{"id":399,"date":"2023-03-10T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/?p=399"},"modified":"2023-03-10T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T11:24:11","slug":"propane-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/propane-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Propane setup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like many Casita owners, we soon realized that cooking outside with a Blackstone Griddle<\/a> is more pleasant than using the stove inside the trailer. Many (most?) Casita owners opt for the 17-inch model. We got the 22-inch because I was stupid and ordered it by mistake, and it was too much hassle to return. It’s a little on the heavy side but manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To power the grill, we connect it to our propane tanks. Some owners tap the low-pressure propane — the lines downstream of the regulator. It’s my understanding the Spirit and Freedom models have an available port on the four-way connector under the front of the trailer, but they are all in use in our Liberty and the Independence models. I did not want to mess with putting a tee in the low-pressure line, so I opted for a no-cutting solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I purchased a tee-connection<\/a> from Amazon. In order to get the hose to reach, I measured as best I could and estimate I would need a 24-inch pigtail<\/a>. Which was wrong in the right way — 22-inch would have been better, but better too long than too short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Tee
Tee connection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Tee
Cover fits with a little finesse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Installing the tee just required wrenches and yellow propane-rated teflon tape I bought at a hardware store. As you can see, it only taps off one tank, so we that tank goes dry, I physically swap the tanks, so the full one is on the drive side of the trailer. In hindsight, the tee should be on the passenger side, and I might get around to fixing it someday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Propane in use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many Casita owners, we soon realized that cooking outside with a Blackstone Griddle is more pleasant than using the stove inside the trailer. Many (most?) Casita owners opt for the 17-inch model. We got the 22-inch because I was stupid and ordered it by mistake, and it was too much hassle to return. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[16,12],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-setup","tag-hotel","tag-setup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardweatherby.org\/camping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}