[pct-l] Isobutane Canister performance

[John Abela]

The best that I have ever gotten out of a 100g canister, while using a
Jetboil Sol Ti, has been 21 boils of 16 ounces of water, with the flame on
about 50-60%.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50366/jetboil_21.jpg

This was over an 11 day period and around 8 thousand feet of elevation.

+John Abela
HikeLighter.Com



On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Mary Kwart <mkwart at gci.net> wrote:

>
> Hi, all:
>
> I just finished hiking the Oregon section of the PCT and finally got
> to definitively figure out how much fuel I use. I packed an MSR
> isobutane cartridge that had an 8 oz net weight. I boiled 1 3/4 cup of
> water daily and put the boiling water in a freezer ziplock with the
> food in a cozy to cook. I used a snow peak canister stove attachment
> and a titanium pot. It took 6.1 grams of fuel to boil 1 3/4 cup water.
> I still had about a quarter of the fuel canister left after I reached
> the Washington border. Now I know how to gage what's left in all my
> partially used canisters at home. I can get about 37 days of 1 boil a
> day from a larger MSR canister.
> --Fireweed
>
>
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