11-20-2013, 11:13 PM
It depends on a lot of factors.....temperature outside, insulation, size of area, your comfort zone etc. Mainly it comes down to how high you are running the stove. This stove goes up to 12,000 btus. I don't run it anywhere near that.
Since I don't run the stove very hot, I can keep things hot on it, but it would be hard to boil anything unless I ran it at full blast.
Some propane conversions:
1 gallon of Propane ~= 4.23 lbs ~= 91500 Btus 1 lbs of Propane ~=22000 Btus. 20 lb tank of propane holds approx 4 gallons of propane (approx 366000 BTUs)
If I was running the stove at approximately half, (6,000 btus), it would use about 1 lb in 3 to 4 hours. I was running it most of the time at probably 3,000 or 4,000 btus so 1 lb would last about 6 or 7 hrs. Which was about what I got when I had a 1 lb tank hooked up. Then I just used it to warm things up at night and more in the morning.
A 20 lb tank of propane would run the stove at 4,000 btus for about 91.5 hours. Run at 6,000 btus it would be about 61 hours. etc
This last time I was out camping it was for 3 nights of pretty cold weather (Nov). I started the stove at about 5 pm and ran it until about 10 am the next morning. (The temperature drops just about as soon as the sun goes down.) That is about 17 hrs. per night for 3 nights, so around 51 hrs at various btu levels.
I used about 3/4ths of my 20lb tank. (Which wasn't completely full to start with.)
Edit-- my mistake I used that same propane tank for two other nights that I had forgotten about. About 85 hours of burn time. So I am guessing that it will run about 6 to 8 nights on a tank.
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Since I don't run the stove very hot, I can keep things hot on it, but it would be hard to boil anything unless I ran it at full blast.
Some propane conversions:
1 gallon of Propane ~= 4.23 lbs ~= 91500 Btus 1 lbs of Propane ~=22000 Btus. 20 lb tank of propane holds approx 4 gallons of propane (approx 366000 BTUs)
If I was running the stove at approximately half, (6,000 btus), it would use about 1 lb in 3 to 4 hours. I was running it most of the time at probably 3,000 or 4,000 btus so 1 lb would last about 6 or 7 hrs. Which was about what I got when I had a 1 lb tank hooked up. Then I just used it to warm things up at night and more in the morning.
A 20 lb tank of propane would run the stove at 4,000 btus for about 91.5 hours. Run at 6,000 btus it would be about 61 hours. etc
This last time I was out camping it was for 3 nights of pretty cold weather (Nov). I started the stove at about 5 pm and ran it until about 10 am the next morning. (The temperature drops just about as soon as the sun goes down.) That is about 17 hrs. per night for 3 nights, so around 51 hrs at various btu levels.
I used about 3/4ths of my 20lb tank. (Which wasn't completely full to start with.)
Edit-- my mistake I used that same propane tank for two other nights that I had forgotten about. About 85 hours of burn time. So I am guessing that it will run about 6 to 8 nights on a tank.
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