Now this puzzled me at the time, and with torrential rain outside keeping me confined my brain is still niggling away at the matter.
After Eddie's VanBitz sorted out my leaking filler hose yesterday, they filled up the bottles with LPG for me. Now both bottles are 11kg and both gauges were showing right down in the red, which tallied with my recent gas usage. I was therefore expecting a fill of around 35-40 litres. However the fill was only 16 litres - less than half of what I was expecting. I queried this but was told that they had filled till the automatic cut-off operated - and I have no reason to doubt them.
Both bottle-neck gauges were showing hard against the green sector after the fill, although after the drive back one (or possibly both of them, it's difficult to be sure with those gauges) seems to have moved slightly away from that position. I have checked the level with the inline Gaslow gauge (gas in use) and it stays full green. But from what I remember of using that gauge before, it only moves off green when the gas is almost gone anyway.
So now I'm wondering if the problem with the filler hose leaking has resulted in the (possible) early operation of the automatic cut-off, in one or maybe both bottles? Could air maybe have been sucked into the bottles - would that do it? I've tried ringing Eddie to ask but just get the answerphone. Still, it is the weekend and he's allowed some time off.
So does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? :Confused:
After Eddie's VanBitz sorted out my leaking filler hose yesterday, they filled up the bottles with LPG for me. Now both bottles are 11kg and both gauges were showing right down in the red, which tallied with my recent gas usage. I was therefore expecting a fill of around 35-40 litres. However the fill was only 16 litres - less than half of what I was expecting. I queried this but was told that they had filled till the automatic cut-off operated - and I have no reason to doubt them.
Both bottle-neck gauges were showing hard against the green sector after the fill, although after the drive back one (or possibly both of them, it's difficult to be sure with those gauges) seems to have moved slightly away from that position. I have checked the level with the inline Gaslow gauge (gas in use) and it stays full green. But from what I remember of using that gauge before, it only moves off green when the gas is almost gone anyway.
So now I'm wondering if the problem with the filler hose leaking has resulted in the (possible) early operation of the automatic cut-off, in one or maybe both bottles? Could air maybe have been sucked into the bottles - would that do it? I've tried ringing Eddie to ask but just get the answerphone. Still, it is the weekend and he's allowed some time off.
So does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? :Confused: