What’s happening is that drug cartels are getting too smart for their own good. Rather than smuggling cocaine in 18650 cells that don’t actually work (bulk lots of cells reading at 0v would be suspicious), they’ve managed to actually cram a tiny bit of energy into them as well. The problem is that someone, somewhere, has, as a result, mistaken them for marketable consumer products. This explains two things: the terrible performance, and the pictures above.
According to latest international electrical code labeling - once the claimed capacity of counterfeit batteries rises >200% above potential capacity, the lowercase “h” is capitalized to emphasize the absurdity
Anybody tried the 4000mAh ‘gold’ Ultrafires that are going on eBay? (£9.95 for 4 shipped)
I ordered them before I did my research and they just landed today. I’m still waiting on my Hobby charger to arrive so can’t test them but I know they must be fakes from what I’ve read so far. I’ve contacted the seller as I’m doubly brassed off that he advertised as being UK yet clearly works out of China. Worth keeping or time to test the paypal dispute system?
I’m going to see what his response is and take it from there. If I manage to get something back I might have to drop CM2010 a PM re the ones he’s got going.
Be sure to take plenty of photo’s, put up a post including the seller id and all your findings, information is power.
I do need to get some magnets and make up some leads for my hobby charger or mod some battery boxes into charging cradles, be interesting to see just how bad my brc ultrafires really are…