Keep trying, and failing, to start engine - what am I doing wrong?

[The Grim Sleeper]

The SMES accept power equal to their Input level, but will not reliably charge if their Input level is higher than the incoming power. Since incoming solar power changes frequently, the SMES mean that there's usually at least one SMES refusing to accept the power its panels is generating.

You don't need to cut off the SMES to hotwire; just bypass. Sometimes the SMES seem to bug out and not store power. Hotwiring both fixes this and constantly dumps the max wattage available into the APCs at any given time.

So to summarize: There is a bug with the SMES that stops them from absorbing power and since the solars feed directly into the SMES and nothing else, the become useless when this bug triggers. By hot-wiring the solars, any power they supply will feed into the net instead.
After hot-wiring, will the SMES units still absorb the surplus power if the voltage on the cable is higher then it's input value?
If the bug is related to 'too high input value', would setting the input values for the Solar SMES to 0 also be a solution? What about the other 4 SMES units?