Dan: Lots of folks in more rural areas heat with propane as Michael has pointed out. What can happen in cold weather is that ice will form on the outside of a tank if a tank is being emptied too quickly. It's a viscious circle, and the lower the level of propane in a tank, the thicker the ice can become under some conditions. If say, you had a 500,000 BTU space heater operating off of one 100 lb cylinder and the temps were say, below 20, you'd likely have icing, and eventually the heater would quit. We used to gang two or more tanks together so that the surface area was larger and the draw slower by half, and that helped in most cases. If memory serves, propane boils at -40 so at temps lower than that, you'd have to heat it somehow. A 500 gallon tank is so large that I doubt icing would be a problem, particularly if it were burried.
Probably more than you needed to know. Bill Stephan Kansas Citty MO Email: [email protected] Phone: (816)803-2469 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:24 am Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wireless bad thing detectors. > HMM, you learn something every day. I didn't think propane would > be a > good heating source for a hole house. Everywhere I've lived, you > either > heated with natural gas or fuel oil. > > So, when you heat with propane, are the tanks inside the house? I > mean, > doesn't propane have issues if it gets too cold? I mean, doesn't > it start > to have problems vaporizing? > > Anyway, here are the make and models of my alarms. > > First Alert SCO501CN-3ST ONELINK Battery Operated Combination > Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm with Voice Location $69 > First Alert SA511CN2-3ST ONELINK Wireless Battery Operated Smoke > Alarm with Voice Location, 2-Pack $89 > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 >
