Replacing outside HP stove with an RVQ

[harleywolf]

The

[austinado16]

Rick my understanding is that everything in the camper is low pressure....fridge/stove/waterheater......and that just the outside stove on the later campers is high pressure so they cook good outside in the wind.

So, crawl under that badboy and figure out where your low pressure stuff gets it's gas from, and tap in.  Really easy to do.

Seems like many PUP's have dual propane tanks, one for low and one for high pressure, but maybe yours is just running a single tank with a high pressure regulator right at the tank and then a secondary low pressure regulator down stream ahead of the fridge/stove/waterheater.

[harleywolf]

Yup I was wondering that myself. If in fact the only reason the HP reg is on the Pup in the 1st place is to run the outside stove then I could just eliminate it all together. I need to take a closer look like you say. At a glance it

[austinado16]

Ya, maybe you could just take the HP regulator out.  Will the dealer take back the RVQ?  I think it was on here that I read some (or many) people don't like them because they wind up being messy, hard to clean, etc.  Maybe search the archives and see if you can find out more.  One of the portable Webers might be a better way to go?

The local RV place told me my 20lb LP tank would power my fridge for a month, so you could go a long time with just one tank, even with a water heater I'll bet.

[harleywolf]

Yea I did read here where someone said the grill got nasty and didn

[mike4947]

Both High and Low pressure RVQ BBQ's are made by the company. Most dealer only stock the low pressure version (the one with quick disconnect coupler, not screw on threads) as the high preesure side connection (noted by the screw thread connector are only a a few rare trailer compared to the number of RV's produced. They both have the same BTU burner ratings.
I'd haunt a part counter where the person was willing to dig out the catalog and order the stove you want and exchange it for the non functional in your application stove.
Retrofitting a low preessure stove to high pressure means finding a dealer that will have to find out if anything outside of the gas orifice and connection fitting needs to be changed, but it'll mean he/she needs that same catalog that lists both the high and low pressure stoves....LOL

[harleywolf]

I had the conversation with our dealer about the type of connection I have so they could order the right product in the 1st place. I have the threaded fitting for high pressure and we determined this together before they ordered the Q. The hose they gave me has a threaded end and a quick connect end

[harleywolf]

So I found this info from another PUP site:

[mike4947]

Rick, I hate to say it especially after I have installed a high pressure RVQ on a camper, but I couldn't find the OEM company on the web or anyone showing the high pressure version.
The one I installed came from an individual off of Ebay that the buyer had me come over to figure out why he hooked it up to a low pressure quick disconnect port and it would only light with "tiny" flames off the burner. We used the basic "fleetwood" setup with a single staged regulator plumbed off before the basic two stage regulator and screw on disconnects and hose to get the high pressure the stove needed.
I called him first thing this morning and he said (and jogged my memory) that the original owner had no idea where the stove came from; as we called him back when the "problem" came up.
If you can't find one your idea of replumbing the connection after the on board regulator to get low pressure to that line is a good one. Just mark the connector on the trailer so folks will know that that screw connection is low pressure, or replace the end with a true quick disconnect low pressure fitting.

[austinado16]

So.......cap off that HP outlet in the regulator, put a brass "T" in low pressure end of the regulator, hook the camper's original low pressure line back up, and to the other side of the "T" hook up the camper's old HP line.

Then out at the other end of the high pressure line, install a nice MB Sturgis quick coupler (the female coupler) and one of their male quick coupler nipples on the RVQ's body, or on the hose coming from the RVQ, whichever you're has.

That should be simple, quick, and inexpensive.

I just replaced the quick couplers on my Nova because it didn't come with it's stove and I found a stove from an earlier model.  The male fitting was $5 and the 2 quick couplers with on/off ball valves built in were $20ea and that was from Starcraft.  The big local propane place wanted $35 for just the male and on matching quick coupler.

UPDATE:
Just talked to "Bill" at MB Sturgis.  Their male fitting is $6 and the "Model 250" quick couplers with ball valves built in are $26.  The quickcouplers that I got from Starcraft are not MB Sturgis brand and I don't like them as much as I like the original MB Sturgis that came on my PUP, or that I see on the MB Sturgis website.

[harleywolf]

Yea Mike I could not find a HP RVQ during my research either, at least on the net. I haven

[LimeJeeeep]

i have never heard of hp LP being run in a PUP.i also did not want to grill food right next to the window....i purchased a kit that goes between the regulator and LP tank with a 12' gas HP gas line and i can buy my own grill, stove lamp or what ever other LP appliance i want ...something to consider when running a high pressure LP line is that if it developes a leak it will wipe out a tank in a heart beat .the less HP LP LINE run through the PUP the better IMHO :U

[austinado16]

Harry, you might like the HP outside stove better than a low pressure version.  We've got the low pressure version that can function inside or outside.  It's pretty normal to cook on inside, but outside, if there's any sort of breeze, it's pretty lame and slow cooking. Eventhough it has big side panels and the tall back panel, the wind gets in there and blows the flame down, or sideways and you just wait....and wait.....and wait.....for it to cook something.

You might want to consider all your options and maybe you'll decide you'd rather have a cook stove on the outside and a seperat BBQ grill functioning at the same time?

I know this past weekend, I was grilling chicken on the little "Weber Go Anywhere" propane grille (uses the little seperate $3 propane tanks) and had the cook stove outside on the side of the camper cooking mac-n-cheese, and the rest of the meal.  Did the same with steaks the next night and it was nice to have both running outside at the same time (no heat or smell inside the PUP).

Just food for thought......or should I say, thought for food?

[mike4947]

Todd, the wimpy performance for the in/out stove isn't due to a low pressure connection but more to a insulation/flammability issue.
Remember the furnance (18K BTU) and water heater (20K BTU) both operate off the low pressure.
The stove burners on any inside use stove are limited to usually 4K BTU due to it's proxcimity to yard and yards of flammable vinyl and fabric.
And yes I know that when mounted outside a stove is really just as close to the fabric as it is inside but outside there's no standard so they can use a higher BTU burner (either low or high pressure)....Go figure.

[austinado16]

I guess instead of "low pressure" stove, I should say, low output stove because you're right, that's exactly what's going on.  Those big ol' slots in the burners just let the propane "fall" out and instead of a nice crisp tight flame, it's more like a group of match heads.......sure the flame is blue, but it's just got no heat ouput.