Hello shay,
Welcome to Forcefield / otherpower.
Interesting first post or should I say two post, why?
You have done your home work, touche for you.
With that said it would have been nice for links to the documents you site, would have saved me a search. Tom Hund's document is a nice summery document, not much original work in it.
I have read many of the sited references. I could not find the US Marine document.
"My opinion is that most moderately affluent members of the world don't want to go to the trouble of reading the above resource. Their solution is to buy the best, pay the engineer/designer fees, contract the installation, and deal with whatever happens."
True, I have found I must become the expert in EVERYTHING I want and do. Every time I rely on the experts to give or do something I find they take advantage of my ignorance and it cost me in may ways.
The problem is there are sooooo many aspects to life it is hard to become the expert in them all. Yet I try. For example try investing without knowing anything about investing, I have seen it many times, the brokers are the only ones to make money unless the market is so hot that anybody could make money.
You must be young to make your entrance this way. I appreciate detailed theory about things, most here are looking for practical ways to build wind generators. I am a geeks geek. What are you?
Back to the purpose of your Diaries. You ask to know about the maintenance of a submarine battery.
Why? If you follow the directions of the battery manufacture you will get good life from the battery. Going beyond this for what purpose? I'm working on modeling the battery, I have realized I need to add the damage to the model, so thanks for helping me realize this. I was focused on the SOC.
I agree most should start out using golf cart batteries, much lower cost. If they are cared for as well as required by the expensive batteries, their life is good. A much better value.
Your Bio is interesting, are these the things your doing or interested in?
Remember this is all about having fun,
Scott.