It's 11 inches of water. Check out: http://www.rvmobile.com/ Look under the MISC link, you will see a gas manometer that will measure the pressure. You can also go to this page: http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/ccpress.htm It will let you convert from inches of water to many other units. 11 inches of water = 27.4 milibars , Todd '88 Westy Stebbins wrote: > I have searched the archives and I found a lot of discussion > about the Westy propane regulator needing to push 11 inches > of water (?) but I need to know what 11 inches of pressure > is in the "Bar" measurement as I am trying to hook my fridge > up to a propane bottle and the only regulators I can find > (here in Cairo) are labeled in Kg/h, L/hr and Bar (sometimes > m.bar). I can find regulators labeled: 20 Bar, 25 Bar, 30 > Bar etc. My Excel spreadsheet does not have the conversion, > inches to bar (or at least I can not find it). I used > http://www.unitwiz.com/index.html to find a conversion and > all I found was Inches to "Barleycorns" whatever that is! > > Do you know what 11 inches of propane pressure is in the Bar > measurement?? > > I was able to get the stove to work with a regulator of > unknown/unlabled pressure, the fridge tries to light > (swish-poof) then goes out. > > Thanks, Malcolm Stebbins |
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