Propanes winding down

[KuntzBrewing]

Listening to my burner and its slowing down, gonna be making a midnight run to the gas station! Luckly no hop additions yet, just boiling down to get to the hopping level. I used too much water!

 

[nukinfuts29]

Ok

 

[Pappers_]

I'm sure you've already thought about this, but that's why it's a good idea to keep a spare, full tank so you can swap them out mid-brew. Hope everything worked out for you!

 

[jetmac]

While you're there, pick up a spare.

 

[elvestinkle]

I must join the backup chorus on this one--prevention of wailing and gnashing teeth makes RDWHAHB viable. Having a spare propane tank is what made my wedding brews feasible, and the tank did kick more than once! What we did was use the near-empty one on the mash water and the mostly full one on the wort boil, which always gave me time to refill the empty once it gave its last gasp.

 

[nukinfuts29]

You could always just use 100lb tanks also. Two 100lb tanks with one or two grill tanks as backups would work wonders for avoiding issues.

Also don't quote me here, but don't you get more life from your propane if you run two tanks as the source? What I mean is, growing up my dad had two large tanks on our house. Not the 500lb, I'm guessing 250 each. Both of them were always in use at the same time. It was something about expansion of gasses i don't know. Maybe someone can chime in.

 

[Berniep]

You could always just use 100lb tanks also. Two 100lb tanks with one or two grill tanks as backups would work wonders for avoiding issues.

Also don't quote me here, but don't you get more life from your propane if you run two tanks as the source? What I mean is, growing up my dad had two large tanks on our house. Not the 500lb, I'm guessing 250 each. Both of them were always in use at the same time. It was something about expansion of gasses i don't know. Maybe someone can chime in.

A lot of times they used two so you can swap them out one at a time without having to relight all the pilot lights.

 

[jonp9576]

the reason you would use two tanks at the same time would be for the vaporization rate. if the tank is not rated for the size of the burner, ie a grill tank for the 200k btu burners people use, it allows twice as much gas to vaporize which allows the burner to run correctly without freezing up the tank.

We install two tanks at peoples houses for two reasons. One, so we dont have to go back every week and fill it up. The second is because on the real cold days, you need the extra vapor for the heater to run efficiently.

 

[bigljd]

Or, just go electric and you'll never buy propane again

(sorry, I just converted to electric a month ago and am still a bit giddy about it)

 

[nukinfuts29]

the reason you would use two tanks at the same time would be for the vaporization rate. if the tank is not rated for the size of the burner, ie a grill tank for the 200k btu burners people use, it allows twice as much gas to vaporize which allows the burner to run correctly without freezing up the tank.

We install two tanks at peoples houses for two reasons. One, so we dont have to go back every week and fill it up. The second is because on the real cold days, you need the extra vapor for the heater to run efficiently.

Ahh, that clears it up.

 

[BigTerp]

I have 2 15lb tanks but the empty one is currently tied to the christmas tree to hold it up. I'm thinking of getting a 35lber from my local campground. Less trips to get it filled.

 

[KuntzBrewing]

If my tank freezes up does that mean the LP is boiling inside the tank too fast (ie Flame turned up to high), or how can I fix this and still have a rapid boil

 

[lou2row]

I have 2 15lb tanks but the empty one is currently tied to the christmas tree to hold it up. I'm thinking of getting a 35lber from my local campground. Less trips to get it filled.

I read this and automatically looked over to where you were from. I'd make a smart azz comment, but I'm afraid you would be on me like a spider monkey.

 

[BigTerp]

I read this and automatically looked over to where you were from. I'd make a smart azz comment, but I'm afraid you would be on me like a spider monkey.

HA. Point taken. But WV is where I live, not from!! I still like to poke fun at WV, I grew up in Maryland and just recently moved to WV. I'm still a redneck though. The propane tank holding up the tree worked great. We only had a small 5-1/2 foot tree and it wouldn't stay in the damn tree holder. My wife was decorating it and it kept falling. I tried everything and finally pulled out the empty tank from my last brewday and tied her up. Redneck engineering at its finest.