ladymc53
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Ok, here's the deal. I had company a couple of days ago and I baked biscuits for breakfast and forgot to turn off the oven. Set on 350 degrees. We left later for dinner and it had been on all day but we didn't realize it. I'm still amazed that we didn't feel the heat, so I'm wondering if the problem started before we left. When we came back at the door I smelled something, but didn't think gas. We chatted a bit and then I said - I think I smell gas...it was that subtle, but yet once identified, strong enough that we wondered why we didn't smell it sooner. Went to the stove and saw that the oven dial was still set on 350 degrees. We had left our cat and their small 5 lb. dog inside and they were fine. We turned off the oven dial and the smell went away. That's all we did.
Today I'm still thinking about this and wondering WHY we smelled gas and yet there was no flame. We turned off the propane tanks and DH doesn't know if there's propane in them or not - he doesn't know how to ck. them to see how much is in them.
My question: Since I didn't turn it off, wouldn't it have kept heating? If one tank ran out, would the flame go out during the switchover to the other tank and that's how the propane came in? Seems that we caught it right after it started. I don't know if there's a leak somewhere. I need to figure this out as DH has had a stroke and isn't the sharpest right now. Help? Thanks!
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dbbls
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It will switch over without the flame going out. If it wasn't burning then you are out of gas.
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jameswb1
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Remove the tanks. If they are light they are empty. If they are 1/2 to full they will be fairly heavy. When you run out of propane with something like the oven you will sometimes smell the odor agent in the propane.Be sure your detector is working by testing it. the manual that came with will tell you how.
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sele
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Does your propane tanks switch automatically from an empty tank to a full tank??? If you switch it manually when one runs out have it filled and continue to use out of the other until it runs out then switch over to the full one filling the empty. you get the idea that way you won't run out,
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cheryl3
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Sometime when tanks switch over there is air in the line. Try lighting a burner on your stove. If it won't light you are out of propane. We do not let our switch by themselves, that way we know which is empty.
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MNtundraRet
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I would lift the top of the oven/range and check to make sure all gas-line connections are tight. Also; since the oven has only one control, it would be feeding gas to the pilot-light, expecting you to light it. Once you turned the propane back on, this would be happening. If the stove possibly has auto-ignition, it would have restarted the oven.
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Propane, by itself has NO odor. An odor-producing agent is always added to commercial propane. When a tank has set for a while this odor-agent tends to settle to the bottom of the tank. When the propane level gets very low the odor is more pronounced. My spoude is more sensitive to this than I so she always can tell when we are about to empty one of our tanks. This may be what caused your condition??
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wa8yxm
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First Propane has no smell that you can detect.. Thus they add a "Perfume" at the factory
Normally, when the gas is burned, this perfume is destroyed in the fire. However sometimes, when the tank is near empty There is more perfume than the fire can burn.. Thus you smell it
You might think your explosive gas detector should "Smell" it too
however the purfume is not explosive.. It is there so you can detect it.. The explosive gas detector actually detects the propane, which was all burned in the fire and thus is not around to detect.
I hope this makes more sense to you than it does when I read it
But the bottom line is.. You smelled the smell they add to the gas so you can smell it.. BECAUSE you ran the tank dry and the smell is stronger in the bottom of the tank.
Do, however, check for problems.
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ladymc53
Canyon Lake, Texas
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We turned off the propane outside, waited a while and then turned it back on. I needed to boil eggs last night for tuna salad and it worked fine. Didn't ck. the oven. Will take the tanks out to see if they need refilling. Thanks to you all.
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