DC power, batteries, solar tutorials/sources of information on the net?

Question

Hello,

I would like to understand better on DC power technology, solar power, and batteries. I want to get reliable sources of information to help me undershand terminologies, like AH, floating voltage, battery charge and discharge curves interpretation etc. I normally visit wikipedia, yahoo answers, etc. What other reliable source on the web can i use?

Answer 1

Some ham radio operators have decent achieves on the subjects, MIT has an online library although I haven't used it for the subjects mentioned above.

Answer 2

Well, a few things to look at that will branch out from there are:

http://www.southwestpv.com/About_SolarEn...

http://www.southwestpv.com/About_SolarEn...

http://www.yuasabatteries.com/pdfs/TechM...

http://www.mkbattery.com/techref.php

http://www.mkbattery.com/images/VRLA_Tec...

http://support.morningstarcorp.com/produ...

   (look at Operator manual... has good info)

http://www.kyocerasolar.com/solar/

http://www.national.com/an/AN/AN-946.pdf...

   (Charger... has good info)

Hope that helps... big thing is to follow the associated links. Good Luck.