Test/Review of Sony US18650VTC6 3000mAh (Green)

Yea, based on DHL tracking, it's on schedule. Go figure - GearBest. Who would have thought? It's gonna easily beat my 3 other GB orders in shipping now - must be available for a min amount of the order?

Dang again, down to 696. Hot cakes, I tell ya, hot cakes! Update: 693

Its possible quickest I had was 3 days and it was with ems. They shipped it was in the states like 16 hours. Flew right through customs in like two hours and was on its way. I guess ems works differently. Mail had already ran for the day and mail lady came back with it

Depends what you order as well. I asked about quicker shipping for batteries and they said they only can ship lithium batteries one method

I ordered 2 for now, At $10 each these won’t be used on a regular basis, only for testing the limits of the mods…

682 in stock now

At this rate I highly doubt it will last through the week…

Just got home from my hike w/ Capo,they sold 90 batteries in 1.5 hours! 594 now!!

I forgot about this. I hope it does not hold true with mine.

VEN is from England and on CPF.

Still waiting for my battery man to get the vtc6 anyway, as they are grade B right now(unknown age/storage conditions i am led to believe). So he would not buy any from his HK source/warehouse.

As long as there at there original voltage prbsblt be just fine. You know a difference in grade a and b can be like 30mah difference from manufacturing specs. The cells are fairly new I believe they couldn’t have been stored that long to really make a difference. I have some old sony laptop pulls with at least several hundred cycles that just won’t die. Still crank out 5 amps and maybe a 150-200mah capacity loss from original. I will give Sony that. They make a solid battery

Lately , i have seen a big difference in amp draw , from 30Q (from different batch each one ) .

Older 30Q’s give 250-300mA more , compared to newer 30Q’s , in the same setup .

I have 4 coming my way , so i will make a little comparison when they are here.

They have 523 right now, they had 200 more 12 hours ago.

I picked up a couple as I didn’t have any…. and it sounds like they will be very difficult to get.

Yeah this is what I am thinking too. I can get 4 30q’s for about 17 bucks.

With good free advertising here and other forums it is no wonder they will sell out.

Tesla will have on completion the world’s largest battery manufacturing plant near Reno, Nevada, and it will be in NASA’s own backyard.

True!!! Down to 435! They had 714 When I bought mine last night @ 7pm! They should donate batteries to us for this FREE advertizing!

Maybe it will bring american lithium battery prices down when its operational. If the Chinese can sell to the us in bulk at 1-2$ . maybe wishful thinking but hopefully it will make prices lower. I think its interesting no one has biiolt that plant sooner. Isn’t silver run nv or whatever it’s called the largest deposit of lithium salts in the world? Lithium only forms where volcano’s were st some point

Illum now has the VTC6 in stock for $9 each, for those who didn’t rush to order from imrbatteries.com and paid more, (like I did :person_facepalming: )

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I know for Tesla and its plans fella .
Just as Sony is a company that did not expect to leave the field after so much progress in 18650 .
The truth is that stated Older that will stop the manufacture of Li-Ion 18650 and will deal more with LiPO, but then we saw the VTC5A and now VTC6.

I wish not to stop to compete and naturally …… best prices ……………

Thank you.

There will a big market for all battery technology in the future.

They got them on 8/26 and were gone last night on 8/30!!! :wink:

I charged up 4 VTC6's and tested in my BLF Q8 SRK cone prototype (k - nothing like the real thing, but using it for the driver/firmware and about the same output), and I got maybe marginally better amps and output than with VTC5's and 30Q BT's. Really can't judge them by this superficial test/compare though, but I'd say their in the league - that's for sure. Had them charge to about 4.21v, bout the same as the other cells I tested, but I did run the light for a good 30 secs before doing the test. Technically it's not head-to-head equal because of that. Usually in the first 30-60 secs at full charge of 4.20/4.22v, I see a drop in DD lights you can't recover. So there's potential of them marginally beating 30Q's.

Right now it's hard to justify cells marginally better for twice the price, but up to the buyer - look at the discharge curve for the currents you are interested in, and compare. They seem to align with the 30Q's, just a little higher voltage thru-out.

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The market is a strange place, when supply and demand becomes an abstraction critical thinking sometimes lacks in current. :slight_smile: