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"Tim Downie" writes:
At present my gas barbecue is positioned just feet away from a mains gas
supply inside the house. T'would be the work of a moment to tap into the
mains but is it worth it?

I rather suspect that I wouldn't be able to re-jet my present one (although
it would be nice if I could) but I was wondering if anyone has any
experience of mains gas barbecues.

While I'm at it (and bearing in mind the withdrawal of incandescent bulbs)
how about some nice gas lights? Anyone fitted any of these? Any advice
regarding cost, feasibility etc.?

I have one which I tried several years ago when I bought it.
http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/lights/gaslamp1.jpg
http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/lights/gaslamp2.jpg
http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/lights/gaslamp3.jpg
It doesn't work very well because the jet, air hole, etc wasn't
designed for natural gas (probably town gas). I know what mantle
it requires (and even more surprisingly, found a shop only a few
hundred yards from my front door with a box load of them), but I
couldn't find out any information about what power the mantle
was supposed to burn at, which makes sizing a jet and getting
gas/air mixture flow speed correct rather difficult. I might get
back to it sometime, but as projects go, it's abandoned at the
moment.

However, I will comment that compared to a filament lamp, they
are horribly inefficient, but surprisingly not yet banned ;-)
It probably chucks out something like 500W+ heat, but I doubt
the mantle would generate more than 100W filament equivalent of
light even with the correct jet/mixture/speed, if that.

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Andrew Gabriel
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