Week 2

The Battery reference book appears to be a good source of information for charging batteries. Lecturer Ray Manley has provided some batteries and two solar panels from the lab. Here is an image of the batteries. The larger one on the left is a lead acid battery, the middle is a nicad (nickel cadmium) and the third an nimh battery (nickel-metal hydride battery). 

Rechargeable Batteries

Next we have an image of the 2 solar panels. They appear to be damaged but I could not say for certain as I have never held or used one before. I will investigate it further at a later stage.

Solar Panels

The panels are very interesting and even attracted a few questions from other students when they seen the panels on my desk. The solar power aspect of the project was one of the reasons I chose this project so hopefully I will successfully incorporate them into the design.