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Re: Boondocking closures in Arizona
Please read the references in my blog post from the Arizona Republic (the Phoenix daily newspaper) and the link to the bill itself (it is in legal wording but there are legal interpretations that are also referenced for the lay person). It is all very clearly explained by the sources I reference.670Views0likes0CommentsRe: Boondocking closures in Arizona
Phon D Sutton is closed to camping with a "No Overnight Parking" sign out front. The USFS website has not been updated. My blog is accurate. I visited each place I mention in my blog post in person during the last few weeks. There are gates across the closed areas. Many other RVers have been in touch with the Forest Service since October when they first started arriving in the area to find out what is going on. I have spoken with the Forest Service and they have no intentions of ever reopening any of the camping areas I discuss and they are raising the rates on the day use areas to $12 with no senior discount as of Jan 2016. 28 year resident and user669Views0likes0CommentsRe: Boondocking closures in Arizona
The bill was passed by Congress in Washington, but the supervisor of Tonto National Forest controls the camping areas and recreational access. If we want to be able to camp on the public land on the Salt River, the Tonto National Forest supervisor is the one with the authority to open or close the gates to the areas that were built by his predecessors. The irony is that he claims that Tonto National Forest is too broke to maintain these areas, so he closed them. Yet there was a potential for millions of dollars of pure profit to be made from the copper under the forest. It could have financed not only the existing recreational areas -- in style -- but could have built far more. And the demand for inexpensive camping is very high, as noted by the overcrowding that existed last year in the (now closed) Phon D Sutton recreation area.308Views0likes0CommentsBoondocking closures in Arizona
Just a heads up to everyone that loves winter boondocking in Arizona. Almost all of the prime camping locations along the Salt River that have been beloved by boondockers for eons have been closed by Tonto National Forest. At the same time, the US government has sold off 4 square miles of the Tonto National Forest to foreign copper mining companies who stand to make tens of billions of dollars (and create a few jobs...not many). If this bothers you, I've outlined the situation in this blog post along with references so you know I'm not making this up plus an email address for the supervisor of the forest for expressing your thoughts (please be polite). Copper Mines, NOT CAMPING, in Tonto National Forest5.6KViews0likes22CommentsWhich solar panels to buy?
We've been living exclusively on solar power for over 8 years in trailers and a sailboat, and we've used and installed quite a few different types of solar panels in various configurations. In hopes of helping our fellow RVers that are planning a solar installation, we've put together some notes about the pros and cons of different types of panels, the impact of shade, panel longevity, warranty issues and wiring decisions: Solar panel types - Flexible vs. Rigid, 12 vs. 24 volt, Mono vs. Poly We don't claim to be experts, but we've been at this for a long time, and we would have loved to have had this kind of resource available when we were first learning...1.5KViews0likes10CommentsRe: Battery charging info
Byrogie - I have posted some info about what happens when solar charging is combined with battery charging via electric hookups or a generator or an engine alternator... I hope it is helpful: RV Battery Charging - Solar Power and Shore/Alternator Power Combined615Views0likes0CommentsRe: Battery charging info
jynrnn7 - The Outbacks use the Bulk time to calculate the Absorb time because the length of time the batteries spend in Bulk is largely dependent on how discharged they are. If they were more discharged at the start of the charge cycle, they will need to spend more time in Absorb. Morningstar handles this by looking at what the lowest voltage was that the batteries reached overnight. If they got below a certain level, they stay in Absorb longer, and if they got to a really low level they don't go into Float at all... The only limitation to that approach is that if they got really discharged overnight but some other charging system got going before the sun came up, they might be fully charged at sunrise and not need to spend much time in Absorb. This would happen if you had a big alternator on your MH or boat engine and you started driving/motoring at midnight and went all night... by sunrise you wouldn't need much solar charging if any.615Views0likes0Comments
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