Also if i’m flashlight world for quite a long time and i’ve tried different mod (dedoming, oven mod to obtain a differen anodization, play with circuit board and leds) i still avoid multi cell flashlight. Since i saw a not matching set of battery explode i’m a bit afraid of this kind of light.
Now i want to try and i think SR King could be a good starting point.
So i need your advice:
- Which SRK is the good one (i see thousand of clones)
- Could you suggest a performing battery with a good price?
If i charge four batteries in batch of 2 with nitecore i2 i could be pretty sure to avoid dangerous situations?
I know that for many people is a silly fear but i see many accident…
skip the srk variants (it is a lottery, and there are bad odds) and get a supfire M6.
any battery (just not **fire variants) would work
in this case, yes.
You usually hear horror stories about series multi-cell lights, but the light you picked is a 1s4p (1 series, 4 parallel) battery configuration, so in theory any 18650 will work, regardless of the capacity. The light will even work on just one 18650. Seeing as all batteries are connected together, they will all discharge at the same rate.
as long as you know your light, and about when to recharge it, you should never have a problem with leaking/exploding batteries. the leaking/exploding part usually happens when one battery gets too low of a voltage. Lithium chemistry is relatively robust by design, the problems appear when you start to abuse the batteries. As long as you don’t do anything stupid, you are fine.
I have quite a few lights with batteries in series, and never had any problems.
You see many accidents with Lithium ion batteries in lights? Really? Links plz, very rare and not hard to find info on because they seem to “explode” in the media too, as far as I know. I know of a couple. And none anywhere close.
Panasonic NCRB 18650s with a protection circuit would be a good cautious battery user choice.
The market is just flooded with trash SRKs. Thats why people have moved on to the SupFire M6. RMM / mtnelectronics carries them. Half the price of amazon marketplace scammers.
What? :~
Come on. You know if you throw a few ultrafire BRC “4000mAh” in a cheap 3 series light then the risk will not be low. Of course, use sanyo, pana etc and you will likely be fine.
Depends entirely on the cells, the light and the phase of the moon.
Any unnecessary risk is not good, and multiplying the risk by putting Ultrafires in series is even a worse idea. But no, I have not heard of many ever happening, even with Ultrafire bullshiet”6000mAh” batteries He implied he’s seen it happen, which is odd.
By “saw” he might just mean he saw pictures online. There was, at least, that infamous one light that blew apart, bloodied the guys hand. Enough force from the pictures to have taken a finger off.
Just don’t want people to think you can’t make pipe bomb if you try. Buying all garbage cells and chargers.
Its good to be cautious and ask about multi-cell lights first.
Yup, that’s one of the three I’ve seen pictures from. Maybe he did mean pictures online, I was trying to clarify and see if he had more info, not say it doesn’t ever happen. Any unnecessary risk is a bad idea, but really, every one I’ve seen more info on, the user seems to have made some big errors in checking/crappy battery choice/charger choice/treatment of batteries, or all of the above. Learn a bit, use good batteries and charger, dont over/under charge, keep them in matched cell groups and treat them well and test/dont use any suspicious acting battery…do that and in that category I haven’t heard of any accidents to my knowledge.
Probably a big part of the reason its so rare for accidents to ever happen at all lies in the fact that most everything is under driven stock, and once the newness wears off, not many people really use their lights much, so relatively few chances to blow before the crappy batteries die anyways. But yeah, I wonder at the low rate of accidents when these big 12x lights say you can run 18650s and some people put Ultrafires in them…
I see some cases of battery “explosion” (it means also venting or burning) with flashlight, with toys and also in some test we made at work on a cooking device (we produce and test electronic device).
In all these case the issue was related to in series batteries. That’s why i’m a little bit worried. Explanation of musicmagic clarify my doubt about battery configuration/risk, thanks!
Now it seems that SRK lottery is a bad idea… So… Who is so generous to give me link for good offer on M6 and on 4 good batteries? (consider that im in EU area…)
Cause your pocketbook is slim after buying it, you must lose your libido
He implied he’s seen it happen, which is odd.