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.
And, the greater the difference between the loaded voltage and what it bounces back to, the greater the internal resistance of the cell. This is the primary reason to stick to unused laptop packs as they don't have any wear and tear built up in the cells.
Comfy you seem to be on a mission lol. These are used packs that from what everyone has said are working well and keeping charge. As well as having decent mAh ratings. Then to boost that is the price. So seriously stop taking pop shots. If you don’t want to buy them then please do not. I am trying to help others out and if you disagree then please take the negativity to the other threads and not the one in the WTS forum. OR you could ask me to send you a couple packs and then test them yourself and post the results. I am not trying to dump bad product. I found a great deal and I am sharing the wealth.
You don't know yet if they are any good, they have not been tested, and you're sending them out to others who possibly may not know how or have the means to test them, either. Holding a charge is not an indicator of their condition. Their capacity and internal resistance is something you should have determined before you started handing them out to anyone else. It's a safety thing, more so than it is a value thing (though the value thing is not insignificant).
Dude I have tried being nice. Seriously I offered to send you free packs since you are dead set on acting like they are such a horrible thing. I am handing out laptop packs to a forum based on modding flashlights and using Li-ion batteries…… It is the individuals responsibility to decide what they can or can not handle. I am not their mother and neither are you. So please stop.
Understanding that you mean well, but I +1 to Comfy’s caution:
A Li-ion that tests at 60-70% of original capacity is at or near it’s end of useful life and likely should be recycled, or at least used in a low drain device, instead of pressed into service in a high current flashlight.