Gaslo advice needed (1 Viewer)

[Hilary.B]

Recently started using moho again after death of husband. He managed everything technical. I have the 2 cylinder Gaslo system with guages to say full etc on each tank. Plus a whirly looking red and green thing in the middle. I went yesterday to fill the bottles for the first time (scarey!!)
It went OK but only filled one of the bottles.
What did I do wrong please? I had the yellow switch to the moho switched off and both cylinders switched off.

 

[Popeye]

I imagine both cylinders would need to be switched on in order to fill them, my two are on permanently and they both fill.

Sad to hear of your loss, at the same time great to hear you will continue with the motor home. There are a lot in your situation in this club.

Welcome to the best motorhome club in the world..

Griff

 

[Lenny HB]

Nothing, both cylinders should fill automatically, may be just the inaccuracy of the gauges giving a false reading they are probably both full if you waited for the pump to cut off.

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[funflair]

On the face of it I would say you have done it all OK,

You turned the bottles off to fill

The red/green whirly thing is the changeover valve and may or may not be automatic.

You say that you have only filled one bottle, have you opened both bottle valves as the gauge works with the bottle open I believe.

Martin

 

[irnbru]

I have no idea Hilary but Welcome to fun and good on you getting out and about on your own. Sorry to hear about your loss.

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[funflair]

I imagine both cylinders would need to be switched on in order to fill them, my two are on permanently and they both fill.

Sad to hear of your loss, at the same time great to hear you will continue with the motor home. There are a lot in your situation in this club.

Welcome to the best motorhome club in the world..

Griff

Turn them off Griff, the argument I heard was that the filling pressure could be too high for the regulators. Makes sense.

Martin

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[Hilary.B]

Yes I waited for the pump to click off. The guage on one says full and the other still says empty. I can't remember how much I put in but it cost me £34 pounds.

 

[funflair]

@Hilary.B do you know how much you put in and what size you bottles are, for example if they a re 11kg bottles and are empty you would expect to put in about 45litres of gas, yes the bottles are kg and the pump is in litres, just to make it easy for you

Martin

 

[funflair]

Yes I waited for the pump to click off. The guage on one says full and the other still says empty. I can't remember how much I put in but it cost me £34 pounds.

I would say you are full and have the large 11kg bottles and you paid about 65 or 68 pence per litre.

Martin

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[irnbru]

I would think at £34 they will both be fill. We have 2x 6kg and £14 or so fills ours.

 

[KeithChesterfield]

They are almost certainly full.

Bottle valves open or shut doesn't seem to matter when filling and manual or automatic changeover valves both operate the same way when being filled.

The gauges are a pain in the arse and should be taken with a pinch of salt.

If they work at all it may be that after a few hours, or days, they will both show full - hitting them with a hammer (soft or otherwise) is a temptation but should be resisted.

My 11kg Gaslow bottle hold just over 21 litres of gas each, total 42 litres, and what you've paid equates to both of yours being full.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

You probably paid 75p per litre which is the top price ,but sounds as if both bottles are full. Best to switch off both bottles when u fill to save any excess pressure on the regulator.i would switch off the tank you thought was full and use the one you think is empty. The gauge may be stuck after not being used for some time. I wouldn't worry about it, just use it.

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[TerryL]

As above. On our current trip despite knowing both bottles were full, one was "showing" partly empty. When I started to use it, it went to full.

Gaslow advise you turn bottles off when refilling but it doesn't seem to make any difference, I usually leave mine on. But it is important to stop trying to fill when the pump slows right down, it's the bottle 80% limiter cutting in.

 

[autorouter]

But it is important to stop trying to fill when the pump slows right down, it's the bottle 80% limiter cutting in.

I never do that, and I've never seen anyone else do it either.

The bottle's limiter limits the filling to 80%. It does it on its own, automatically. You can leave the pump going until it stops.

 

[Minxy]

You should always turn off the bottles when filling simply because there is a chance, albeit slim, that liquid gas could get up into the regulator and it would then be stuffed, so just turn them off when filling to avoid this issue.

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[Silver-Fox]

 

[Lenny HB]

Gaslow advise you turn bottles off when refilling but it doesn't seem to make any difference, I usually leave mine on. But it is important to stop trying to fill when the pump slows right down, it's the bottle 80% limiter cutting in.

Truma bulkhead regulators have a max inlet pressure of 230psi, pump filling pressure is around 140psi, don't know what the limits are on other types of regulator. IMO not worth the risk of filling with the the bottles on at £130 for a new regulator.

 

[Hilary.B]

Thank you everyone. Yes they are the very large gaslo cylinders. what is the whirly thing between the cylinders please and what do I do with it?

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[Lenny HB]

A photo would help but sounds like a changeover valve.

 

[Hilary.B]

Yes, I think that is what it is. it is circular with red and green sections. the back of it rotates to left and right but `i don't know what to do with it.

 

[trophychap]

Its in all probability an auto changeover valve, you don't need to touch it it will change from an empty bottle to a full one on its own.

If you want to check whether it is an auto or a manual one just turn it anti clockwise for example then open one bottle, then close that one and open the other it should then change from red to green or visa versa. If it doesn't then its a manual one and you will have to change bottles yourself, just turn the knob in the center of the valve. As far as the gauges go mine often still shows one bottle as empty when I fill up, and then when we get to our destination and open the locker to turn the gas on it will show as full.

Due to the 80% cut off the gauges will still show full until they are below 75%, they are optimistic at best!

HTH.

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[Lenny HB]

It selects which gas cylinder to use, fully turned say clockwise it selects the cinder that the gas hose on that side is connected to. Turn anti clock and it selects the other cylinder.
If it is the auto version you select which cylinder you want as the primary one, this one will be used first.

 

[WynandJean]

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[Lenny HB]

Auto changeover valve.

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[Minxy]

From the description given I think it's one of these:

 

[Hilary.B]

Yes that is it. but what do I do with it? and what do the colours mean please?

 

[two]

The ‘outside pointer’ points to the cylinder it should be taking gas from. While that cylinder has gas in it the windows will show green. They will turn red when the cylinder being pointed to has run out of gas and it has (automatically) switched to taking gas from the other cylinder.

You don’t need to do anything with it but it is a useful to indicate when a cylinder has become empty. If both cylinders are open, you need to fill up when the windows have gone red. While it’s green you have one full cylinder and another that is not yet empty.

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[Hilary.B]

That is wonderful, thank you soooo much. I really wish that I had listened when my late husband described things but I just let it go over my head never thinking that he wouldn't be around for ever.
That's a lesson to everyone else.. You need to listen when your other half speaks lol

 

[sedge]

Noooooooooooooooo - he'll want to tell me how to empty the loo cassette !! LOL (I do actually know, but don't regard it as my job LOL)

 

[Lenny HB]

Noooooooooooooooo - he'll want to tell me how to empty the loo cassette !! LOL (I do actually know, but don't regard it as my job LOL)

SWMBO leant the hard way last year in Germany I was relaxing in bed with food poisoning. ( well certain bits of me were relaxing).

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