Any chance yet of having a suitable shipping method to my country, the Philippines?
I know some AliExpress stores that sell batteries, but cannot ship bare batteries to my country.
So what they did was to bundle cheap generic flashlight and put their battery inside those flashlight — based on my experience some time ago.
What I did: I ordered a couple of 26650 from an AliExpress store, I was not expecting it to arrive (will just dispute if it didn’t arrive).
Then surprisingly, the battery arrived placed inside “generic” flashlight (the flashlight is bad looking, but it worked when I tested it) — so the ‘generic flashlight’ is “free” with the 26650 battery I ordered.
I’m not sure how to do that with your 14500 battery. Maybe can place them inside some cheap AA/14500 flashlight host, then ship your 14500 battery inside the flashlight host.
What about a powerbank? It’s just a plastic box with a few connectors. You can put more than 1 battery inside If it is enough to workaround that no shipping rules
So, what are the downsides of this new Vapcell 14500 battery? Faster self discharge? Fewer cycles? Something else?
I mean, this cell offers roughly 25% more capacity than all other cells currently on the market. Why isn’t anyone else producing such cells? What’s the catch? Or is it just some new technology that just hit the market that wasn’t previously available?
Not trying to be skeptical or poke holes. Just trying to understand what allowed for this large capacity increase and if there are any downsides.
There was already the Soshine 900mAh 14500, also fairly new and not high-drain. I have them too and could check them in the same flashlight. HKJ has posted a test a while ago.
I think that the technology of chinese batteries is getting slowly better.
Im waiting for Chinese battery manufacturer to achieve 7000mah for 26650, so there will be a good reason to use 26650 flashlights over 21700mah flashlights. If Chinese manufacturer can make 5000mah now, hopefully we will see 7000mah 26650 very soon.
Just ordered a pair from illumn. The $3.75 shipping I can live with. I have a pair of protected Xtar 14500 arriving today from Xtar’s ebay store. Now I have a total of 6 14500 cells. Thanks for the heads up TexasToasted. :+1:
Vapcell, I just saw HKJ’s test. Impressive results, you have raised the bar for 14500 capacity.
I’m leaving here to go order a couple of sets.
Now bring on some improvements in the 16340 cell.
I think they only rewrap the bar actually…
I assume more will be sold with different branded wraps in the future.
(Like the 1100mAh 18350 cells first sold by Aspire)
None the less, kudo’s to Vapcell for being the first.
…and at a very affordable price too.
I ordered 4 from Illumn. $3.75 shipped. I’ve tried them in the Utorch Ut01 and the Lumintop Tool AA 2.0 for a few minutes each is all. Very good so far but not enough run-time to be sure how they will do but I am optimistic. I don’t have anything that draws much over 2A so I can’t try it in higher drain devices.