I purchased four imren purple 4200 mah 26650 batteries at wholesale price locally at perfect vape warehouse, online they cost much more but I have had excellent results with these batteries in my ft03.
When you look at HKJ’s 26650 comparator, Shocklii 5500 vs shocklii 4300mah(green) graph look very weird. At below 15amp discharge, Voltage sag still in favour to the Shocklii 5500mah. But when it come to above 15amp discharge, the 4300mah(green) can handle heavy load. That why I change my mind, 5500mah look very strong for me….
Edit: its Shocklii 26650 4300mah (green) imho typo
I have the Sofirn HD 5000mah button top, it’s a normal size cell. Just a tad smaller in diameter than the Shockli 5500. I don’t know about the normal Sofirn 5500mah.
I was told the sales of 5500mAh is not good, the last inventory runned out in Oct.
PLB’s 26650 batteries are for battery powered cars or for factory. Even if flasholics like 5500mAh HD 26650 very much. The sales is not big for PLB. That’s what I am guessing.
The guy contacted me after I emailed PLB official email address, so I think it’s factory direct. Maybe some dealers have inventory.
Anybody help confirm this “discontinued 550mAh HD 26650 from PLB”?
I like the shocklii 26650 5500mah and already place another order on AE.Why would they discontinue? Hmmm…probably they come out a new one, much more better…
They don’t mention that on their website. They just show the smaller capacity 5000mah, and the specs for that one are not so great, they show 10A continuous discharge. The 5500mah was 15A, so that’s disappointing.
MTN was mentioned here, but that is a US store and I live in Europe. Is this a legit source? Shockli Battery Store
The batteries are 6.93 euro there and the shipping is 3.06 euro via PostNL in my case. Link: https://bit.ly/34N6yHE
On shops like AliExpress and Banggood almost everything seems to get rave reviews and a lot of shops are called ‘official’, so it doesn’t mean much to me. Then again, this store has a 99.3% rating, and the batteries themselves have the full 5 stars, something which you don’t see very often I think. Any thoughts?
Aliexpress is like eBay, it’s a bunch of independent stores that are all grouped together through a common payment system. The bottom line is you need to be familiar with the particular store you’re buying from if you want to be sure to get the genuine article. Just like ebay.
Banggood on the other hand is an actual store so you know who you’re buying from. They also stand behind what they sell. If they should get a batch of imitation batteries then they will stand behind what they sell and make it right.
A common store for Europe is EU.Nkon.nl.
If you want that 5500mah PLB battery they carry it, but the total cost may be more.
So you have to weigh the cost against getting a fake cell from an Aliexpress store over paying more from a more legit source. Most likely it will be legit. You can usually tell by its size and measured capacity.