I read through the whole thread and I think some legitimate questions were brought up by the CPF establishment, though I also think they are sticking their head in the sand. To me, old's test of the batteries indicates that the battery can deliver a pretty high current, but doesn't tell the whole story. And then xxllmm4 didn't identify himself as someone who is selling the batteries, which seems like an important point (though it becomes obvious eventually).
Honestly it's hard to run these tests without some really good equipment which not that many people have. Mitro's graphs are very good, but IMR's have never been known for high capacity, only high current without exploding. The CK batteries seem to be able to deliver high current *and* high capacity, which should make them very interesting to all of us with high power flashlights. The only worry is about how safe they are given that they aren't protected, though the high current draw tests are a good sign that they don't break down easily.
I think the thing to take away from old's review (and that CPF missed) was here is an early review of a new battery and how it performs against a good selection of other batteries at three different current draws. It's not a perfect test, but it is a good start and the batteries did pretty well. It is data. I'd like to see more and so would some people at CPF, but you can't get all the data at one time.
I can't argue with them shutting the thread down after reading a couple of the posts that weren't deleted and I'm sure the deleted posts weren't dousing any flames.
Don't take offense, Matt. They left your data in place (for once!) and if someone wants to post more data, they can, just in a new post. And the CK batteries got favorable comments from several different people, so CK came out pretty good too.