Propane Generator Fails You Keep Making!

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What I am finding with my Pulsar propane generator and propane in general to help add to all that is in here: 1. OPD valve - The stated definition I am finding focuses more on not overfilling the tank. As the primary storage mechanism of propane is a pressurized refrigerant liquid state, it needs room to boil without liquid propane ending up getting into the inlet on the tank, even if the tank is not on perfectly level ground. Plus apparently the liquid expands and contracts with temperature. So the general rule is no more than 80% of the tank has liquid propane and the other 20% is gaseous propane. If you are placing a horizontal tank on the ground and it is not level, always make sure to have the valve higher up, never at the bottom of the incline. A secondary stated feature of the OPD valve is a safety mechanism to prevent propane from escaping when nothing is attached to the tank. When I go to fill up my propane tanks, the refueling station sometimes leaves the valve wide open when they put it back in my car, but no propane comes out. This is because when you connect a line to the tank, the tip of the line pushes in a valve that lets the propane out. Because of this feature, I have to wonder if people are screwing in the line with a regulator quickly with the main valve open and this quickly opens the safety valve and propane gushes in and causes the regulator to choke on what is suddenly rushing in, blocking the line. I have never had a regulator shut off like this, so I am just working up a slightly alternate thought on how this could happen. A pressure relief valve is important in case the tank ever gets too hot. As propane is a natural refrigerant, how that works is like water and steam where the phase change to gas causes the refrigerant to expand greatly and cool greatly, except it needs a higher pressure at room temperature to stay in a liquid state. So as the tank gets colder, propane condenses into a liquid more and the pressure in the tank goes down. The liquid level doesn't change much as the liquid state is over 100x more dense than the gaseous state at ambient room temperature. When the tank is hot, some more propane will become a gas in the tank and the tank pressure will increase. While this works at a logarithmic scale, some numbers to wrap your head around is at 0 F, tank pressure should be 25 psig. At 75 F, tank pressure should be at 110 psig. At 120 F, tank pressure should be at 225 psig. At 140 F, the tank should be over 300 psig and venting propane. The thing is when the propane vents, it boils in the tank, cooling it down. If the relief valve is not enough to say overcome a fire, I have seen on the news at least when wind swept firestorms rip through town those 500 gallon propane tanks having a flame shooting out of them from venting while engulfed in flames and burning material around it and then the tank explodes because it can't vent fast enough to keep the tank temperature and thus pressure down. But this is also a reason why you don't want to store the tank in direct sunlight on a hot day and especially don't want to leave in your car with the windows rolled up on a hot. (There is a reason why tanks are painted a bright white, not jet black.) The tank goes above 140 F, it starts venting to cool off by having the propane refrigerant inside boil off, and especially in a closed up car, one spark and BOOM! 2. I like the tank size you have in the video. 30 lbs seems to be what you need to last all day under load for your home or say several days with running for a couple hours at a time at a national park when working with a small portable generator. Go over 40 lbs and you no longer come across OPD valves as they are only required for 40 lbs and under, but instead less safe POL valves that tend to have none of the safety features of OPD valves; just you open the POL valve and propane comes out. I like to put my 30 lbs tanks in base stabilizers when otherwise freestanding so they can't be knocked over too easily. Kids, pets, wild animals, and major earthquakes all seem kind of risky in terms of a tank getting knocked over and I just want to minimize that risk. Also with the local refueling station tending to leave the valve open on the smaller OPD valve tanks and then stuffing it in your vehicle that way, I am a bit leery about bringing a large tank with a POL valve to them to fill up. Especially considering some of the Yelp reviews I found of the place where people are complaining that propane is just spewing out of their tanks as they drive around after going to that refueling station. 3. For my generator at least to feed in the propane, first I need to unscrew a bit from the generator to purge the line. I have found having your gas sniffer out is handy for this as once the propane gas reaches the ground in front of the generator, causing the gas sniffer alarm to go off, at least if it is not windy out, the air is sufficiently purged from the line. The second thing is to do a single pull while the generator is on choke. I am finding with my generator this seems to pull the residual air out of the internal regulator and pull propane in. After a single pull on choke, I switch it into run mode and it just starts up. So two pulls, but this method seems to be reliable in getting the generator started every time. If I don't first choke with my generator, I find myself pulling and pulling trying to get it started and then give it a single pull on choke. So I don't even know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop. Granted there is nothing else wrong with the generator like leaving in the cheap Chinese plug that came with the generator, so far it seems to always start with this two pull strategy.