In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Newshound wrote:


Not sure I agree. I converted a camping cooker once from butane to
propane (or perhaps the other way round) by changing the jets, but
this didn't have a regulator.

That would have been a high pressure cooker, designed to run straight off a
bottle. Patio heaters are designed to run at 37 mB, using a regulator.

To a first approximation I would expect
propane and butane to burn OK at the same pressure in a patio heater,
although it does depend a bit on the jet and burner design. Suck it
and see.

Butane regulators are a slightly different pressure (I forget what it is -
35?) - but caravan appliances will run happily on either, so I imagine that
a patio heater will work ok on butane as long as the regulator can deliver
sufficient flow to keep up with the 10kW (or whatever) consumption. As I
said in an earlier post, butane is pretty useless this time of year, but ok
for the summer.
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Cheers,
Roger
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