Unfortunately, like you said, we're quite likely to see fakes soon. Which is why I hoard Panasonics right away before they are more popular. Later, they might just be like TF / UF right now, very hard to find genuine ones.
And with gleaming reviews like this all over BLF and elsewhere, I'd expect this won't take too long.
I do hope to return to these tests and do a couple of different LiIon batteries, but as long as I have lots of batteries for the battery test, it will have to wait.
i think that's exactly what i was talking about: the discharge capacity of a li-ion cell starting off a resting voltage other than the (slightly overcharged but "standard") 4.20V.
so from the table i am gathering that the AW cell (-0.1A, 4.10V) contains only 89% of the max possible capacity (-0.1A, 4.20V, 2336mAh), namely 2072mAh.
reason why i am curious, it happens that the integrated flashlight charger of one of my flashlights only charges the cells to 4.103V, while i was expecting 4.15V or higher. poor charging circuit in my flashlight!!
well this reminds of a night club where i order a 0.2L glass of cold coke but the tender serves a half-a**ed glass with maybe 0.17L in it hehe. gotta hate that club!! ;)
Good point. When the flashlight signals "charging done!", i take out the HQ cells (18650 Panasonic) and measure their voltage (i.e. after 10 seconds). UT61E would show a 4.104V offline reading. Since these are HQ cells, the self-discharge rate, offline, is super low. After 60 minutes UT61E would still return ~4.10V, so no big difference/self-discharge/loss of capacity.