Your welcome… my pleasure.
Wait till you need it if you wish, or go ahead & let me get it in the mail for you to have when you need it. 
Really looking forward to the info on the “new” LiitoKala batteries when you get them too. :+1:
In case any of you still wanna bet on the blue winning horse, take a look here: C-26650 @ Colaier Direct Sales Store
Received a couple 30Qs from them two days ago, tad slow shipping yet all good in every other respect. 
Some 5500mAh 26650 did come up a few month ago (can’t remember when or where, but same baby blue wrapping) and i would have expected LiitoKala to follow up…
Testing now a pair of blues from GB i received a couple month ago. No “F1” on the first line of label.
PS: Both cells came out over 5150mAh on my Opus BT C3100 at 1A - which is known to be a tad optimistic. Those are from the last batch GB was selling a couple month ago - they are out of stock now. On their pictures the cells had only one line of text above the bar code whereas the ones i received and tested have two.
+ 3.6V 18.0Wh F1 -
INR26650-50A VB15I19D 03327
I haven’t tried them in serie.
So far they look like the real thing - whatever it is.
Just ordered a pair of these Lii-50A 26650
Got the code here: Gearbest Official Deal thread (July 8th part 2 - code still works today)
When they arrive I’ll test capacity on my Lii-500 charger/analyzer and post the results here.
Thanks for the heads-up beam0, just ordered a set of 4 and will see how they compare to the pale blue ones I already have. Good deal with the coupon, nice catch!
Yep, appreciate the tip beam0… :+1:
I got four on the way. I’ll be interested to compare them with my originals also.
It probably won’t be anytime soon though… I chose Free Shipping. 
No problem, yeah great price, hope they’re good. I finally went to order those blue ones and found out about the change over to these.
I did the standard shipping but I added the shipping insurance ($1.20) …probably should have got the 4-pack.
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Just receive mine new ones, I can tell you that they can’t be connected in series and that they came with 3.8V in them. Put one of them for NOR test and I will post result here after finish.
Well… not quiet as good as the light blue ones it seems. But, still right at the rated capacity. :+1:
Thanks for sharing. 
I don’t see any problem since capacity is as it says on the battery.
The only complaint for now is that they can’t been connected in series.
I can’t get my light blue ones in series either, it is close but the top is just a bit too shallow. A very low solder blob solved it.
The same is true of the regular ones, so no change there. I just add a solder blob.
I use magnets when I need to connect in series and batteries are flat top, this is just a notice that they could make it to be connected in series like some other factories that make same things like Keeppower or Sanyo.
I don’t see any problem either. I was simply stating they did not seem above rated capacity, as the light blue ones were.
About half of my light blue ones will work in series. I do not think any of these were designed to work in series…… it just happens that some do.
A shame they did not just raise the flattop a tiny bit as part of the design, so they would all work in series.
Sorry, but this stuff is not philistine consumer market oriented. Li-ion cells were not meant to be removable or electronically unsupervised.
Cells don't work in series? They're designed that way! If you can't figure out how to solve that, you are not the target consumer of the product. 
Hope they've changed the cell to the one from Hengji Battery, at worst.
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Amen to that!! :+1: . At the very worst…… :person_facepalming: … (nothing worse than it in other words… )
What do you think when connecting this 26650 in series instead of 1 magnet to use 2 or 3… I suppose it will raise a resistance but it will also raise a current flow I guess… What you think about this ?
I personally do not like or do not use magnets. IF for some reason I did… I would use 1.
I personally find a simple solder boob or one of THESE much easier to use and deal with on my LiitoKala 26650’s that do not work in series.
Or any other batteries for that matter.