robthreedee
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Well that didn't take long.
I walked outside and heard a hissing from valve in the red circle. I shut the gas off and when I removed the coupling there was gas leaking from the valve the wires are attached to in the red circle. I'm guessing the auxiliary tank was pushing gas into the main tank and then started pushing it back out. So the electric shut off is malfunctioning. I closed the manual valve you see in the red circle and the hissing stopped.
Obviously I'm gonna have that replaced no question about that!!!!!.........But in the meant time, I'm guessing shutting that valve will seperate the main tank from everything else (more reliable than the emergency shut off switch) or can I just hook up the aux tank directly to the regulator? Idealy wouldn't this be fine and dandy anyway because I'll be by-passing the T and leaving everything out of the equation except gas to regulator to appliances? I have no need for the main tank anyway. I have two aux propane tanks.
Thanks,
Rob
I walked outside and heard a hissing from valve in the red circle. I shut the gas off and when I removed the coupling there was gas leaking from the valve the wires are attached to in the red circle. I'm guessing the auxiliary tank was pushing gas into the main tank and then started pushing it back out. So the electric shut off is malfunctioning. I closed the manual valve you see in the red circle and the hissing stopped.
Obviously I'm gonna have that replaced no question about that!!!!!.........But in the meant time, I'm guessing shutting that valve will seperate the main tank from everything else (more reliable than the emergency shut off switch) or can I just hook up the aux tank directly to the regulator? Idealy wouldn't this be fine and dandy anyway because I'll be by-passing the T and leaving everything out of the equation except gas to regulator to appliances? I have no need for the main tank anyway. I have two aux propane tanks.
Thanks,
Rob