- Lauren from Snowys here folks with the Jetboil JetGauge.
♪ Hit it ♪ - It's super affordable,
compact and lightweight and just what you need
to figure out how much gas you've got left
in your hiking stove canister.
So your JetGauge will come in this little box here
and with it will be some operating instructions.
It weighs around about 85 grammes.
It's made from a hardened plastic
with the actual weighing end here being a steel.
On the back here
you can see we've got our little battery case.
It's not a rechargeable unit.
It is run off a CR2032 battery
which is very commonly available.
You can get it from the supermarket,
hardware store, and things like that.
On the front here hidden in the Jetboil logo on the O
is our on and off button.
So we'll just press and hold that on.
Along the top here we've got 100 grammes.
Now, if I press and hold this button shortly
it'll take us to 230 grammes.
And then again it'll take us to 450 grammes.
Now the reason why we have those measurements
is because the unit is calibrated
first and foremost to Jetboil canisters
which come in those three predetermined weights.
There is also a off setting
or actually before I go onto that, as you can see here
you've got a percentage next to the zero which means that
when you select the size canister you've got
when you're weighing it it will give you
the percentage number of what's in that particular canister
and that's how it's calibrated.
If, for example, you want to use a different brand canister
like this MSR one I have here that isn't exactly
the same weight distribution we can press and hold again
and that will take us through to zero grammes.
So it won't actually give you a percentage
but it will let you know how many grammes is left
in that non-preset canister.
So what we'll need to do to measure
this Jetboil 100 gramme canister here.
You can see it's got 100 gramme stamp there
is we will cycle through,
which you can do so really effectively
by pressing the button for three seconds,
to our preselected 100 gramme canister.
Now this, I should mention before that this will connect
to any canister that has this Linden valve.
If you canister doesn't have the Linden valve
it's not gonna work for you.
So we'll just twist this on like so.
All right here we go.
And now we just suspend the canister.
Now, as you can see that's letting us know that there is 62
around 60% of gas left in this canister.
If you are measuring a Jetboil gas canister
your package which I showed you before
will have a rough percentage guide here on the back.
Now this is only applicable for your Jetboil canisters
because that's how the unit is calibrated
as I mentioned before. You could probably also use it
as a rough guide for other brands too.
So if we know that there is 60% left in this canister
we're looking at between our 12 and 18 boils here
using a Jetboil device.
So probably sitting around halfway
around about 15 boils left at about 60% here.
So if we are wanting to use, as I mentioned before
a brand that isn't pre calibrated by the Jetboil gauge
we're gonna click through pressing the button
for three seconds each time, to get the generic gramme count.
Now we know that the gross weight
of this MSR gas canister is 211 grammes.
(canister thuds)
So we will screw this one on, like so.
(canister squeaking)
Now I will mention as well,
obviously this Jetboil canister
and the MSR canister are the same size,
but because this is calibrated.
When you are working with Jetboil canisters,
you will only ever work off
or this is calibrated to work off the net weight
which is the gas weight.
When using another brand of canister,
you're gonna be working off
the whole gross weight of the unit.
So, now we've got that attached.
We're gonna lift it up, and see here
that we've got 180 grammes of our total weight.
So from that 211 grammes we're down to 181 grammes.
So essentially, as you can see
this little gadget is quite handy.
It will prevent you from carrying too much gas
that you don't need or accidentally not taking enough.
I didn't mention before which I'm gonna do now.
The measurements of it as well
are 6 1/2 centimetres wide by about five centimetres deep
and around about 2 1/2 centimetres thick.
So nice and compact fits in your pocket,
into the pack or into a pocket of your bag
something like along those lines.
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