Just when we thought we had it fettled, we're stuck on a site in France with no gas!
Our Bailey 620 Approach was sold to us with a red propane 13kg gas bottle. It worked. We knew that, in France, we'd need a different pigtail to fit their propane or butane bottle. We opted for a butane 13kg and got a pig tail that fitted both the new bottle and the bulkhead regulator which is A Truma MonoControl CS safety gas regulator ("the Truma").
We hooked it all up and it worked. We could use the cooker, the fridge and hot water. So, we set off and at the first site, a free aire, we tried to use gas to power the fridge etc. Guess what? No gas. Turned it on and off, gently tapped the regulator with a screw driver handle (in case it was a sticking bearing valve (which we've had on the bottle regulator at home) but no joy.
Unscrewing the pigtail(€37) from the Truma, there was clearly gas leaving the bottle. So attention has shifted to the Truma. The original pigtail has a green rupture protection button. The new pigtail doesn't. No one has ever suggested that the new pigtail to fit the French bottle needed to have this hose rupture protection system. In other words, unless I'm mistaken, you can only use Truma pigtails with this hose rupture button on any bottles of any description. That being the case, I wonder whether we will be able to source a Truma pigtail that works on our van here in France.
On a number of posts I'd seen Truma jokingly (I thought) called Trauma. Now I know it wasn't a joke! And as for Bailey supplying a system so out of kilter with the rest of the world. We asked Dutch, German and French monomers here if the' seen anything lime this and none of them had such a pigtail (high pressure hose with rupture protection. I feel I'm being fleeced by having to buy exotic and no doubt hugely expensive Truma pigtails that no one else seems to need or want.
I do not understand why it worked when we first connected it up (we lit the fridge, the cooker) but now it doesn't work. And, as I posted earlier, the gas bottle provides gas if you disconnect the pigtail from the Turma, so we know there is a gas.
Any suggestions gratefully received. We've moved to a pay site so we can at least have hook up for the fridge and cook with the microwave but this is expensive and not what we wanted.
Thanks.
Our Bailey 620 Approach was sold to us with a red propane 13kg gas bottle. It worked. We knew that, in France, we'd need a different pigtail to fit their propane or butane bottle. We opted for a butane 13kg and got a pig tail that fitted both the new bottle and the bulkhead regulator which is A Truma MonoControl CS safety gas regulator ("the Truma").
We hooked it all up and it worked. We could use the cooker, the fridge and hot water. So, we set off and at the first site, a free aire, we tried to use gas to power the fridge etc. Guess what? No gas. Turned it on and off, gently tapped the regulator with a screw driver handle (in case it was a sticking bearing valve (which we've had on the bottle regulator at home) but no joy.
Unscrewing the pigtail(€37) from the Truma, there was clearly gas leaving the bottle. So attention has shifted to the Truma. The original pigtail has a green rupture protection button. The new pigtail doesn't. No one has ever suggested that the new pigtail to fit the French bottle needed to have this hose rupture protection system. In other words, unless I'm mistaken, you can only use Truma pigtails with this hose rupture button on any bottles of any description. That being the case, I wonder whether we will be able to source a Truma pigtail that works on our van here in France.
On a number of posts I'd seen Truma jokingly (I thought) called Trauma. Now I know it wasn't a joke! And as for Bailey supplying a system so out of kilter with the rest of the world. We asked Dutch, German and French monomers here if the' seen anything lime this and none of them had such a pigtail (high pressure hose with rupture protection. I feel I'm being fleeced by having to buy exotic and no doubt hugely expensive Truma pigtails that no one else seems to need or want.
I do not understand why it worked when we first connected it up (we lit the fridge, the cooker) but now it doesn't work. And, as I posted earlier, the gas bottle provides gas if you disconnect the pigtail from the Turma, so we know there is a gas.
Any suggestions gratefully received. We've moved to a pay site so we can at least have hook up for the fridge and cook with the microwave but this is expensive and not what we wanted.
Thanks.