MOPEKA GAS LEVEL SENSOR - ANY GOOD?

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Hello all from a chilly mid Wales. Has anyone used, or have any knowledge of the above? As they are fairly pricey I wanted to make sure they work fairly well at least😁. Those magnetic ones are useless, can see any change in it at all🤔🤷

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Colin🙂👍
 
I got one in the sales to fit to my water tank so I can connect it to my victron stuff. when i was reading about the gas ones people where saying they don't work too well with refillables as the float confuses them. LPG shop had a voucher discount for them on ebay just before christmas was the cheapest I could find .
 
mistericeman said:
Never had an issue with the mopeka sensors and our Gaslow bottles....

Batteries last about a year depending on how often they check levels etc

I've been very happy with them....
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Thanks mistericeman, looking like a purchase may be coming 🙂👍
 
mistericeman said:
Never had an issue with the mopeka sensors and our Gaslow bottles....

Batteries last about a year depending on how often they check levels etc

I've been very happy with them....
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There seems to be two types, a round one and an oblong one. I can't see any difference. We have an 11kg flo gas propane bottle, not sure which one we'd need?
 
Mtbcol said:
There seems to be two types, a round one and an oblong one. I can't see any difference. We have an 11kg flo gas propane bottle, not sure which one we'd need?
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These are the shape we have.....

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Had one for a couple of years,works well, blue tooth is a bit weak but works if your in the motorhome or close outside. C32 coin battery lasts about a year
 
I have a pair of Mopeka sensors - use one the Gaslow bottle and one on the Fresh Water tank.
I actually got mine from Amazon US - they had a combo deal on offer for the sensors, the display, and fitting adapters which worked out well. (I sold the display on which made the sensors the cheapest around).

I have the round ones which I would suggest you get if fitting onto a gas bottle as much simplier to position.
 
I am happy with gauges on our Gaslow 11kg bottles, supported by the Leisuregas Auto 2000 photo charts that show the approximate (but quite accurate) photos of the gauge needle that show the remaining gas. I had used both bottles and reckoned that I had used 35%-40% of each bottle.

Filled up today at BP Baeza and the 80% cutoff occurred at 17.59 litres. 2 x 11kg cylinders will hold about 42 litres and 40% usage equals just shy of 17 Litres (16.8 litres) of gas, so my refill total of 17.59 litres was pretty accurate. I don't like running the gas down too low, in case there's another Morrisons withdrawal of gas sales or similar, or a low level of gas coincides with a cold snap where I need to be able to fire up the heating without panicking

Steve
 
Happy new year everyone! And thank you all for the replies. Looks like we'll be getting one as the feedback is mostly good. Apart from ease of fitting ( as wildebus says, I can't see any difference. We are probably going to go refillable in the future, would this make any difference, as I believe some bottles are glass fibre? Of course neither would stick to those magnetically. Is one design useable on those and the current steel bottles we have?
 
Would this one be ok? Looks like it has a bit to stick it on a non magnetic bottle ( it says for aluminium)
 

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I don’t think the mopeka type would work on non metal cylinders. For composite cylinders such as the gas bank ones I have it would have to be one of the scale types that work on cylinder weight such as this.
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Mtbcol said:
Would this one be ok? Looks like it has a bit to stick it on a non magnetic bottle ( it says for aluminium)
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Yes, I have these on my fresh and are tanks, also the gas tank. They work by sending a signal through the liquid, the adhesive cage is used when the tank concerned is not one the magnet should stick to and holds the sensor in place.
 
iandsm said:
Yes, I have these on my fresh and are tanks, also the gas tank. They work by sending a signal through the liquid, the adhesive cage is used when the tank concerned is not one the magnet should stick to and holds the sensor in place.
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So would work on a composite bottle?
 
iandsm said:
Yes, I have these on my fresh and are tanks, also the gas tank. They work by sending a signal through the liquid, the adhesive cage is used when the tank concerned is not one the magnet should stick to and holds the sensor in place.
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Assuming your water tanks are plastic this is encouraging, I have been put off these as all listings that I have seen specify steel or aluminium cylinders.
 
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