Hi Bobby. I have 4 of the Valence batteries currently hooked up to 4 battery balancer's I purchased from Electric Car Parts Company. They were 23.50 per battery and keep my bank to within 1/100 of a volt usually. I seen it once at 2/100 of a volt out once. I am looking at the same battery protect as you and I think if we cover those bases, we should be able to connect them however we want. There is a member on here that has the Valence software and links to some cables that should let us read all the battery information. I need to contact him for the software because I cannot find it myself. I have not hooked my batteries up together yet, just tested capacity and balanced them. Waiting for the protect and some cables. I currently have no plans to get the BMS and I am going to connect them series parallel. Hook up the parallel batteries first if doing this.