I have been thinking about installing a remote gas hook-up for an outside barbecue . While trying to figure a place to install a fitting down stream of the regulator I found a valve and fitting already installed. What a company. I'm also thinking about a fitting inside the coach to hook up a portable ceramic gas heater so I won't have to run the furnace and run down the battery. Have any of you ever done that?

The outside barbeque connected by a quick coupler to the exterior fitting is real nice -- I have used mine lots of times.

BUT an inside fitting for a portable appliance would really scare me. Propane is EXPLOSIVE. Add another battery; a LOT safer.

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Gary & Edie
North Idaho
1988 28' P-30 454

Dennis, I know people who use a portable heater on a propane bottle, and I have a friend who's gone through three RVs in which he has made permanent installations of ceramic heaters. Must be a common practice, they sell a lot of those heaters at the swap meets in AZ, in the winter.

Unvented ceramic heaters are ostensibly safe in RVs, and many swear by them, but we stayed one winter in our friend's rig, and I developed a terrific sinus infection for no apparent reason. Then I read in article in Popular Science, which noted that some people are affected by unvented ceramic heaters as I was. My friend and his wife, and my wife too, are not bothered that way. - Just something to watch out for.

When I installed my barbeque hook up downstream of the regulator, the que would not work. Turns out that the propane being already regulated was so low in pressure that it could not get throught the barbeque regulator. Had to plumb in before the rv regulator. Works fine.

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