Today it was cloudy with little sun. Some rain during the night, but ony sprinkles. We had some scattered showers during the morning and early after noon hours but then the sun came out and warmed things up considerably. There were generators running everywhere as the solar panels were not putting out much current.
They had a nice turn out for the 4X4 rally. I think 18 or 19 units. All went well with only mishap, a blow out and they had to change a tire. We noticed several units leaving today. Mostly from other areas as the hams will stick around until tomorrows big sale. We plan on leaving on Sunday as soon as we get things put away and the rig ready to hit the road. We will have to get fuel at the Pilot and then we will dump our holding tanks and get propane on the west side of Phoenix before we go to Mesa.
There were several seminars today. One on batteries, large ones for the coach and small ones. There is a new battery coming out it is a AAAA size. Quite small and made for the new small items that require power but not much room. He talked about lead acid batteries and their advantages as well as drawbacks. A good choice for the money, however. He also mentioned that you do not connect more than 4 golf cart 6V batteries in a bank as they will not take a charge. Use either 4 or 8 of them. The old standby workhorse is the NiCad battery. It will give you 100% power to the end and then it quits. Other batteries will reduce their output as their charge goes down. So it all depends on what you are going to use them for and what you expect them to do for you as to what batteries you choose.
Another seminar was on Heath Kit memories. The presenter had several Heath Kit units in his motor home and proudly showed them to one and all that were interested. Some really nice looking equipment.