I recently picked up a Dyna Glow 20,000 BTU wall heater. I would like to install it at a hunting cabin (400 sq feet). The question I have is if I hook it up to a 20 lb portable propane tank (outside with a line running into the cabin) do I need to use a regulator like a gas grill. I'm thinking I do but I have no experience with anything like this and since I bought it used it didn't come with a users manual so I thought I would check here.


Thanks,
Jim

On 7/27/2014 3:05 PM, wrote:
I recently picked up a Dyna Glow 20,000 BTU wall
heater. I would like to install it at a hunting
cabin (400 sq feet). The question I have is if
I hook it up to a 20 lb portable propane tank
(outside with a line running into the cabin) do
I need to use a regulator like a gas grill. I'm
thinking I do but I have no experience with anything
like this and since I bought it used it didn't come
with a users manual so I thought I would check here.


Thanks,
Jim

If you have a model number sticker, that information
"should" be on the web.

A pound of propane provides 21,500 BTU, so you can
plan on your 20# tank lasting 20 hours, or 15 hours
for Blue Rhino tanks.


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On 7/27/2014 3:05 PM, wrote:
I recently picked up a Dyna Glow 20,000 BTU wall heater. I would like to install it at a hunting cabin (400 sq feet). The question I have is if I hook it up to a 20 lb portable propane tank (outside with a line running into the cabin) do I need to use a regulator like a gas grill. I'm thinking I do but I have no experience with anything like this and since I bought it used it didn't come with a users manual so I thought I would check here.


Thanks,
Jim


If it does not have a regulator built in, it will need an external
regulator.

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:09:32 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 7/27/2014 3:05 PM, wrote:
I recently picked up a Dyna Glow 20,000 BTU wall heater. I would like to install it at a hunting cabin (400 sq feet). The question I have is if I hook it up to a 20 lb portable propane tank (outside with a line running into the cabin) do I need to use a regulator like a gas grill. I'm thinking I do but I have no experience with anything like this and since I bought it used it didn't come with a users manual so I thought I would check here.


Thanks,
Jim


If it does not have a regulator built in, it will need an external
regulator.

Wouldn't adding one need the correct PSI rating? For example, my
grill and my burner on a outdoor fryer, the regulators are rated at
"10 PSI".

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:22:31 -0700, Oren wrote:

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:09:32 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 7/27/2014 3:05 PM, wrote:
I recently picked up a Dyna Glow 20,000 BTU wall heater. I would like to install it at a hunting cabin (400 sq feet). The question I have is if I hook it up to a 20 lb portable propane tank (outside with a line running into the cabin) do I need to use a regulator like a gas grill. I'm thinking I do but I have no experience with anything like this and since I bought it used it didn't come with a users manual so I thought I would check here.


Thanks,
Jim


If it does not have a regulator built in, it will need an external
regulator.

Wouldn't adding one need the correct PSI rating? For example, my
grill and my burner on a outdoor fryer, the regulators are rated at
"10 PSI".

With few exceptions, 10 psi is the standard. There are some
adjustable for high output to 30 psi.

On 7/27/2014 9:09 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If it does not have a regulator built in, it will need an external
regulator.

He'd probably get more BTU without the regulator.
Might not be UL approved, though.

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On Monday, July 28, 2014 6:57:27 AM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 7/27/2014 9:09 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:



If it does not have a regulator built in, it will need an external

regulator.



He'd probably get more BTU without the regulator.

Might not be UL approved, though.



The other issue is whether the heater is designed to run on propane
or nat gas? If Ed's 10 PSI is correct, that's about 3x the pressure of
nat gas. Without modification, I don't think the heater is going to
be happy with the higher pressure.

On 7/28/2014 8:19 AM, trader_4 wrote:

The other issue is whether the heater is designed to run on propane
or nat gas? If Ed's 10 PSI is correct, that's about 3x the pressure of
nat gas. Without modification, I don't think the heater is going to
be happy with the higher pressure.

Last I checked, propane was typically 11 inches water
column, natural gas is 3.5 inches. 10 PSI would be a
bit more then either of those.

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On Monday, July 28, 2014 8:29:58 AM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 7/28/2014 8:19 AM, trader_4 wrote:



The other issue is whether the heater is designed to run on propane

or nat gas? If Ed's 10 PSI is correct, that's about 3x the pressure of

nat gas. Without modification, I don't think the heater is going to

be happy with the higher pressure.



Last I checked, propane was typically 11 inches water

column, natural gas is 3.5 inches. 10 PSI would be a

bit more then either of those.



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Aye Carumba, you're right! Ed must have meant water column, not PSI and I
didn't catch it. So, the pressure units are as you say. But he's still
left with the issue that the pressures are different and frequently something
designed to be run on nat gas will require modification if it's going to
be run on propane. He needs to determine what fuel the heater is designed
to use. As you suggested, a good place to start would be finding the manual.

On 7/28/2014 8:42 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Monday, July 28, 2014 8:29:58 AM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote:
Last I checked, propane was typically 11 inches water
column, natural gas is 3.5 inches. 10 PSI would be a
bit more then either of those.


Aye Carumba, you're right! Ed must have meant water column, not PSI and I
didn't catch it. So, the pressure units are as you say. But he's still
left with the issue that the pressures are different and frequently something
designed to be run on nat gas will require modification if it's going to
be run on propane. He needs to determine what fuel the heater is designed
to use. As you suggested, a good place to start would be finding the manual.


Inches, pounds, bleens, microfleems. It's all
so confusing....

Ask for the butcher for a pound of beef, and
he sets the scale for microfleems, and then
I get home and find the recipe asked for two
bleens.

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It is designed to run on propane.



The other issue is whether the heater is designed to run on propane

or nat gas? If Ed's 10 PSI is correct, that's about 3x the pressure of

nat gas. Without modification, I don't think the heater is going to

be happy with the higher pressure.