Coleman RoadTrip using onboard quick connects

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Brian V - 16 Jun 2007 17:14 GMT

Hi all,
I recently purchased a Coleman Roadtrip grill, it is awesome, tears down
quickly, very easy to clean etc, a great replacment for our RVQ. Anyways, I
tried to connect it to the onboard quick connect sytem in our camper.
Problem is it gets "over regulated", don't know any better terms, basically
the pressure is too low when running off the quick connects since they are
arleady pressure regulated. Basically the main tanks have their own
regulator which feed the copper lines which have the quick connects off
them. I have already removed the cap off the regulator that comes with the
grill and tried adjusting the pressure there to no avail, it did pick up a
bit but no where close to what is required. I've searched all over and can't
find a non regulated connector for the grill. Next trial is to call coleman
directly, but I don't think they will help much, never know tho.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Heard of any grill adapters for the
coleman that will allow it to run directly off the low pressure system?
Thanks!
-Brian

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Peter Pan - 16 Jun 2007 20:25 GMT

> Hi all,
> I recently purchased a Coleman Roadtrip grill, it is awesome,
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> adapters for the coleman that will allow it to run directly off the
> low pressure system? Thanks! -Brian

Well, you have half the problem right.. there are low pressure regulated
systems (like for rv stoves/ovens/fridge/water heater/furnaces), and high
pressure (like for grills) each with their own regulator.. Look at the
connector on your tank, and there is usually a high pressure tap (usually a
threaded hole with a solid metal bolt in it, just before the regulator for
the LOW pressure that everything in your RV wants, you can put a seperate
high pressure regulator on that, and then a high pressure quick connect on
that one only).. Considering all the low pressure propane stuff in your RV,
do *NOT*, repeat, do *NOT*, putz with the regulator for all the low pressure
systems!.. You can possibly make your grill work, however everything else
will mess up!

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Brian V - 16 Jun 2007 21:36 GMT

>> Hi all,
>> I recently purchased a Coleman Roadtrip grill, it is awesome,
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> the low pressure systems!.. You can possibly make your grill work, however
> everything else will mess up!

Thanks Jim. I will check it out to see if there is a tap on the main
regulator. I wouldn't dream of messing with the pressure on the main system.
I was hoping to find a way to use the onboard system, there are 4 quick
connects under the camper in various places. The RVQ works fine off any of
them, the Coleman, none of them, well it works, but won't get hot enough to
cook on. I guess that tells me the RVQ's pressure regulator is designed to
work with low pressure where the Coleman is designed to work off of high
pressure.
I'm running the Coleman off one of those extended stay kits now, it
works fine, but I just don't like how it looks.
Thanks again,
-Brian

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Frank Tabor - 16 Jun 2007 21:53 GMT

>>> Hi all,
>>> I recently purchased a Coleman Roadtrip grill, it is awesome,
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> works fine, but I just don't like how it looks. Thanks again,
> -Brian

You need the RV extender kit.

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Frank Tabor
Q: What is green and lives in the ocean?
A: Moby Pickle.

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Frank Tabor - 16 Jun 2007 21:56 GMT

>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I recently purchased a Coleman Roadtrip grill, it is awesome,
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>
> You need the RV extender kit.

Nevermind, I failed to read the last sentence. That extender is going to
be your safest method. You go replumbing your gas lines and messing with
the regulator and you may cause more problems than you fix.

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Frank Tabor
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a
week sometimes to make it up.
-- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"

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Ken Montgomery - 18 Jun 2007 03:59 GMT

Hi Brian...

I bit the bullet and went over to Lowe's and bought a CharBroil hose
adapter (extender) for about $16. I connected this to my Coleman
RoadTrip and the other end to a 5 gallon propane tank. Since I already
owned the tank, all it needed was the propane. Basically what you're
using is the pressure regulator that came with your RoadTrip...and this
is much safer than what you're contemplating. Smaller propane tanks are
available and these propane tanks are much more cost effective than the
small propane screw on bottles used for lamps and portable camp stoves.
All in all, I've been satisfied with this arrangement and I find it to
be quite very safe.

Best of luck...Ken

> Hi all,
> I recently purchased a Coleman Roadtrip grill, it is awesome, tears
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> Thanks!
> -Brian

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