King Kong 26650 is HARDCORE! 4525mAh and it's first cycle only!

1A discharge till 2.6V on a genuine IMAX B6 (on my Uni T UT-58E it is actually closer to 2.7V when it terminates, the B6 has non-precision resistors, well documented case in RC). Edit, when it terminates, the voltage is 2.8V under load on the UT-58E.

4525mAh. Open circuit of discharged cell = 3.326V

Second cycle

Interesting. How does the MNKE 26650 test on the B6?

That's impressive, hopefully more torches will be released that take 26650s. Why is your b6 on NiMH setting? To take the end voltage lower?

18650 is 69.23% of 26650 (18 / 26).

Panasonic 3100 I have done a best measurement of 3120mAh to the same voltage with the same charger.

So 3120/0.6923 = 4506mAh if we extrapolate the Panasonic NCR18650A 3100mAh to this 26650 size.

The King Kong gets 4525mAh. WOW! (BTW it really is King Kong 26650, direct translation)

asd

Yep.... LiPo only gets down to 3.0V.

Still on a flight from China.

asd

My tests on the Panasonic 3100s (this is the 3rd cycle)

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/3535

You can just about see in my pic how a cheap blue trust fire did, shows how much better decent cells are...

My blue ultrafires did like 1200-1300 thereabouts. heh... The 2400 and 3800mAh ones... they came with my lasers.

You can't calculate the proportion like this. When comparing sizes of the cells (thus, the "mass" of electrolyte inside) you have to take into account cross section area or whole volume.

The cross section of 18650: 3.14*r^2=254mm2

and for 26650 we have: 3.14*r^2=531mm2

(I'm neglecting the insulation and case thickness).

From these rough calculations, it seems that 26650 has twice the volume (therefore ~twice the electrolyte) of 18650 cell. If it was the same technology as in Panasonic NCR, these cells should have ~6000mAh. ;)

Oh yeah....should use area instead. So after cycling a few times should hit like 4700mAh. So equivalent to a 2350mAh cell. Not too shabby yeah.

I mean the XTAR 2600s are also 2400+ @ 1A. I measured mine to be 2286mAh first cycle for the new purple label ones.

It is normal 18650 got more power per volume, millions of them are manufactured against few ones 26650.

Anyway it is not bad at all those 4525mAh.

Not bad? It got 4526mAh from the first cycle and it actually surpassed their rated capacity of 4000mAh @ 1A. Most of the 18650 cannot surpass their rated capacity, even when they do, it's 20mA, So the King Kong got with 13% more than rated, and the NCR18650A with 0.6% more than rated. And I doubt all NCR18650A will exceed their rated capacity.

I wonder what capacity will the King Kong give at 4A (1C).

Mitro said that his MNKE 26650 got over 4000mAh even @ 3A discharge, and since they are IMR, probably delivering high currents is not a problem.

Thanks 2100!

I mean not bad comparing their sizes against the Panasonic NCR18650A.

Let's see their volume differences.

Where the 18650 is roughly like this:

V= 3.14x81x65= 16532.1mm³

And the 26650 would be:

V=3.14x169x65=34492.9mm³

So,

3100--------16532.1

x------------34492.9

This gives us the 26650 should be 6467mAh which is much more than 4525mAh, so that is why I said it is not bad for a battery which is not as standard as a 18650 made by a company with a bigger R&D dept.

Volume of 18650 should be 66170 mm^3

Volume of 26650 should be 138059 mm^3.

That's 2.08x more volume.

Same 2.08x as compared to area. It's all mathematically relative to each other....

Sorry 2100, I don't get how you calculated those volumes, they are giving 2.0944X ratio not 2.08.

And yes, it is the same difference in this case with same height comparing Areas or Volumes.

I used 3.142

3.142 x 18 x 18 x 65 = 66170. To be more accurate, it is 2.0864.

I am talking about the money spent vs what you get. Discussing the volume is something theoretical and you have to choose the best from what you are being offered now.

The 2600 Sanyo ( 2400+mah reality) seems to be the standard not the 3100 from Panasonic. Let's say that 2500mah is ordinary and the King Kong are ordinary 26650.

2500--------16532.1

x------------34492.9

That's 5212mAh.

18 is diameter. Divide by two first before squaring.

2100, I understand then, you are getting the diameter*diameter, when the volume formula of a cylinder stantes it is radius*radius.

Hikelite,

The price relationship is quite good, and I got 26650s from MNKE and I am happy with them,but my point was just regarding their sizes nothing else than that.

I would love there were a model from panasonic with the same Watts per volume in a 26650 version, so I cannot compare equal to equal, just the best I know of each model.

I mean we were talking about different things.