Where to buy good quality 16340 batteries for On The Road M3 Flashlight???

Except Thorfire. Their cells are pretty decent, at least if the genuine product.

5C is actually a bit on the warm side, but quite nice. It’s not as harsh and strident as cool-white light is.

At first, it may appear “yellow” to you, but as you get used to it, cool-white will more and more start looking absolutely hideous.

You want real “incandescent” light, try a 7!

Warmer tints are great indoors, a nice “soft” light, even if scorchingly bright. It’s not jarring, and you don’t feel like you’re being interrogated.

Cooler tints are just a visual kick in the ’nads. Now, to me, they scream “cheap!”, as in cheap crap lights that generally go for cool if not cold tints. It’s that bucket of ice-water on the head feeling that makes people think “cool” == “bright”.

You’ll need high CRI emitters to make warm white look like incandescent light, otherwise it will indeed look yellowish and your skin will look greenish yellow due to the absence of deeper red.

I bought the first OTR M3 for my wife and the 5C was unusable for me (muddy/dim/yellow-brown), the battery on the other hand was great.
I ordered the full pack 1C for myself and it’s a different light entirely. I don’t use the charger butt the battery is fine and what a difference in output.
Bright and usable even on the lowest setting.

1C? Do you mean 1A?

yes, sorry

Anyone know the CRI rating on this M3 5C emitter?

With a B or C, yeah, but A and D are rather nice. I have to squint to see any yellow-green on me. :smiley:

Totally agree. I have an OTR M3-5C and it is quite yellow to me, but even though I like it to be a bit less yellow, it still beats the cool white Olight S1.

I see myself in a crystal ball installing a 219C in my soon to be received Thrunite T20T Ti right now. (✿´‿`)

I presume the T20T uses 16mm MCPCB, is this right?

(^̮^)

P.S.: put a 219C on that M3. High-CRI guaranteed!

I recently got a Sofirn light that’s got to be 7A or 7D, as it’s quite “incandescent”, and fleshes out reds pretty nicely. At first, I was doubtful, thinking, “Hmmm, is this too yellow?”, but I quickly got used to it, and frankly, it’s now become my nighttime light (ENC??) displacing all my others.

I keep it on moonlight so I don’t blind myself when it’s pitch-black, but even if I kick it up a notch, it’s nowhere near as jarring as cooler lights or even neutral-warm lights (4C).

I don’t go shining it on myself to marvel at my wonderful skin-tones, so even if it’s not high-CRI, I don’t rightly care all that much. I just want to see what’s around, and not trip, fall, and brain myself in the middle of the night.

And a nice warrrrrrrm light is… well, you just gotta try it.

Ha! I’m just playing with that light now, and I gotta tell ya, I’m really liking it. Even full-tilt, it’s not nearly as jarring and strident as my nice 5000K (XP-L) ’502. Damn, I just about blinded myself with that (the ’502) right now.

WW. Definitely WW…

In terms of batteries, looks like these are the only contenders for me. The Lumintop 16340 batteries is very cheap at US$7.99 delivered for two, so I will likely order two. But these are protected cells and I have no idea how much current it can discharge?

Does anyone have experience with the PKCELL batteries???

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-pieces-Hot-sale-Soshine-700mAh-RCR123-battery-Rechargeable-LiFePO4-16340-Battery-with-protective-box/32802141130.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.aUfkmW

I haven’t read all the comments to the OP but the OTR bundle with charger and cell is really top notch stuff.
The cell is excellent, I really never did use that little charger they sent but I believe it would be good as well.
I have 4 of the M3’s and it is a fantastic light, I was really surprised when I got my first one.
The cell surprised me also, I really expected junk but I can say for sure it isn’t junk IMO and anything under $20 for a M3 whether just the light or the bundle is a great deal.
Don’t buy the zoomy one that looks similar to the M3, now that is fairly well junk, the M3 is in a class of it’s own.

I included a TF IMR cell, did you get my tracking message as you didn’t reply to it…

Thanks for the tip CRX, I got the message of course; I'd have saved a few coins but there was no mention with regards to batteries and I didn't asked. What's the mileage on the included cell?

No problem, really. For sure I'll find a way to use those other cells, sooner or later. If not for flashlights, probably some item overhaul/conversion. LoL!

I wonder if the people here is paying attention. Those low drain batteries will crumble in the M3 when on turbo, limiting output (as I believe it happened to freeme in his review). It also doesn't helps out when flashlight makers force you to use stupid button top cells, though I can understand th€ r€a$on$.

May all beings be happy. :-D

Cheers

I am with you on that. Ordered the complete set when I was in Perth, Western Australia without any problems. You could try ebay for batteries or send EverydaySurvivalGear a message. He's a member of this very good forum and from Australia as well.

Cool… Good to see another fellow WA guy here on this forum. I am from Perth :smiley:

Will PM EverydaySurvivalGear to ask where he normally gets his 16340 batteries from.

Well it originally came from China so about 4,811 mi there, then the trip from me to you is about another 1500 mi, so maybe 6311 miles altogether, not counting short EDC trips to the shops etc.

FastTech won’t ship batteries to Australia. I created an account and tried it, and all the shipping options are greyed out with the reason listed next to each one as “- cannot ship battery cells”. The following message also comes up. Sigh………………………………

Some shipping methods are greyed out because of:
Battery Cells: TrustFire IMR16… (SKU 1804001)