What are these gas fittings called and can they be got in the UK?

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Hi there, My Zodi heater arrived from e bay yesterday. I plan to have it free standing in the cockpit when I'm down on the boat over winter with the pipes running into the cabin. I want to alter it so that it can run off the boat gas system. I'm trying with little success to track down an adaptor such as this one
http://www.ajprindle.com/products.aspx?s...YULv7m1d2kPW04_
does anyone know the name of the adaptors for easier web searching? They attatch US propane disposable cylinders to a larger tank

thanks for any help.

J
 
First comment is that your boat system is low pressure, via a regulator, but your Zodi is high pressure designed to run directly off a cartridge with no regulator.

It would fly in the face of all recommendations to pipe high pressure gas into the cabin, or to bring a cylinder into the cabin to connect up with a hose. All the high pressure components should be in the gas locker. Having said that though appliances that attach directly to a cylinder or cartridge can be used.

So the answer is to use your Zodi as intended unless you can find a suitable adaptor that will allow it to be connected directly to a cylinder. Try Coleman stockists or maybe Calor.

If you are foolish enough to go for a hose always turn the gas off at the cylinder and allow that trapped in the hose to burn off before shutting the appliance valve. The reason being that with temperature fluctuations you can get liquid condensing in the connecting hose etc which causes big flare ups when you next light the appliance (Advice printed on a Tilley high pressure camping stove and based on experiences when camping with a hp stove)
 
Sorry missed the fact that you will be siting it in the cockpit. I assumed it would be in the cabin. Forgotten how it worked but I remember your previous post now!


Anyway you won't, I hope, have a high pressure supply in the cabin so thats not where you'll run the supply from. It'll have to come directly from your (propane) cylinder but it will be against the requirements of the Boat Safety Scheme to keep all high pressure components within in the gas locker.

If you opt for a separate bottle connected with one of these hoses make sure its located where any leakage will go safely overboard and not into the cockpit along with the Zodi!

Still not helping with a source for the hose. Sorry. Coleman stockists or Calor maybe.
 
Can't help with the pipework but it is interesting that you have managed to buy one as Camptech, one of the two named UK suppliers, are still saying on their site that Zodi products do not yet have CE approval.
I was wondering why not.
 
Very pleased with a Mr Buddy portable heater which is self-contained with Coleman propane cartridges or, more economically,with a temporary hose to the propane cylinder in the gas locker. I changed the system from butane to propane just for this, and the cooker hasn't realised it yet!
The heater is CE approved, with both tilt and flame-failure devices, but soon rusted in a marine environment. Hasn't stopped working tho'.
 
the picture is not very clear, but from your description and what can bee seen, its the standard US propane (high pressure) fitting. Its rather ugly and big. You need a 3/8" Flare to 3/8" converter. Google it, you may find one in the Uk, as a last resort you can order it from West Marine in the US.

Peter
 
If using image tags you've got to link to a picture in an acceptable format eg .jpg You have put in the url of a webpage, or at least you did before you edited it.

Is this what you were trying to show
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The first item on the page
 
Thanks for that, I had not even thought about the high pressure vs low pressure issue. I love this forum. Actually , currently there is no gas on the boat as I run a paraffin stove!
 
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currently there is no gas on the boat as I run a paraffin stove

[/ QUOTE ] Modify the Zodi to fit on top of a Primus stove then!
 
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