We took a brief holiday up to Hepburn/Daylesford on Wednesday/Thursday (just the better half and me) - back Friday lunchtime so I didn't get much done since my previous post. On Friday afternoon I removed the rear packs, added the tie down straps and mounted the tray permanently. The tray is held in by 6 x 1/4" high tensile bolts with large flat washers under the bolt head and and underneath the car (not that the Vogue bodywork needs them on the underside).
I also added the charger connections and made the BMS monitoring cable then added the connectors to the cable running up to the engine bay. I used a DB-9 male/female pair. I had a little setback when upon testing the BMS monitoring. Pack numbers 2 and 5 didn't light up the Blue LED. Pack 2 had a cooked LED (to enthusiastic with heatshrink me thinks) and pack 5 had the +/- connections for the 12V enable back to front (didn't I test that?). I fixed both of them Friday night. I haven't mounted the rear chargers yet.
Here is a picture of the five rear packs plugged into their chargers temporarily.
The packs without the blue LEDs on are already charged and are balancing internally.

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