Danger! Low voltage!

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Two and half years of neglect haven't been kind to my batteries.  While I was finishing up the silver car, my car just sat in the garage.  Actually, I pirated some fuse box parts from it use on the silver car so it wasn't even drivable any longer.  When I finally got around to working on it again, I relocated the BMS from the ill-conceived "bubble" into the trunk area.  But when I tried to test the BMS wiring, I found that all my batteries were well below desired voltage.  As a result, the BMS refused to charge the pack.

Between the two cars, I have a few Tesla batteries.

Therefore, I was forced to pull all the batteries out of the car and nurse them back to health by individually charging each one slowly.  Fortunately, they all came back to life and hold their charge well so I can reassemble the car again.



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