I can explain why this went over your head:you aren’t affected every day by supply and demand, as I am. I seriously am amazed at how seemingly intelligent, successful people do not grasp the reality of supply and demand. If you don’t, the implication gies over your head. Anytime, anytime demand is raised without furiously pumping up supply, the price goes up. Supply cannot quickly go up for an emerging technology of the next generation safer (under gunfire) and higher energy dense batteries. I see two believable techs. Probably, the rest are hype. I also see incredible military applications, who probably will pay many fold more than the EV market, at least in the short term. This will keep the current tech alive a bit longer in the consumer field. So, imr 21700 will have time for a foothold before something 2x or 3x more energy dense emerges. Supply limited on new tech, military dollar demand is probably larger than one would imagine. Sion’s website already hints at this.
Yeah but Barkuti’s link works with no shortener, he must know something we don’t.
Back on topic it would seem that the 21700 and 20700 size cell may replace the 18650 for high discharge applications, more and more companies seem to be getting on board and the cells that are coming out are pretty impressive. I still want to see Sony come out with a 21700 high discharge cell, so far they have been the leader in performance with the VTC5A so a 21700 sized cell with that tech would be quite a thing. Although maybe I’m just the crazy person who wants to build more and more extreme hand warmers that happen to also emit light and cells like the 48G will be more popular to make longer runtime lights.
Yeah I noticed that, no 3rd party tests or easily searchable datasheets for them yet so I wonder how it compares to the Sanyo cells, probably has better discharge properties though considering most Sanyo cells are budget cells with meh performance and high discharge LG cells are generally pretty good. Maybe I can squeeze an amp or two more out of them into a Storm of Ra, at least until the 30Ts come out. Not that there is any reason to do that, OK yeah I may have a problem with building lights that push high discharge battery tech, but all these new cells have gotten me excited to see what crazy pocket nukes can be built, pushing hand warmers that also happen to emit light to the limit!
Waited more than 3 weeks for FT to ship the INR21700-48G. So I cancelled the buy.
Then I found it in a small brick-and-mortar vape shop in Hilversum, 12 ml from home.
And here it is, and going into the Warsun whose body I reamed to 21.4mm.