just got 15PCS USB LED Mini Flashlight for 38 cents AUD, in Australia it costs $1 for a national postage stamp ofr a basic envelope, how i can get 15 of these from overseas for 38 cents i do not understand.
thanks Bilakos
That’s strange, our country uses US-style plugs.
But many times, the discount codes only work for the EU-plugs and not for the US-plugs; ergo, I just order the EU-plug type since it has the discount…
Gearbest didn’t include any US-plug adapters…
hi bilakos, any codes for 14500 batteries? gearbest has soshine brand here
also looking for a code for some protected 18650s like these icr or these ncr
Gearbest is real. The picture of the 18650 cell is real. The printed label stating 5000 mAh is real. However, the advertised capacity is fake. One of the Answers to the Questions on the gearbest page states the capacity to be 1200 mAh. That is probably closer to the truth.
Its not that its a fake ultrafire, it is real ultrafire…
What everyone here is trying to tell you is that it’s over rated for the mAh spec. As MtnDon said it’s probably only around 1200mAh (or less)
But don’t worry its a common practice for some of the off-brand batteries to have inflated mAh specs.
We just want you to know what you have, some of these low quality batteries could be unsafe. Please be care full not to let the battery voltage drop below 2.5v and don’t overcharge it either.
Do a search on the forum for “fire battery” and start reading…
The battery pictured is “real” in the sense that if you ordered it, GearBest would ship you an Ultrafire battery that says 5000 mAh on the wrapper. The problem is, Ultrafire lies about the capacity of the cells. They will take the cheapest battery they can find, and slap on a lable claiming 5000 mAh. If you were to test one of these batteries, you would be lucky to get an actual capacity of 2000 mAh. Not only do they lie about the capacity, by using bottom-of-the-barrel, potentially recycled cells, these batteries have completely unpredictable discharge characteristics. If you tried to use them in a flashlight drawing 3-4 amps, they might be permanently damaged, or even fail violently.
The current highest capacity 18650 cells are 3500 mAh. All high quality 18650 cells are made by a handful of companies - Samsung, Sanyo/Panasonic, LG, and Sony. Other brands, such as KeepPower and Orbtronic, take these batteries, add a protection circuit, and put their own lable on it, but they are still a Samsung, Sanyo, etc. cell underneath. Also, some flashlight brands may take these batteries, put their own wrapper on it, and slightly inflate the capacity in the process. So if you see a Klarus 3600 mAh battery, that is actually a 3500 mAh battery made by Samsung or Sanyo, but it is still a high quality cell.
But if you see 18650 cells with an advertised capacity of 4000 mAh or above, they are lying, and highly unlikely to be using a high quality cell underneath.
That’s Panasonic NCR18650G 3600 mAh (G and not well known GA 3500mAh), mostly bought by Tesla so it’s hard to find them on market. You can still get them in some repacks (keeppower, klarus, olight, orbtronic … ), tho.
There’s not much capacity difference compared to 3500mAh cells, but I am correcting you for the sake of accuracy anyway. Klarus does not advertise this falsely and then just rewrap Sanyo NCR18650GA 3500mAh. They use here Panasonic NCR18650G 3600mAh.
There’s another example of Keeppower “18650G” 3600 mAh repack: