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05/5/2017 at 10:48pm
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Have a look at this Camping and Caravanning Club article.
I guess, since you mention cylinders, you're considering a two burners or two burners-and-a-grill stove?
These usually run off butane or propane but need a regulator on the cylinder to supply gas at the correct pressure, via a rubber hose, secured with Jubilee clips, to the stove.
Campingaz are the smallest and lightest type of refillable cylinder widely available in UK and on the Continent and contain butane, and are often recommended for use when tent camping in the warmer months. The hose and regulator are normally kept attached to the stove, and with the regulator turned off, the cylinder is screwed onto the regulator (clockwise) and then stood upright and the regulator knob turned on for use.
Disadvantages of Campingaz are the higher cost of gas kg for kg (compared to Calor or Flogas) and the fact that it's only available in butane, which remains liquid at low ambient temperatures so may not work below about 5degrees C.
Calor, and a number of brands in the Flogas group supply a choice of propane or butane, in 4.5kg or 3.9kg cylinders (probably the only practical size for many tent campers with limited space and payload, but larger than the Campingaz 907) which again use a hose connected to the stove but attached to the cylinder via a screw-in (anticlockwise) regulator for propane or a screw-on (also anticlockwise) regulator for butane.
Disadvantages of Calor/Flogas are, as mentioned above, size and weight, and lack of Continental availability if that's a concern.
Disadvantages of both Calor/Flogas and Campingaz are high initial cost of the first cylinder (unless you can source one elsewhere to use an "exchange" when buying a filled cylinder).
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