Primus Omnilite Titanium vs Omnifuel multifuel stove review
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Thanks Tiley. Thats exactly what I thought about needing another, Titanium helped me justify it very quickly!
Thanks CBR
IME, the Omnifuel was great for simmering, it will cook pasta and soup without burning. The Omnilite seems even better turner down low, the flame is tiny but still blue. How reliably it'll simmer with wind though will be found out. I'm more of a cooker than a boil in the bag man, and simmering is important to me too.
I've found that Aspen, coleman and gas simmer very well in the Omnifuel, unleaded less so because of the slow dirtying of the jets after a while. I can see no reason why the Omnilite won't be as good.
I use UL Trangia aluminium pots, normal ally to boil water and non stick for simmering and frying.
Thats a old omnifuel stove you got there, the newer one looks like this.
and came with the same red pump,
Thanks for that Phil. It looks like the bag is different(and pump), but I can't see any other differences.
Yes mate, I'll get them up soon as
The outer cup / wind shield is different. The older Omnifuel inherited the parts from the Himalya MF.
Thanks CBR
IME, the Omnifuel was great for simmering, it will cook pasta and soup without burning. The Omnilite seems even better turner down low, the flame is tiny but still blue. How reliably it'll simmer with wind though will be found out. I'm more of a cooker than a boil in the bag man, and simmering is important to me too.
I've found that Aspen, coleman and gas simmer very well in the Omnifuel, unleaded less so because of the slow dirtying of the jets after a while. I can see no reason why the Omnilite won't be as good.
I use UL Trangia aluminium pots, normal ally to boil water and non stick for simmering and frying.
Fantastic thanks.
I'm sorely tempted but i'm not sure i'll use anything but gas in it, so it seems like a bit of waste.
I'm hovering over the BIN button though
Fantastic thanks.
I'm sorely tempted but i'm not sure i'll use anything but gas in it, so it seems like a bit of waste.
I'm hovering over the BIN button though
Thats the quandary with these exp stoves. Looking at the stats on Primus's webpage though, it appears its not too inefficient running on gas.
We'll see.
Thanks Johnboy, I'll hunt some pics down of the Himalaya.
Thanks JB!
The Omnifuel wasn't so new at the time either then, the outer cup, burner chamber and tripod look almost identical
The fuel pipe looks to be hard work to avoid kinking it.
The Omnifuel wasn't so new at the time either then, the outer cup, burner chamber and tripod look almost identical
The fuel pipe looks to be hard work to avoid kinking it.
Was searching the net for some info on the himalaya primus and this popped up on google.
Just my .02
brand new omnifuel 355g
Brand new MSR whisperlite 241g
overview
Just my .02
brand new omnifuel 355g
Brand new MSR whisperlite 241g
overview
Time for an annual update on this following your trips, methinks Teepee
Good idea Andy
Update;
Both stoves are still with me. The Omnilite works identically to the Omnifuel I've found, but with less power.
I have found the Omnilite a little under gunned at times for melting snow compared to the original, especially at very low temps. For boiling liquid water though with containers up to 4l, it's almost equivalent. Using the heat exchanger pots would certainly be a good idea to get the Omnilite to equal the Omnifuel. I chose not too as the Primus heat exchanger pots won't like being hung over a fire.
The pot stand on the Omnilite struggles with big pots, it's a little too flimsy for them. For big pots and melting snow, the extra weight of the Omnifuel is worth it IMO. My stand actually buckled under the weight of 6l of water.
Since getting the Omnilite, its burnt 8l of white gas and 3l of gas and the jets haven't needed poking clean yet. No servicing has been needed at all.
Fuel usage is good-I'm getting around 5 hours run time on 890ml of white gas at high power.
Cheers Pete. Good to hear that it has been behaving itself! From what I'd read about this stove, You've basically confirmed what I was thinking on the Ti - it appears to have been optimised for the Eta pot system with the heat exchangers. Having said that, it also sounds like a perfect unit for a Trangia KAP-clone conversion, where the Omnifuel's power would be overkill!
ps - looks like you've brought the weather back to Blighty with you
ps - looks like you've brought the weather back to Blighty with you
Cheers Pete. Good to hear that it has been behaving itself! From what I'd read about this stove, You've basically confirmed what I was thinking on the Ti - it appears to have been optimised for the Eta pot system with the heat exchangers. Having said that, it also sounds like a perfect unit for a Trangia KAP-clone conversion, where the Omnifuel's power would be overkill!
ps - looks like you've brought the weather back to Blighty with you
I agree, no point having the Omnifuels oomph-it barely needs half power most of the time in the Trangia set.
No only did I bring it back home, I'm taking it back next week
I would like to know if the jets are interchangeable with the omnilite and the omnifuel, as I would like to use the 32 jet in the omnifuel to reduce the power output a bit when coleman fuel, as I wish to fit it to my trangia 27 and feel backing of the power would suit my needs better
Richard
Richard
That's interesting Ian. Good to know the jets are interchangable, I've never tried. Does the smaller jet make the burner run a little lean? Is the simmer still as good?
Be careful changing jets as each jet is set up for the MAXIMUM of each fuel that the stoves can theoretically take when mixed with air. That means that you can run butane through the diesil jet but not deisel through the butane jet, for guaranteed clean combustion. That is of course theoretical.
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I changed the jet (reluctantly) to a 0.37mm after a new 0.32mm didn't get the trangia x2 working well.
This shows the trangiax2 with canister gas, and not working well, so i'd be grateful if anyone knows why this may not be working. My local outdoor stores were stumped, and suggested this forum!
This was true for white gas/canister gas, all of which worked fine when swapped to the omnifuel i have.
It was a 'last chance saloon' for my trangiax2, which I was about to bin!
I agree using a larger jet isn't ideal, but i couldn't see an alternative in the circumstances..
I changed the jet (reluctantly) to a 0.37mm after a new 0.32mm didn't get the trangia x2 working well.
This shows the trangiax2 with canister gas, and not working well, so i'd be grateful if anyone knows why this may not be working. My local outdoor stores were stumped, and suggested this forum!
This was true for white gas/canister gas, all of which worked fine when swapped to the omnifuel i have.
It was a 'last chance saloon' for my trangiax2, which I was about to bin!
I agree using a larger jet isn't ideal, but i couldn't see an alternative in the circumstances..
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@Petro. The theory doesn't macth the outcome unfortunately. Run gas on a small jet and blows itself out, run diesel on the big jet and it chokes. It was a hard lesson that night when I left the spares kit in the vehicle.
Ian, I don't know the X2 but I'm struggling to understand why a .32 is fitted for burning gas when the Omni takes a .45.
It looks like an identical burner cup to the Omni and airflow will be no different. My Omni runs fine as an X2 setup in a Trangia
The .32 burn is just wrong, looks a very lean burn. The .37 looks much better, still not simmering like an Omni but then it only has the one control valve.
Ian, I don't know the X2 but I'm struggling to understand why a .32 is fitted for burning gas when the Omni takes a .45.
It looks like an identical burner cup to the Omni and airflow will be no different. My Omni runs fine as an X2 setup in a TrangiaThe .32 burn is just wrong, looks a very lean burn. The .37 looks much better, still not simmering like an Omni but then it only has the one control valve.
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