Tested eight of them in my two Liitokala 500’s last night. Pretty consistent, but as others have noted, no where near the rated capacity. Don’t really care as long as they cycle well and don’t die prematurely (big if…). Surprised the 250ma rate yielded a lower capacity, normally I would expect the opposite, maybe I’ll switch the units and see if the numbers follow the batteries or the units.
I had good luck with the EBL 9V Lithium rechargeables so far, but the EBL AA Ni-Cads had a couple of early deaths in a group that otherwise still appear fine. Curious.
The moral of that story must be when looking for the next great thing or a “great price”: stick with Eneloops or Laddas.
For many years now I only buy Eneloops or rebranded ones because regardless of price other ones either had poor performance or short lifespans, and usually both.
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I have several of the variations of the old Gerber 600’s and the Suspension NXT that I have does not compare from a rigidity or abuse loving standpoint.
Not sure I quite understand that rationale.
With a decent charger you can find out if your (cheap) battery is OK/fantastic/disappointing/complete garbage, whatever it cost. You can track battery performance/capacity/degradation over time. That does have the possibility of doing your own research and learning from that.
With a cheap charger >>> you will never know much of anything with any kind of quantification or reliability. It pretty much becomes, work/doesn’t work. It doesn’t give you any opportunity to learn much of anything.
I do agree, cheap batteries generally disappoint. Inexpensive, but decent chargers, can be useful for basic charging, but don’t supplant a good analyzing charger.
There are plenty of stories like mine. I bought four 26650’s that people said were Shockli 5500 rewraps… quality cells at normal price. Two years later after about six charges each, one would not hold a charge and today one charged less than half the speed of the other two. I charge at .7 amps, why hurry, and stop before 4.0v. They never got below 3.5v. Even if you buy mainstream cells, you need a good charger.
