I have recently bought my first motorhome, a French Chausson 610 and have a bit of an issue concerning the gas supply. The Chausson has a gas bottle compartment "designed" to take a French 13 kg bottle, which attaches to the onboard regulator and hose via a simple screw thread connector.
My problem is twofold. Firstly, it is difficult to get a 13 kg bottle into the compartment through the small access door and virtually impossible to lift it out whilst it still contains much gas. Hopefully when the gas is used up I'll be able to do so. Secondly, the compartment only holds the one bottle and so I have no spare for when the gas suddenly does run out.
I would like to use smaller propane bottles so that they will fit easier and allow me to carry a spare in the garage, but the smaller bottles will not connect directly to the existing hose and all seem to require a push fit regulator. I understand you cannot have 2 regulators on the supply and so this would seem not to be possible, other than by removing the onboard reguator.
Can anyone offer any advice on this. BTW, I am in France and so British bottles are not an option for me.
My problem is twofold. Firstly, it is difficult to get a 13 kg bottle into the compartment through the small access door and virtually impossible to lift it out whilst it still contains much gas. Hopefully when the gas is used up I'll be able to do so. Secondly, the compartment only holds the one bottle and so I have no spare for when the gas suddenly does run out.
I would like to use smaller propane bottles so that they will fit easier and allow me to carry a spare in the garage, but the smaller bottles will not connect directly to the existing hose and all seem to require a push fit regulator. I understand you cannot have 2 regulators on the supply and so this would seem not to be possible, other than by removing the onboard reguator.
Can anyone offer any advice on this. BTW, I am in France and so British bottles are not an option for me.