After soldering new pins onto my test leads and sharpening them down into points so I could (very carefully) insert test leads in the side of the battery plug that has the retainer tab openings (little holes with metal showing) repeatedly I determined that I could make no sense of the voltages...
anyways I did this a few times and in the process tightened down the connections in that plug assembly.
re~installed battery and 45 minutes later my green bar of joy had 75% increase, Nice! Soon after battery read full. Funny, In my case the controller gave me positive indication that controller was charging when in fact it was not...
So...I had a loose plug and seems as though all is well