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12-04-2012, 10:44 PM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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Adding/understanding Propane Capacity
Considering a move from TT to Class A '08 Southwind 32VS Whorse 8.1. Propane capacity of 25gal. How does that equate to (2) 20# tanks? See some A ads with 80 gal. Great info on this site. Thank you, Rick
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12-04-2012, 11:20 PM
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Propane weighs about 4.4 #s/gal so 25 gallons would weigh approx. 110#'s.
A 20# tank has about 4.55 gallons.
Our tank is a 40 gallon/32 usable so it should weigh about 141#'s when full although it's welded to the MH frame so no way to weigh it. Luckily, here in WA they have to, by law, use a pump with a temperature/pressure compensating meter.
Unless you're looking at a Newell/Prevost MH I doubt that they have 80 gallons of propane. And in those units there may be no propane at all as a lot of them were built as all electric units.
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12-04-2012, 11:24 PM
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If the tank capacity is 25 gals., the propane capacity is 20 gals.
The tank can only be filled to 80% of the tank capacity. Like MrD said, propane weighs 4.4 #/gal.
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12-04-2012, 11:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob King
If the tank capacity is 25 gals., the propane capacity is 20 gals.
The tank can only be filled to 80% of the tank capacity. Like MrD said, propane weighs 4.4 #/gal.
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OP posted that the tank capacity was 25 gallons so I assumed that it was a 30 gallon (or so) filled with 25. You might be right but no way to tell til the OP comes back and corrects it.
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12-05-2012, 06:46 AM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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Capacity Should Be Ok
The 25gal appeared to come from mfg data so with the info you all provided we should be fine. Many thanks. Travel safe, R
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12-05-2012, 10:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ricknriver
The 25gal appeared to come from mfg data so with the info you all provided we should be fine. Many thanks. Travel safe, R
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Here's the brochure for the '08 Southwind (BTW, the 32V is one of my favorite models).
http://fleetwoodrv.com/frvlibrary/do.../2008_sw_b.pdf
The fine print states it has a 25 gallon tank, but only can be filled to 80% of that value (or 20 gallons).
Fran
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