PM incoming about mailing options, depending on the length of unopened pack’s I may be able to provide you padded mailers for single packs, I have several dozen.
USPS will mail them to you for free though.
First round of packs will be shipped today. Opened 3 more packs last night. All of them were sanyo UR18650FM. Did not test each one but several at random and they were all above 4v.
your laptop battery supplier wouldn’t happen to be able to get his hands on some 2.5” sata laptop drives would he?
How many do you need?
P.m. sent
They’ll give you the packaging free if you go get them but if you try to order some to your house they’ll still charge shipping. It’s the govt. what’d you expect lol.
The packs are right at 9inches.
PM sent.
Priority flat rate packaging is free, including shipping, like it's always been, or at least for the last 4 years that I've been having them sent free to my house.
USPS is awesome. Hopefully conservatives fail in their attempts to drive it into privatization.
I’d be interested in 2 or 3 also depending upon price and capacity.
About one hundred have went out. Stuff shipped this morning will get tracking numbers out asap.
Thank you for doing this for the community. Sure is a LOT of battery capacity you are sitting on. None for me though :-)
re: bubble padded envelopes…
it may be location dependent but for my area they’re never stocked at the postal offices.
I’ve been to at least 3 or 4 locations and they all tell me the same thing, it’s free but
you gotta order online. And yes free shipping. Just ordered another batch as I’m running low.
Have another 5 boxes coming my way. Not sure on the count but they are not small lol. So speaking from a stock stand point I have more than when I started.
Boom…got em in
Daggum…a WHOLE LOTTA batteries!!!
charging em now…thanks a bunch
Me too! Ripped open my first pack and just charged them… Running one through my hobby charger for capacity now. I had to buy two more Nitecore i4 chargers to even hope to charge these puppies in a reasonable fashion. So excited!
These look like the battery pack for my old ThinkPad T60 that I used to have. Pulled some nice blue-top Sanyo cells from mine.
Let me know how they end up for you guys.
The first cell I tested measured in at ~2000mAh. This was a Sanyo UR18650FM cell, so it works out to be 76% usable capacity vs a new cell at 6% of the cost of a new one. (Assuming a price of $5/cell, which is a bit low). Great stuff!
Scratch that. My hobby charger is obviously FUBAR. It was supposed to discharge down to 3.0V and the voltmeter reads 3.65V. What the hell. Still great cells though.
Probably nothing wrong with your hobby charger. The voltages bounce back up to 3.6-3.7V even after a discharge to 3.0V. Plus, the 3.0V is the voltage under load.