Quick Propane Level Gauge with Truma Level Check
Dave SolbergDescription
If you’re hitting the road soon, and you plan on using propane for various appliances during your trip, it’s important to check the level of your ASME tank to ensure you have enough LP to last the whole way. Some ASME systems come equipped with an exterior propane level gauge that simplifies this process, but most do not, which means you have to remove the tank and weigh it to check how much propane you have left.
Thankfully, Truma has created an intuitive ultrasound product that allows you to easily and accurately perform a propane level gauge prior to taking off in your RV. The Truma Level Check makes the process a snap–in just seconds, you’ll get an exact reading of the amount of LP you have left. In this lesson, RV expert Dave Solberg walks you through a quick demonstration for using the Level Check to measure the level on any ASME tank. Just push the button, and you’ve got an instant readout!
On larger rigs, especially those equipped with the ASME tanks, like on motor homes, it's easy to check the level of your propane or LP. There's a gauge on the inside. Now, smaller units are going to have a single tank or even some of these dual tank ones, don't have a gauge inside. It just gives you water levels. So there's a handy little gadget. This is called a truma level check and it uses ultrasound to test the level. So we opened up this compartment here, and you see there's no gauges inside. Typically I'd have to take this out and weigh it. So I'd know how much is in it. But by just using a simple little test here. That tells me right where it's, at so I can go up, not there, right there. So I'm a little more than half full with this unit. I can use this on gas grills, on cylinders, or the DOT cylinders like this, or ASME tanks, truma level check, really easy way to find out how much LP you have. So you don't run out.
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Instead of weighing the tank: remove the tank, pour hot water on the tank. The hot water can be out of your hot water tank. Taking care not to burn yourself feel the tank from the bottom up where the cold and hot line is. That line is how full the tank is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LoAqO0MxYc