ready to go. I can't do that with the Lance since there's no room for two tanks. But when you do it that way, then when you run out of propane, and you have a propane regulator that will do the old switcheroo. the tanks will automatically switch to the full one, or, like me, keep one tank open, and the other one closed. That way, when you run out of propane in the middle of the night, just run outside real quick, close one valve, and open the other, and your propane is working like normal in a matter of seconds.
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