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

Thanks Barkuti!! :wink:
I guess that is relevant enough, despite my great ignorance about those readings!! Hum, Iā€™m gonna risk on the Pkell, buy 2 and hope they are nice enough to the incoming flashlight :wink:
Unless others like the ā€œOn the Roadā€ are sold in any place, but I donā€™t think soā€¦

Muchas gracias :+1:

Something for a side note. The Windyfire IMR16340 600mAh cells clearly look like the TrustFires, and it also happens that the TrustFire and Windyfire IMR14500s look and had similar performance in the reviews.

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Ditto!

I get my batteries from Aussie eBay seller supersports600. A big more expensive than from China options, but the 3 day delivery and customer service is worth it! He is involved with Keeppower so knows his stuff!
http://stores.ebay.com.au/supersports600

Max continuous discharge current is only listed as 2A though, which is too low for my liking. That said, I still have no idea what max discharge current is on the Lumintop 650mAH batteries I bought. Canā€™t seem to find any info in relation to this on my internet search.

Max. Continuous Discharging Current: 2C

Thanks for this info. I have saved him on my ebay profile, always good to have another reliable source of battery supplier. :smiley:

I contacted Neal about the On The Road 16340 battery.
He was surprised when i said they were one of the best (high capacity and current), ad asked for some more test results.
So iā€™m looking for test results, canā€™t remember where i saw reviews of that battery.
Maybe it was a Youtube review, iā€™ll have a look in my ā€˜watch historyā€™.
But i think it would be great if Neal could source those cells (either with or without the OTR wrapper).
Maybe you guys can help finding test results.

I recall seeing something on David Sunshine channel, in his review of the OTR M3! Canā€™t be sure (and canā€™t check now as Iā€™m not on the computer)!

Yeah, thatā€™s where i got the high capacity measurements from.
He says itā€™s 799 mAh.
But another (more recent) review i just watched says itā€™s 600mAh.
So now iā€™m not so sure anymoreā€¦ :person_facepalming:

By the way, i got 4x ā€œPKcellā€ 16340 in yesterday, they seem to hold up fairly well in the M3.
I will try to do some tests later.

These are 2 reviews that analyse the battery. The first one is about the OTR U16, and the second about the M3.
Maybe it was here youā€™ve seen it?

Also, a quick insight on the batteryā€™s voltage, in their branded charger: ENEDED .
And this post from The Miller about the capacity: Are these OTR M3 runtimes normal? - #7 by The_Miller .

Last week I sent PM to Neal asking about the same thing, about if he sells good 16340ā€™s!

To not overload him with PMs and all that stuff, if you are in contact with him, can you take care of this and them return with some answers, please?

Iā€™d be interested to get some good 16340s and of the OTR is one of the best, and he can arrange some, letā€™s do it!

Yes, please tell something about those too!
I ordered a 16340 flashlight (Jaxmnve M3, on AliExpress) and wanna buy some cells. But canā€™t be sure if the PKCell are good or if I should try the Trustfire IMR. So, if you have some insight on those, let us know please :wink:

I still use a few aw 16340ā€™s (red ones) not the best but working fine in all of my highish drain 16340 lights.

I received the two Lumintop 16340 batteries purchased from AliExpress as well a couple of days ago. Will pop them in my Liitokala Lii-500 charger to check capacity.

Lumintop 16340 batteries capacity: 676mAh & 686mAh.

Thatā€™s great.

When you pop them into your M3, do you visually see a difference in light output between high and turbo?

Okay, so i did a NOR test on my Lii-500 with the 4 PKcells.
Theyā€™re all around 700mAh, may improve a little because they were brand new.
The internal resistance guestimate of the Lii-500 are inconsistent wild guesses, so it doesnā€™t mean too much, but it seems these PKcells are a little better in that regard than Sanyo 14500.
I think these PKcells are similar in performance to their 14500 cells.

My M3 draws 2.28 A on ā€˜turboā€™ (according to my UNI-T clamp meter) with a freshly charged PKcell,
with a ā€˜half fullā€™ cell (3.6 Volts without load) itā€™s 2.24 A.
with a 3.5 Volts (without load) cell itā€™s 2.05 A on the clamp meter.

So this is where it apparently starts to suffer from the sag too much. :frowning:

I will calculate the internal resistance now, iā€™ll get back to you with that.

Just remembered the Windyfire brand market its cells by themselves: http://www.windyfire.com/windyfire-imr-16340-600mah-3a-button-2pcs.html

http://www.windyfire.com/windyfire-imr-16340-600mah-37v-3a.html -> In the past you had to ask for a cheap shipping quote. They may still do it for those of you outside of the countries listed in the above link.

Cheers

And the plot thickens :smiley:

Thanks for the test Jerommel and the heads up on their site Barkuti!

Letā€™s see if the PkCell and the Lumintop worth a try. It they are nice, why not?
If they are not, Windyfire may be an optionā€¦or the Trustfire IMRā€¦or the AWT IMRā€¦or the On The Road :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:

Okay, i calculated the internal resistance of one of my PKcells, i think i did it right.

The Voltage of the cell was 3.5 V without load.
I put on a load with a 1.35 Ī© resistor, giving a Voltage of 3.2 Volts over the resistor, I=U:R so the current was 3.2 V : 1.35 Ī© = 2.37 A
Now i can calculate the total resistance. R=U:I so R = 3.5 V : 2.37 A = 1.47 Ī©
Subtract the 1.35 Ī© from that, so 1.47 - 1.35 = 0.12 Ohm or 120mĪ©

When I (current) is 2.3 A (M3 turbo mode) P (power) wasted as heat in the battery is P=IĀ²Ć—R ā€”> IĀ² = 5.29 ā€”> 5.29 Ɨ 0.12 Ī© = 0.63 Watt heating up the battery, which is nothing to worry about i.m.o.

Anyway, with Ri=120mĪ© this is not a high drain cell at allā€¦

PS: The numbers could be off by 15% (or something) due to my equipment.

Unfortunately the batteries got to me first from AliExpress, even though I ordered the OTR M3 from GearBest at least a good few days before the batteries. Hopefully the M3 will turn up next week. :wink: