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@ Colonel Light.

Hobby King for battery packs. They have an Aussie Warehouse.

Supersport600 on ebay for batteries locally.

I use Kaidomain and Banggood for batteries from China.

I picked up the guts of a Ryobi 18v battery on eBay for ~$30, all LG HE2s. Other ones are Sanyo UX…

Seller was factory-price-au.

I like Tech Around You for 18650s - they sell Samsung 30Qs for $8 each including postage if you order two or more. Based in Melbourne, delivery has always been very fast for me.

Aldi torch

Very disappointing I found. Dull blue emitter, poorly controlled zoom, spongy switch, rough and sharp threads. Gave mine to Vinnies after a couple of weeks.

May be ok if you crave a 3D Maglite, but don’t expect the Mag quality of finish.

Is it a twist zoom or push pull?

My recollection is twisty, but with a loose and imprecise action. It was many months ago now, and I was so disappointed in it I moved it on quickly.

Thanks for the input so far, no “gold standard” for obtaining new 18650s in Australia it seems, since the restrictions on transporting lithium ion batteries by air.

eBay sellers (and their websites) sound like the best way to go. And maybe a power tool battery pack (eg. Ozito, Workzone) if they’re discounted heavily enough.

auplazaplace seems to have good prices on local stock as well. Sofirn sells batteries with low shipping, no GST and 10% coupon for first order but I haven’t tried a test order.

saves seller

Did I mention ecocell earlier? They were pretty good.

So far there’s:

  • Tech around you
  • Supersports600
  • Ecocell
  • AUPlazaPlace

I’m hesitant to add Lanplus as they were where I got my first 30Qs from which have turned out to be… somewhat less than genuine, or at least highly suspect (discovered long after purchase).

I just put an order in at Liitokala store for some 26650 and 21700s the shipping was only a few bucks.

You can pickup some decent lights now at Bunnings for a good price look for the clearance items and brands like Eiger and Teller they always go on sale. The ones i have bought have a mix of LEDs one was a XPG2 another was a XML2 U3 another was a XPG3.

I picked up a car bonnet light it does 700 lumens for $10 its rechargeable great for the shed.

I didn’t see any batteries on the Liitokala AliExpress store with postage that low to Australia unfortunately. Lowest was US$7.37, most were US$11.58. Maybe I could keep looking, I notice that battery packs have only US $3.16 postage (untracked).

Try to add a few things to your cart and see if shipping changes? Right now its showing me $7 AUD but i paid less.

Supersports600 has some good 26650 Keeppower 5500mAh

Yep, I’ve got them :slight_smile: 15A.

I successfully got a couple of PLB 26650s from Sofirn, they used Fastway. I ordered eight 14500s on the 17th (when the exchange rate was 0.60) but they haven’t shipped yet.

For torch/headlamp buying I noticed YLP accepts payments in Rubles (RUB), and the prices are significantly better than if paying in USD. Coupon code BLF-10 for 10% off. The shipping cost is high if ordering one item though, but you could get eg. a Panda 2M CRI and an Escort T95 CRI for RUB 4482 (AUD $98) delivered.
If you paid $71 USD you’d be looking at AUD $127 at the time of writing.

Thanks for the heads-up! I’d been thinking about some YLP lights but that makes it more attractive.

I just got a bunch of 21700 and 26650s from Liitokala Aliexpress. They seems to be able to ship here.

Now if only i could find some toilet paper lol.

Im wanting to convert a 3D Maglite to LED with a crystal optic and Lithium ion batteries. Has anyone in Australia done this and have found suitable components and somewhere in Australia to supply them.

I don’t know of anywhere in AU that does that - only place I really knew of was AdventureSport (vestureofblood’s site): https://asflashlights.com/18-led-upgrades-for-maglite

US based, expensive even without our dollar being in the gutter.

Maybe Cutter Electronics ?