HKJ, I admire your dedication, professionalism and details given to all your tests. And thanks for sharing with us here! Whenever I needed guide, it is always your site. Cheers
PS: I still need some time to digest all those charts, I know, I'm slow.
I will add more ratings when I get to the cheaper cells. The Trustfire Flame 2400 I called "Acceptable for a cheap cell", I do not like batteries that are way below specified capacity.
When I get to batteries where the two tested batteries has very different capacity, I will have to find some lower rating, because this is a sign that the cells are old, used or very cheaply manufactured.
I is always possible to ask question about them, this might also help me to write a better explanation.
I've been feeling a little uneasy about choosing the 2250s over the couple of good 3100s for use in the DRY. I figured that over many cycles they might fare better than others, since they'll handle even higher current discharge than i will do - but now in your second and fifth graphs, I see another reason to choose them. WOW. I might order some more lol
edit; actually, I misunderstood the 5th graph at first. still, very interesting and helpful to visually compare this data. hard to imagine how confusing all the available offerings would be w/o this sort of work. thanks
I guess this is the place I will look before buying any "high quality" cells.
For now Ill stay with the trust fires/flames..
Im just thinking. Would it be a good idea to keep some of these Reviews untouched by other users, eg questions/discussions etc.
And make another thread for discussing. I guess this thread will be a very useful one. With all these cell comparisons.
Usually people need to read about 10 pages about 1 cell to see if the cell is actually good or not. But with all these reviews in 1 thread.. its probably better to not get everything mixed up..
Wow really good work HKJ. I really appreciate the time and effort have put in and continue to put into this. Looking forward to the results of the other batteries in line.
Why should they be left without comments? The review is always at the top and you do not need to read the comments (But they might contains some useful information).
Not at the moment, I have work for the next two months.
Thank you very much for doing all these tests and contributions! And most important of all very open and absolute transparent reporting of results with an open mind to test them!
I am very pleased to see that the Callies Kustom performing to par. Still remember that time when xlimm4 was cornered by some "so-called" respected folks (not here) and thread locked because it was said that it is another thing to just slap on a PCB on a Panasonic and that "does not make it a Reliast or AW". heh...
I am sure with the XTAR 3100 and revised int-outdoor protected Panny 3100s come out, they will all give us more good choices!
Why should they be left without comments? The review is always at the top and you do not need to read the comments (But they might contains some useful information).
I was thinking about other short reviews, or even just a thread about a specific battery, that took a lot of comments, but after a lot of different comments, people concluded they were not as good as they thought.. blue IO 3100cell for example. Thats why.