as a casual observation as the voltage drops on a battery or batteries the current draw increases ive noticed so on bad performing 18650,s i have brought off ebay they suffer from bad voltage sag once put under load, this makes them read higher when doing current draw test (tail cap readings) say compaired to my TFF this does not make the bad performing ebay cells better in my book.
people have commented on my TR-3T6 thread my trustfires read higher then say the sanyo batteries and so on due to voltage sag, they dont sag much to me compaired to others but i can agree with this to an extent.
but if a cheap battery pulls a higher current draw does this mean its becuase its suffering from voltage sag, it can not maintain the voltage under load so the current draw goes up. (this is not a question i know the answer)
so this means if a battery reads lower on a draw test then another battery, so the battery that reads lower of the current draw test is actualy holding its voltage better to the driver or led and a battery that read,s higher is not able to hold the voltage to the driver or led.
so is getting low current readings better then high current readings as its means the battery is coping under load much better its handling the stress so reading lower.
this is just an casual observation and there is many factors that will affect this, like internal reistance of the battery, moded or unmoded DDM leads, direct drive torches or regulated torchers or torches with buck or buck + boost, the charger, how the battery is chargered and the end user and some batteries simple can give more juice then others while holding voltage there is alot of factors in this and this is just a very casual observation.
i think most people will not be able to tell if a battery sags bad under load or if the battery is realy good or not with out a decent hobby charger and some testing equipment and will just regurutate whats they have read and will follow the masses as some people will recomend a 6 buck ebay battery or batteries but can not give an answer on the true mAh or any data on the battery at all.
i say these flames are half decent and are great for mutli cell lights and offer good run times for the price and the ones i get from here seam good to me for the price and take a decent amount of mAh and like i said great for multi cell lights, im not saying they are the best but they are not the worst and i will compair them to some high end cell,s over the next few weeks and ill have some more TFF from manafont to test as well to see if theya re still on par.
any way i hope these tables have been helpful to some people as its takes around 10 hours to do a discharge and charge cycle im upto 4 now and ive killed one of my best TFF batteries to provide infomation, maybe ill do more next weekend as it time consuming.