While traveling across the desert southwest during a heat wave two weeks ago, I experienced a propane problem I had never heard of.
It had been well above 100 degrees each day and I tried to get propane one afternoon but it refused to flow into my MH tank. I figured the attendant wasn't doing it right but when I tried in a different town the next evening, the same thing happened.
This worried me as I was traveling each day and the fridge and freezer were full of food. I went to the propane distributor for advice and found the manager working late. He explained that in such high heat, the RV tank builds up pressure so the propane dealer source tank thinks it's full and won't pump against this pressure.
He told me to try again in the morning when it had cooled overnight and he was right, it worked normally then, at the same station I had tried unsuccessfully when hot.
He said I could also probably open my vent and let some pressure out for 30 seconds or so and hopefully that would do it, even in the heat. I did not need to try that trick.
It had been well above 100 degrees each day and I tried to get propane one afternoon but it refused to flow into my MH tank. I figured the attendant wasn't doing it right but when I tried in a different town the next evening, the same thing happened.
This worried me as I was traveling each day and the fridge and freezer were full of food. I went to the propane distributor for advice and found the manager working late. He explained that in such high heat, the RV tank builds up pressure so the propane dealer source tank thinks it's full and won't pump against this pressure.
He told me to try again in the morning when it had cooled overnight and he was right, it worked normally then, at the same station I had tried unsuccessfully when hot.
He said I could also probably open my vent and let some pressure out for 30 seconds or so and hopefully that would do it, even in the heat. I did not need to try that trick.
