using an LP bottle like a gas grill to run gas logs?
Also, where are you located? Just hook it up to one side and put the valve to that side. Yet the same service can fill the 30 on site too!
With natural gas, in order to make it cheaper than electricity and propane is you must have as many gas appliances as possible. When you use propane as fuel for your generator you will need to find the right size of tank that will suit your needs. The reason that most generator users like to use the 20 lb tank is that these tanks can be just swapped for fresh ones at most gas stations.
using an LP bottle like a gas grill to run gas logs? - I was hoping someone on here might be a gasfitter, who would know the legality of the whole thing.
I'd like to install some propane-gas based logs in my fireplace to use as an auxiliary heat source this winter. Mainly for when the power goes out I have electric heat pumpor for very cold morning while eating breakfast. As such, I don't want or need a massive buried tank for propane at my house. I considered a 100lb tank however, 1 the local gas companies won't fill these at the house, and 2 as I understand it, these tanks must be transported vertically, which will be very difficult for me even though I have a pickup. I would like to use 40lb tanks instead or even the bbq propane 20lb tanks keeping extras on handbut am 100 on what parts I need to hook the gas logs up. Can anyone verify this will work with what I am trying to do? I just did the same thing. I installed an Empire vent free log set in my wood burning fireplace that I plan to use mostly in a vented manner. I ran black pipe from the outside on my open air back porch into the fireplace which attached to the gas log house controls. It tank just fine. My log set is around 32000 btu so I can expect around 10. I plan to get a 40lb tank. Be aware that hook code might require you to have a gas shutoff installed inside the house. Mine does, so I installed one. That's 2 20lb tanks worth of propane. I just had my 120 gal. I already had a male fitting on the outside of the house on the line that comes thru the wall into the fireplace. I weighed the tank first and ran the fireplace for one hour. It used about 1. At this rate a 20lb tank would last about 10-11 hours.