Dougrose - I found(thru search), where you wrote: Each battery is connected to the solar cells through two diodes, forward biased, that provide about 0.6 volt drop each. Since almost 19 volts are available, this does not reduce charging current. One of the two diodes is paralleled by a 1 ohm 1 watt resistor. This arrangement gives each battery some charge even though the voltages may be somewhat different, and puts all of the charging capacity toward one battery if it is really low.

Would you look or do you remember whether the band/cathode was toward the solar panel, or the battery? I'm trying to straighten my mind out about something I read about what actually goes on during charging.

What I read, was that the charger takes electrons away from the positive plates, rather than putting them in and the direction of your diodes will tell us whether this is true or not(since they tell me electron flow is against the arrow in the symbol)??

Thanks,

Thank you for the diagram. If I read it right, then what I read earlier about charging is correct. All these years, I thought we were putting something INTO the battery rather than taking something OUT. I suppose this action goes on until chemical action within the battery ceases....?

Isn't current defined as the flow of electrons past a given point - or something to that effect. I gotta go look it up again....

Thanks for your time in replying, Dougrose.