Notice - Buying Li-ion cells from FastTech; SGP temporarily unavailable

I didn’t tell them anything. They’re aware of what the situation is at the moment. The Chinese have been dealing with these bureaucratic logjams for ages. I’ll leave it to their ingenuity to keep me supplied with fresh ells.

How many ells, and of what?! the suspense is killing me! :wink:

I meant eels.

I’ve just had my second consecutive order for 4 Pana PDs cancelled and refunded after being returned by Singapore Post. :frowning:

So this last sh is real and no1 accepts liions anymore?

How quickly are they being returned after ordering and shipping?

I ordered just them with batteries :

https://www.fasttech.com/p/1243102

Extension Tube For WF-900 / TR-1200 / TR-500
Black / SKU: 1243102

It’s $6 more with BLF code to pair of ncr’s.

How annoying!! :frowning: Can you use HKP instead?

I was wondering because my shipment of a Sipik SK68 with 2x 14500 was en route.
Ordered Oct 1.
Shipped Oct 4.
Arrived in the states Oct TODAY!

Edit: USPS Priority FC (5-8 days).

The last order was placed Oct 1 but not shipped until Oct 10 because of their holiday. FT told me last night, (Oct 10) that they had received them back from SP. Seems like very fast turnaround. I’ve already received my PP refund.

It seems that FT prefers SP over HKP for battery shipments. I suppose I could ask them to use HKP, but I would think they know which one has the best chance of success, based on the number of returned packages they’re getting from each postal service.

How strange, I ordered 4-18650s and a 4-cell battery charger/pack from FT, gave them the option of how to send, and they used HKP!

I don’t see why they would use SP when they have that announcement on their site stating that SP is refusing all Liion batteries… At least it is a fast turnaround though.

I had two orders in before the holidays. They sent the “non battery” by SingPost and the “battery” package by ChinaPost. The batteries were returned to FT. My latest four battery orders were sent HKPost.

did you obtain a driver that runs on electric eel power?

Lots of snarky comment people in here I missed, why yes of course I’ve received packages, but nothing ever seems to have been damaging enough to pierce a battery, or else what I had gotten would have been damaged significantly in most, if not all cases. However, being dropped several times and knocked around is more than enough force to displace any magic “insulators” you are relying on Chinese companies to always insert (magnets even are displaced this way) and impacts with force enough to depress a tailcap button would be common. So yes, more likely I’d say. Ask yourself how many products have you returned with holes in them because of postage vs how many products you have received in bashed/crumpled boxes? If you stop and think a minute, you will realize that this illustrates the “more likely to take an impact displacing probably non existent insulators and depressing the tailcap switch than to pierce or have enough force to crush a metal can.”

And Koyotee, you might want some functional understanding to go with functional literacy before becoming trollish and realize that relying on Chinese companies to always insert non-moveable insulation pads, place them correctly or even use them at ALL if they can get away with not, is extremely unlikely, especially since they cant even get our orders correctly a high percentage of the time. I’ve found Chinese companies are so corner cutting and error prone, I’d be surprised if most companies even packed them correctly in the first place, even if they had “insulating pads” in most cases, since there is no official regulation and it cant be checked up on on xray. Even if a miracle occurred and we could expect 90% of them to be properly packed, the postage is frequently taking bumps to those 10% that aren’t. And we’ve all received many many non punctured packages that are thrown/smacked/dropped/banged with insufficient force to damage a battery. Yes not very likely to happen…but I’d expect moreso than someone using enough force to puncture a metal can through packaging.

Anyways, poorly thought out snarky posts aside, when someone posted an official document on the regulation, it became apparent there is another motive in this regulation. It seems the fact that a flashlight can act as an isolator seems to be more important, and that fire is seen as more of a threat than explosion, which I wasnt considering, and its being aimed at larger multi cell packets. (I’m sure now snarkies will say they have thoroughly considered this of course, thats why they didnt post on it :wink: ). So it actually does make sense after all with those priorities.

New bioelectric flashlight in the pipe? :slight_smile:

I’ve received a couple packages from FT now within about two and a half weeks, not with batteries, but packages do seem to be moving well now for me.

But yes, as always, they look they took an awful lot of smaller bumps and bashes, in fact the lights tailcap was depressed and when I inserted a battery it was already on “on”. Imagine that. But still not a single high enough force hit or puncture for a new battery to be damaged and vent :wink:

apparently, i wonder what the energy density is :bigsmile:

Depends on the # and quality of fish you feed the “cell” and how hard you prod it with the switch to release voltage of course! :wink: