I placed a post asking for info on gas driers. We found a good one (GE) in Radiocentro in Santiago. On close inspection I noticed a small sticker inside the door stating that it needed to be converted to run on bottled gas (LP). The salesman looked at the sticker, scratched his head and declared that nobody had ever complained before and that it would be fine to plumb it straight to LP.
Once I had got the thing delivered to Sosua I settled down with the installation manual and this time I found further instructions declaring that both the valve and burner assembly needed to be changed if I wanted to run it on bottled gas. Rather than continue with the installation I emailed a friend who is a licenced gas fitter. Here is his reply:
Hi Simon, My Dearest friend -- PLEASE DO NOT bodge up a bottle of LPG onto a regulator and pipe it up to the gas tumble drier. It is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. LPG runs at 37mb. Natural gas runs at 21mb.They are two completely different animals. Propane is heavier than air whilst NG is lighter than air. You will make your lovely wife a very sad widow if you mess with this. In the manufacturers instructions there will be a list of injector sizes for Natural gas and for propane or butane. Let me know the injector size for propane or butane and I will endeavour to get them for you. The regulators are readily available out there in the DR.The information you have quoted from GE will be of little help to my man in Brighouse, but give him injector sizes and Bingo we are home and dry. Pleased you enjoyed the cake --- live a little longer -- DONT MESS WITH GAS. Trev.
So there you have it - I've been done! I'll need to buy a whole new set of internals for my brand new drier but please, please, please, if you have one of these rigged up by a Dominican gasman switch it off and run!
Simon
Once I had got the thing delivered to Sosua I settled down with the installation manual and this time I found further instructions declaring that both the valve and burner assembly needed to be changed if I wanted to run it on bottled gas. Rather than continue with the installation I emailed a friend who is a licenced gas fitter. Here is his reply:
Hi Simon, My Dearest friend -- PLEASE DO NOT bodge up a bottle of LPG onto a regulator and pipe it up to the gas tumble drier. It is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. LPG runs at 37mb. Natural gas runs at 21mb.They are two completely different animals. Propane is heavier than air whilst NG is lighter than air. You will make your lovely wife a very sad widow if you mess with this. In the manufacturers instructions there will be a list of injector sizes for Natural gas and for propane or butane. Let me know the injector size for propane or butane and I will endeavour to get them for you. The regulators are readily available out there in the DR.The information you have quoted from GE will be of little help to my man in Brighouse, but give him injector sizes and Bingo we are home and dry. Pleased you enjoyed the cake --- live a little longer -- DONT MESS WITH GAS. Trev.
So there you have it - I've been done! I'll need to buy a whole new set of internals for my brand new drier but please, please, please, if you have one of these rigged up by a Dominican gasman switch it off and run!
Simon