Propane Tank Gauge

[charliem]

[font size="3"]Just received the Dometic version from Amazon. I decided to try it since I misplaced my fishhook  grill gauge. Seems to work as advertised although I found it helpful to wiggle it around a bit on the bottle. It's easy to get a false negative reading if alignment is incorrect, but a false positive is unlikely. No green, no gas.

For the few extra bucks I went with Dometic and Amazon because of the Dometic name and the Amazon return policy. The bad reviews regarding the Moscap customer support on Amazon concerned me and, i[/font][font size="3"]n the event of a DOA, I didn't want to deal with a poor return policy.[/font][font size="3"] I credited most of the one and two star Amazon reviews to people not using the device correctly. Apparently the need to press the device hard against the tank is not well documented in the Moscap instructions and I think that accounts for most of the bad reviews. The Moscap video now emphasizes this requirement. And Moscap's Web site is now down.


Funny story for you engineers: Just this last week as I was searching for my fishhook gauge I was thinking "I wonder if acoustics would work?" Then comes this thread. Oh well, another business opportunity missed.

Warning: It may not work on a beer can!   8-)
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[charliem]

[font size="3"]As a follow up, the Dometic propane level gauge works very well. However, it does help to put one hand on the propane tank even if it's well anchored to the trailer. Minute vibrations disturb the readings. I had just two vent fans running on low and was having trouble getting a reading. Placed my free hand on the tank and wallah!
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