Its a convoluted history, but basically Twicell makes them all. Fujitsu is closer to being the original than the others as Fujitsu bought the Twicell battery factory when Sanyo was sold to Panasonic as part of some FCC deal. Or something like that.
Depends on your quantity and patience. Banggood is reasonable for prices and speed of shipping.
Illumn and MTN electronics in America have faster shipping but you’re paying extra for it so the cost of batteries works out to be a bit more. MTN actually has very competitive prices for a US based seller.
As above, but also FastTech will deliver and have stocks of decent cells. With the US sellers, just buy a few items, maybe a good discount light and postage seems like good value. Illumn has a special on a few Sunwayman lights now. Worth a look IMO. The D40A is a bit of a staple light too Link to thread here
Theres an Aussie seller if you prefer, but you will pay as ,much if not more than a US seller incl postage.
plus one with Banggood.
they offer pretty good prices and if you’re happy to wait, they post discounts as well.
delivery time is approximately a month so that’s the catch. unless you want to pay more for shipping which they can do.
I find the NCR18650B pretty good and reasonable priced.
I have the NCR18650A and I read somewhere that they used Panasonic cells.
i find them a real bargain for the quality
you can get the Olight 3400mAh and those are really good branded quality cells also available on Banggood
I just received a credit from Fasttech after my batteries were rejected at the port. They are saying they can still send batteries by ship but delivery time is expected to be 6 to 8 weeks.
So its still hit and miss? I got two separate lots from FT, all close to the PP limit of 45 days (one by surface/sea, one by air), but they did get here. Delivery was in the last 5 weeks or so.
Not sure if I missed it but MTN electronics can only send 4 batteries per order I think just in case you needed more. I currently have some coming from banggood and a lot coming from FT via surface. I figured if I was going to have to wait a while I might as well make a decent sized order.
Will probably order some from MTN in a couple of weeks but I think I have spent enough for this week!
I just picked up another 10 Blazars off Yass like an hour ago! Awesome feller, highly recommend paying a bit more and buying off him, and these ones also have the really good protection circuit and are 68mm long.
All my batteries have come from Illumn and I've never had any issues buying batteries from them. I just received 7 batteries (4x18650, 1x26650, 2x14500) in 2 weeks from the day of order. Their shipping prices have gone up but their product prices are good and I feel comfortable ordering from them knowing my stuff will show up!