GROUPBUY: 8pcs Samsung 35E BUTTON TOP for the BLF GT

Received my 8 pc samsung 35e for the blf gt in 19 days… thank for the quick shipping… great experience… will buy again…

Any pics of the cells?

How is the button connected to the cell?

Have you looked at & read Post #1??

They fit perfect.

I just received my Samsung batteries. Can anyone recommend a charger? I have the one from fenix and nitecore. Would these be good enough? I’ve only ever had those brand name batteries. This is my first time ordering Samsung ones.

Are you looking for an 8 bay charger or 4? There are lots of good ones to choose from.

It does not matter. 4 or 8 is good. I just need one of good quality that will charge these batteries.

The liitokala Lii-500 is a very popular charger. It does 4 cells at 1A each plus has lots of extra info to test your batteries. $26 to $27. Choose the US plug.

LiitoKala Lii-500 Lithium And NiMH Battery LCD Smartest Charger

https://banggood.app.link/q1IBnvwdXJ

It’s cheaper on Aliexpress, but I don’t know what stores are legit.

Ok thanks for the info jasonww. Still brand new to the flashlight world so any info is greatly appreciated!

Like Jason said, the Lii 500 is a good one… my personal favorite.

But…. what model Fenix & Nitecore do you have?? Most likely they will work fine.

Also, IF you decide on a new one join up at M4DM4X.com for discount codes.

M4DM4X is a member here.

I have the Fenix ARE-C2 and I think it’s a nitecore MiBOXER C4

OK… the Fenix ARE-C2 will be fine.

There is a Miboxer C4, it is fine to.

I am not familiar with a “nitecore MIBOXER C4” however. Are you sure that is what it is??

In any event…. if you have been charging 18650 batteries with it, it will work just fine also.

If you use each charger, check the charged voltage of batteries from each charger to make sure they are pretty close to each other.

I think that Fenix charger is the same as the ThruNite MCC-4. It looks decent and will charge 18650 cells at 1A each.

I don’t know if Nitecore is related to miboxer. I’ve never seen them together. The C4 is slso a pretty good charger and does 18650 cells at 0.8A each.

So if they are still working for you, then there’s no need to buy a new one.

Martin,
I ordered and paid for the batteries together with the GT.
But no batteries were shipped with my GT when I received it yesterday.
Messaged Neal but no reply.
Can you help?

I’m Interested

i talk to Neal!

I have a question about the samsung 30Q and the samsung 35E

Today my BLF Q8 arrived and a put some ncr18650B in it, works fine. In comperison with my jetbeam DDR30, i do not notice a difference in output.
I’m also on the list for the BLF GT, and lately i got the BLF A6.
Now i’m asking myself if i have to order the 30Q’s for the Q8 and order the 35E’s for the GT, or doesn’t that matter? i want afcourse the longer runtimes so my toughts were to order a bundge of 35E’s for the Q8,A6 and GT. I have the liitokala500

The 30Q’s have 3000maH and the 35E’s have 3500maH.
Is that the only difference?

And can i put the 35E’s in the Q8 and the A6?

I read alot on this forum but sometimes the info confuses me, so maby some one can explain.

30Qs will have slightly lower voltage sag than the 35E initially, meaning, for the first few minutes, the BLF A6 will be brighter when using the 30Q on it.

Not sure if the Q8 will have that much difference when using 4x 35E vs 4x 30Q (30Q still is more ‘high-drain-capable’ than the 35E, but having 4 in parallel maybe wll have very slight voltage sag so the max brightness difference probably will be less noticeable?)

I’m in,
Thank you

The 35E has a slightly different recipe of ingredients in order to improve the runtime at the expense of current output.

If you look here you can see Tom E’s tests on the Q8 using the 3500mah Sanyo GA (which is pretty equivalent to the 35E) and the 3000mah Samsung 30Q.

The GA gave 5,250 lumen and
the 30Q gave 5,800 lumen.

It’s pretty close and not likely something you could see with your eye. So you have to decide if you want max lumens to be measured by a lux meter or max runtime measured by actual use.

A very handy link to keep around is HKJ’s battery comparator. You’ll need to copy and past it, then put a regular dot in place of the “dot”. The forum software corrupts the regular link.
www”dot”lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers UK.html.

Just click the 18650 link then choose the 2 batteries you want to compare. Now the GT using 4 cells will draw about 3A from each cell. You can choose the 3A check box on the web page and see exactly the differences. For the Q8 with 4 cells and the A6, I’d choose the 5A check box. You can see the difference is not very big. You could go either way, really. Just keep in mind the GT and Q8 need raised top cells. So you can either buy button top or just solder blob them.