Posted on 03 May 2013
Hi Jeff,
Micheals link is a good one and very informative, personally I opted for propane ( after taking advice from several more experienced camping friends at the time ) mainly due to the fact that we used to camp all year round, often going in Dec', Jan', & Feb' time and found that ( as I had been advised) propane ( red bottle) worked better at colder tempratures and also the regulator is more or less standard irrespective of supplier, not always the case with butane ( blue bottle) apparently.
even though we don't take the 'van out much after Oct' these days I have stuck with propane out of habit more than anything else.
apart from the temperature & regulator aspects, I don't
think there's that much in it performance wise , although personally I do think propane seems to burn a bit hotter than butane but that is only a personal opinion based solely on my own experience ( our 1st caravan was running butane when we got it , we ran that until the bottle was empty , at which time I changed to propane .
hope this help's
