Lithium battery banks using batteries with built-in Battery Management Systems (BMS) are created by connecting two or more batteries together to support a single application. Connecting multiple lithiu. The primary function of a BMS is to ensure that each cell in the battery remains within its safe operating limits, and to t. The primary purpose of a BMS is to interrupt the charge and discharge process if cell and battery voltage, cell and battery current and cell and BMS temperatures go outside of their designed operating specifications To. Lithium batteries are connected in series when the goal is to increase the nominal voltage rating of one individual lithium battery - by connecting it in series strings with at least one more of the same type and specification - to. Overall battery performance is related to charge/discharge rates; to the temperature during the electro-chemical processes taking place during charge/discharge; to all of the inter-battery connections, and to a batteries age. Ea. Resistance - and changes in resistance over time - come from the battery's internal component design; from changes in internal resistance during the charge/discharge electro-chemical process; changes in temperature, an.