- Feb 24, 2013
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Morning all, there are regular threads from folk worried about gas consumption, I am one of those who wonder / worry, so
We have refillable cylinders, 2 large (12kg I think) they take about 22 litres each
I refilled about a month ago, we then put MH into garage for the turbo work and I forgot to turn fridge off auto, so it sat with them for 10 nights running on gas
when fixed we went away for one night in UK, cold and wet heating on all the time, although turned down at night
The set off for France, I debated refilling and decided we didn't need to, then got to France and realised I have not put gas adaptor in that I bought for the trip
Our system depends on manual changeover, literally like an od fashioned calor system, move the hose from one cylinder to the other, I quite like it that way as I know for sure one is empty
I managed to convince myself after being away in France for 9 nights now that the cylinders are actually interlinked and I am actually drawing from both, we have had 3 nights on sites with hook up, the rest without and it has been really cold, rarely above 10C
Thank you again Andy @Techno for the reassurance by PM that was impossible
With an Alde system, with ours once on it runs the hot water whether you need it or not, so we have had virtually 100% hot water on, and heating most days, plus cooking in on hob and oven on roughly half the nights
So after a total of 8 nights off hook up, it waited till it was snowing and -2C to stop at 04:00 this morning, impressed with how long it ran for, not at all with the timing, our Alde flashes when no gas, so had to get up to turn that off, by 08:00 it was down to 9C inside -2C outside but not snowing, so went out to swap over
Hope that helps reassure those that travel in warmer times you are unlikely to need to refill, if you start with full cylinders, even if Calor and not refillable
We have refillable cylinders, 2 large (12kg I think) they take about 22 litres each
I refilled about a month ago, we then put MH into garage for the turbo work and I forgot to turn fridge off auto, so it sat with them for 10 nights running on gas
when fixed we went away for one night in UK, cold and wet heating on all the time, although turned down at night
The set off for France, I debated refilling and decided we didn't need to, then got to France and realised I have not put gas adaptor in that I bought for the trip
Our system depends on manual changeover, literally like an od fashioned calor system, move the hose from one cylinder to the other, I quite like it that way as I know for sure one is empty
I managed to convince myself after being away in France for 9 nights now that the cylinders are actually interlinked and I am actually drawing from both, we have had 3 nights on sites with hook up, the rest without and it has been really cold, rarely above 10C
Thank you again Andy @Techno for the reassurance by PM that was impossible
With an Alde system, with ours once on it runs the hot water whether you need it or not, so we have had virtually 100% hot water on, and heating most days, plus cooking in on hob and oven on roughly half the nights
So after a total of 8 nights off hook up, it waited till it was snowing and -2C to stop at 04:00 this morning, impressed with how long it ran for, not at all with the timing, our Alde flashes when no gas, so had to get up to turn that off, by 08:00 it was down to 9C inside -2C outside but not snowing, so went out to swap over
Hope that helps reassure those that travel in warmer times you are unlikely to need to refill, if you start with full cylinders, even if Calor and not refillable