Listed price is cheap for 4pcs but shipping is almost the price of the battery? What is the estimated price for 4pcs shipped?
Charger seems to be too powerful. Haha. I forwarded some of my initial findings to them.
- Fenix 800mA (ARB-L14-800)
- Nitecore 850mA (NL1485)
- Keeppower 800mAh
- Keeppower 1000mAh
- Keeppower 1100mAh
- Xtar 800mA
Yeah, a 4 pack is currently like $11 plus $8 shipping (to the US). They’ve been less in the past. Seems like bulk pricing is better, as a an 8 pack is $17 (~$2 per cell) plus shipping. So if a bundle happens, it should be an opportunity for Neal to make some margin on the batteries and save the end customer money… win win.
I experience with protected 14500/16340 from Nitecore and Fenix were unsatisfactory. All went unresponsive after above two years with minimum usage. Especially those with built-in USB port, avoid at all cost.
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Keeppower has protected, unprotected, and button tops in 14500, my choice is whatever would work best with the onboard charging
I am hoping the group deal is a really sweet price. In order to not directly compete with the BLF LT1 you have to be cheaper than the LT1.
Interested.
I think for a lantern, LVP for both 14500 and AA would be important. Hopefully the lantern has proper LVP.
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Waiting to see specs.
Might be interested
hopefully it’s not as pricey as freeme’s website leads me to believe 
I’m taking that info with a grain of salt as:
- the package supposedly includes a LEP and a short tube
- the webpage title says it’s a “Lumintop GT Nano Copper Brass”
I don’t really understand the 4x14500 battery choice…that is 28 mm battery width. Why not 1 x 26650….narrower, could use 18650 with tube. Am I missing something?
AA compatibility is the only thing I would say. Which certainly has it’s uses.
Maybe that is it, but they have used 3 x aa adapters in flashlights forever, and the adapter could be in series for 4.5 volts, so not have diminished brightness.
Come to think of it, with a wide center positive you could use 3 parallel 14500, 3 series AA in adapter, 1 26650, an 18650 in a tube, and with a little longer spring perhaps even a 21700. All would be 4.5 volts maximum.
Not to try and blow up the thread, but the only reason I use 14500 batteries is to get more power from a tiny light, but 4x14500 batteries delivers less current than a single 26650, so I am struggling to figure a good reason to have to deal with 4 batteries.