Test/review of BLD 18650 3800mAh USB (Green)

Batteries and Chargers Rechargeable Batteries
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BLD 18650 3800mAh USB (Green)







Official specifications:

  • Product name: 18650 USB Rechargeable Li-ion Battery

  • Model: 18650

  • Type: Lithium Battery

  • Appearance Capacity: 3800mAh/4200mAh

  • Voltage: 3.7V

  • Green Colour

  • Weight: 34g

  • Dimensions: 67 x 18 mm (length x body diameter)(without protected board)



A USB rechargeable LiIon battery, based on a 18500 cell with 3800mAh, no way















The capacity is lower than I expected and it cannot handle much current either, but at least the two tested batteries are equally bad.

















This is charging with a normal LiIon charger.



This is charging from the USB connector with a 5V supply, the two charge circuit is not perfectly matched in voltage, but easily withing the usual tolerances.



Conclusion

This is not exactly good batteries, they are rather bad with only 700mAh and only up to about 2A current. The USB charging works and do not need a cable.

They may be usable for some low power 18650 devices where USB charging is needed, but there is much better batteries with build in USB charger.



Notes and links

How is the test done and how to read the charts
How is a protected LiIon battery constructed
More about button top and flat top batteries
Graphical comparison to 18650 and other batteries
Table with all tested LiIon batteries
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LoL!

Consistency award, great! :-)

Banggood's search engine is terrible, look at the result when I search for BLD 18650 at their website. In my opinion, it should give a direct exact match. Neither could find it with usb rechargeable 18650.

^:)

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The are sold out:

Or maybe they have replaced them with this:

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Bangbad?

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Where do they get those figures? That is some sort of small li-ion cell attached to a tiny DC-DC converter with USB in :facepalm: 14500 size. 1200mAh at ≈1.5V? :facepalm: Right now the best 14500 li-ion cell is ≈3.5Wh maximum, and this people claims their product does 1.8Wh with probably less than half inner battery chemistry stuff plus coping with DC-DC converter losses. They even show this misleading picture:

I bet that integrated battery device will struggle to make an electric shaver or radio control car work even passably.

:THUMBS-UP:

Of course they may think different.

^:)

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Thank you HKJ, for another well done review.
And for having our back’s, as we clearly can see.

Sorry to see that the hit-and-run-guys are still at it.
When are they ever going to learn.