Massive fraud on 18650s in the Littokala Aliexpress stores!

Those on your picture are button top.

Q8 needs button top to work.

And you crushed them if I see good…

ok thanks… I dont think I crushed them… Only one was tried in the ZL… otherwise all 8 30q go in the Q8 only

Upper one looks like it is little crushed, but maybe just bad angle of picture.

And I use old low resolution tablet now so I cant really see good.

in for 18.
Thanks everyone

You may have crushed the one a little. For a button-top to fit in a Zebralight, you’d have to screw the tailcap down really tight, which would probably dent the positive button top. But it should still work fine in the Q8, since it doesn’t require much of a button to make good contact with the brass ring in the head.

Make sure to only use flat-top unprotected cells in any of the new 18650 Zebralights. Pretty much any good brand should fit, as there’s a little bit of tolerance over 65.0mm, but not much.

you guys rock!

Thanks again!

Yes! If you’re in the US Liionwholesale is awesome! When an address mistake caused my package to get lost in Narnia somewhere, they were very easy to contact and work with. Their prices are great but their customer service is top tier.

I ordered 4 x Panasonic NCR18650B end of march for $11.99, free shipping, from https://liitokalahongkong.fr.aliexpress.com/store/217753 and received them last week after almost two month transit time which is quite slow. Whatever i order from china usually gets delivered in two weeks from most vendors including AE various shops.

Cells look genuine and had 3.7-3.8V out of the box. I haven’t tested them further though.

Are these Littokalas re-wrap Sanyo NCR18650GA’s?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-Original-LiitoKala-Lii-35A-3-7V-3500mAh-NCR18650GA-10A-Discharging-Rechargeable-Batteries-For-Sanyo/32823361232.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.114.4a466362rStd11&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10152_5722917_10151_10065_10344_10068_10342_10325_10343_5722817_10546_10340_10548_10341_5722617_10696_10084_10083_10618_10307_5722717_10059_5711217_308_100031_10103_5722517_10624_10623_10622_10621_10620_5711317,searchweb201603_36,ppcSwitch_4&algo_expid=16fbfbdd-04ea-4eb7-ac09-be658b784141-17&algo_pvid=16fbfbdd-04ea-4eb7-ac09-be658b784141&priceBeautifyAB=0

In general there are various cells under Lii-35A wrappings.
If they say this one is GA - it should be GA.

I bough from that store 4 Liitokala 3000mAh that were supposed to be LG HG2.
My lii500 shows that all the cells are around 3300mAh so they can’t be HG2.

Ok, here’s another one:

A GA with different wrapper. Anybody has this ?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100pcs-lot-freight-free-SANYO-18650-3500mAh-NCR18650GA-high-power-battery-cell-10A-18650GA/32374140512.html?src=google&albch=search&acnt=479-062-3723&isdl=y&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&albcp=266121556&albag=7593673036&slnk=&trgt=aud-165594907443:dsa-42862830006&plac=&crea=64152518716&netw=s&device=c&mtctp=b&memo1=1t2&aff_platform=google&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyfObj8Oq2wIVRCUrCh0dwwluEAAYAiAAEgJUHvD_B

Edit: Same wrapper as Liion wholesale: Panasonic/Sanyo NCR18650GA Flat Top 10A 3500mAh 18650 Battery - Genuin – Liion Wholesale Batteries

I’ve made 2 orders from different stores. Both say on the listing that they are Sanyo GAs, but ones from one order looks like samsung 35E (recessed top, 3 prongs) and from other order looks like LG MJ1 (4 prongs). Both measured the correct capacity and seem to sustain the correct max current, but they for sure are NOT sanyos

Im thinking about trying some out HG2’s or the 25r’s but using them for vaping. Now if these prove to be fake would I have issues with vaping if the max discharge is not sufficient?

If you’re using a mod that isn’t current-regulated, then certainly. And even with a safer current-regulated mod, if the discharge is high, it could get you into trouble. I don’t mind pushing a battery near its limits in a flashlight, but I wouldn’t want to do it next to my face.

If you absolutely need a high-discharge cell where safety is a concern, buy it from a reputable dealer that you know isn’t going to give you fakes. If all you need is 5 amps or less, then even a fake is probably good enough.

I’ve had good luck with cells from China, but you never know. Sometimes it can be hard to spot fakes.

I have ordered six 30Q batteries from the Liitokala Factory Store at the 29th of May

Hope they are real. Has anybody received his ones?

I ordered 6 30Qs from the Liitokala factory store on 17 May. Just got a message today that I think means the package was returned to the shipper as undeliverable, so they just shipped it again.

Meanwhile, the 30Qs I ordered from LiionWholesale at a much later date arrived yesterday. There might be a lesson there. Or not.

I got the same message:

lin zhang: Hello, because your package was returned as undeliverable, give you change the other logistics today sent to you, in the 17th website can query. This is the new tracking number:

Is this going to happen?

I got the same message from “Liitokala factory store”

I've had a couple AliExpress orders whose shipments were cancelled; this usually gets noticed in the order details page or the tracking information page a few days after the initial waiting for pickup notice.

Paying a minimum of attention to shipments' tracking information is a nice idea because, in my experience, sellers do not seem to report their cancelled shipments to users.

Cheers ^:)