Umm....explain this please. 

Keep trying to purge and light, sometimes it takes several attempts and seems like forever.

If you smell propane, stop and wait until the air clears

Vann

The regulator lowers the high pressure from the tank to the low pressure that the appliances use.

Do you have some kind of gauge on the portable tank valve that you are referring to?

Perhaps one that screws on the brass propane tank fitting? And it reads full?

Greetings:  Turn off the gas at the tank, and disconnect the hose, put it back on and open the valve slowly.  The LP tank has a valve the shuts off for a large pressure change.  It's inside the tank.  Try the stove burners.  If they stay on your good to go.  

Crankster78

There are a few technologies for gauges on propane tanks.  Some of them are worth diddly.  So the first thing to do is make sure you have propane in the tank.  Unhook it and pick it up.  The propane is liquid in the tank so you can feel it in the tank when you move it.  If you know what you're doing, you can weigh it, or you can take it somewhere and have it filled.  Your regulator could be bad.  They aren't horribly expensive to replace.  The hose from the regulator to the Pod can get clogged.  Again, not expensive or hard to replace (and as far as I know, the only fix is to replace it.) Beyond that point I've never had a problem, but you might need to blow out the copper lines on the Pod.  I wouldn't go that far before trying everything else and getting more feedback from others here.

Your symptoms sound more like you're out of propane than anything else, but the advice to turn off the gas and then turn it back on very slowly is worth trying first.

The first thing to try to light is the stove.  Depending on things, you could have or get air in the lines, so turn on the gas at the stove and try to light it every 10 or 15 seconds for a minute or two.  If you get the stove working the other things should fall in place.

We need some feedback from you.  Most of us would like to know what it took to get you going, or what you've tried that failed so we can suggest next steps.

TT

The only caveat to the above is that most of the gauges are only good for a general reading at best. The two tanks I purchased that have gauges read green, yellow, red. Green should be good, yellow should be near empty, and red should be empty. In reality, the manufacturer made it so that red just means low. The float is near the place where the tank starts to curve in to the bottom if I am guessing correctly. That means that there may be a number of days worth of propane (if camping in hot weather) to maybe a day or two if camping in cold weather and running the furnace.

I agree that it is also possible that the gauge could have gotten stuck and is giving you a false reading. Here is an alternative to picking it up and shaking it or weighing it. Boil some water. Pour it over the tank. Wait a few seconds and feel the tank. If you can feel a line where the temperature above is warm and cool beneath, that line is the propane level. If the whole tank feels warm where you poured the water, then the tank is empty regardless of the gauge reading.

I can confirm that hoses can malfunction. We had one go bad. I thought it was the regulator, but a new regulator did not fix the problem. The With the stove burning, if the furnace kicked on, the flame of the stove would just about go out. There is an anti-backflow valve in the hose that apparently went bad. The regulator turned out to have been just fine. I put the old regulator back on and it worked well with a new hose. Later, I did change the regulator since it was much more used and I was troubleshooting a refrigerator issue (not staying cold enough on propane). That is another story though.