Test/Review of Windyfire IMR14500 600mAh (Red)

Hello,Tom, i had sent email to you about your order, please check your email, any questions, please feel free to contact me.
have a great day.

Dear friend, we understand your anxious for the customer service, for every questions from our customer, we should responsible and help them deal with it patience, for many customer, maybe have the same questions,like shipping cost, like delivey time,this is they are most concern, our company will give suggestions to them one by one based on their requirements. if you have any questions or need more information from us, please contact my email linda@windyfire.com, thanks very much.

Linda, I’m sure people can read your first post just fine. No need to copy and paste them again and again.

Tom E, appreciate if you can share your order details - price, qty, shipping etc?

Just want to chime in and share my experience about this vendor. Anyone who has trouble ordering 14500 outside US (like myself) can use windyfire’s website to get some batteries. I wanted some high drain ones for my BLF X5 so checked the website and asked for a shipping quote from customer service. In a day I received and accepted an offer with tracking nr. Now I have the batteries on hand, packaging was prepared with care, cells are performing fine. Linda from CS was helpful all the way so I am a happy camper. :beer:

Also looking for some decent 14500’s for my BLF X5. Bought some “brand” batteries, but was not pleased with their performance. Even bought some “authentic xxxxx-fires”. These outperform the batteries supplied with top-of-the-bill AAA-lights, but collapsed under the pressure of the X5. I have read the review of HKJ, but shipping cost can be a dealbreaker. Can you share what offer you got form Windyfire (or PM me)?

For 4 of these batteries I paid about 12 USD including about 5 USD shipping to Hungary. I think this was fair after all, they perform fine.

Thank you, I just ordered 4 batteries and they will send me an email with the total cost (including shipping).

Edit1: Got an answer within 2 hours. Total cost $12.80 for 4 batteries in a case plus shipping. So it’s a deal.
Thank you for pointing me into the right direction.

Edit2: Arrived yesterday, 17 days after ordering. Four batteries and a complementary case. All individually packed. Wrapped in bubble plastic with foam padding between the batteries. Delivered in a bubble-lined envelope that fits the dimensions for letter-mail. Thank you, WindyFire!

Linda from Windyfire asked me if I would share my experience - why not?

I asked for a price for four 800mAh 14500’s (purple) and got a price but a few days later Linda said they could only supply the red ones that are reviewed in this topic as they only had one purple left. She gave me a price of $7.60 + $5.60 shipping ($13.20 total) for the four red plus the single purple as a gift. This seemed fine to me. They were dispatched. I received them in a decent timescale. They were very well packaged in a battery case. I have used a couple of the red and also the purple. They seem to be fine.

In all, I’m very happy with my transaction - it is a little bit different from some of the normal suppliers who quote a shipping free price but hey-ho, it doesn’t really matter in the grander scheme of things.

Linda replied to my emails quickly enough and I’m happy with her communications. I’d have no issues buying from Windyfire in the future.

SP

Thanks for mentioning this, I had completely forgot it was possible to order directly from them. :+1:

Thanks for the review, I’ve been looking at these. I don’t have a problem buying “fire” brand 14500’s if they test well. All my 18650’s are “name brand” pano, lg,samsung etc. I have Nitecore, olights, efest, awt 14500’s, so in my mind all 14500’s, 18350’s, 26650’s etc have the potential to be a”fire” brand from the factory. I really don’t know who makes these non 18650 batteries.

I have several of the red 14500 WindyFire’s and they are fantastic! Great for high drain applications also. :+1:

I received my 2nd order of these Red Windyfire 14500 batteries. I use them for my Thorfire TG06, Jetbeam MK-1 and Quark Pro QPA.

I love these batteries for their price to performance ratio. Add to that Linda’s (of Windyfire) excellent service.

Seems like the website has changed a bit:

http://www.windyfire.com/search.php?keyword=imr+14500

Now the description talks about 650 mAh (but the picture still shows the 600 mAh version). What does it mean? Is it a new (likely worse) model?

Also, it seems like they have now added another article page (the one at 11.1 USD) for small orders. I think they have raised the price a bit, but it’s still very reasonable (for 4 pcs shipped to EU it’s $15. 9 or $14.1 depending on the EU country).

Hey HKJ,

I’m trying to share the discharge graph in another topic, but it doesn’t work due to “%” symbols in the link…
How do you work around that?

Use HTML codes directly, it is possible on this forum.

(img src=“http://…” )

( ) must be replace with less than and greater than

Thanks! :+1:

Let’s see:

Nope… :person_facepalming:

What did i do wrong?
(dang, code doesn’t show in the quote…)
:weary:

(edit) I did this:
(img scr=“http://lygte-info.dk/pic/Batteries2012Small/Windyfire%20IMR14500%20600mAh%20(Red)/Windyfire%20IMR14500%20600mAh%20(Red)-Capacity.png”) and replaced () with <>

A test:

Works fine.

Could it be the space between the last ” and the > that i forgot…?

Let’s see:

Yep, that was it.

Okay, thanks :+1: and sorry about the little derailment.

Hi all
So where can i order windyfire 14500
Theirs offical page is crashing down does anybody know where to buy batteries?!