I pre-ordered this lantern, which comes with a 18650 battery:
Should I recycle the battery right away, or do you think it is safe to use?
Check it out but I’m betting it wont compare to our quality brand name cells at all.
A few things set off the alarm bell in me:
- No brand indicated.
- Spec and picture show different capacity (2000 vs 2300), so which is it?
- Do I trust a 18650 included in a $10 lantern?
I have plenty of 18650 cells, but then I don’t want to be wasteful and discard a good cell (if it is), OTOH I don’t want to burn my house down either.
I wish they have the option of excluding the cell, even if they just take $1 off the price.
If in doubt, toss it out.
That 18650 has probably had a long life serving someone in a laptop pack or something already so don’t feel guilty for putting it straight in recycling 
Sounds good! I guess deep down that’s what I wanted to do, but wanted an extra nudge. Thanks 
I got 2 of those lanterns
the battery was 1300 and 1800mAh and had a really bad internal resistance, junk batteries or old laptop pulls that were recovered from overdischarge
they are to bad to even try to use em, discharge and recycle em
I have several of these lanterns as well. I did not even consider them as an option.
Hows the lantern? Is it good?
it may range anywhere from a decent chinese cell to crap.if you can test it do it and post results.
hard to expect much in any area on a $10 item.
i have several noname 2000-2200 cells like that test out very good.
and have seen plenty that were total junk recycled laptop pulls without the proper testing i give them when i salvage laptop packs.
will be interesting to see how good or bad the lantern is.
AMEN! No point in risking what you don’t have to risk. The potential for serious problems is too high since you have good cells to use instead.
Phil
My 18650 cell to light ratio is probably 3:1. So I’ll toss it out. I asked just in case they are known to be decent. Since they are suspected to be laptop pulls, I won’t bother.
I’ll post impression of the lantern when I get it and have the chance to play with it a bit.
I have two of those lanterns as well. Tossed the batteries, and replaced them with protected GA’s.
By the way, that lantern is sold on Amazon under several different names, but they are the same lantern.
Think i am getting the yellow one. Are there higher capacity ones out there? I have 2x 18650 SUBOOS lantern. They are made with tough plastic and built-in charge works fine. Unfortunately, light has PWM.
Were are these from?