The NCR18650 (2900mAh) are getting old on the market, old production stocks should be available, etc, so why not Trustfire get some Panasonic in they lineup.
Maybe, but think about:
Many people buy Sanyo 2600 or batteries, which use this cells. But the 2800/3000 mAh Sanyo are also available (ok 4,3V). Are all 2600mAh old stock - I don’t even think so.
Maybe Trustfire wants to upgrade the battery line with new 2900 Panasonics?
EDIT - link in the O.P. is fine now. Perhaps it was something going on with BLF going down due to server issues and changes that were being made (though I don't understand why). Oh well.
Get some now. In six months, there will be counterfeits everywhere like every other *fire battery. The Trustfire Flames at least had holograms, which were somewhat difficult to copy. And we all know how well those holograms prevented counterfeiting.
These are just a gray label. Anyone with a $500 pad printing machine can churn out thousands of printed shrink tubes an hour using readily available gray shrink tube and then slap on the clear tube … at least it looks like that’s what they’re doing. Whatever it is, it’s simple to copy. Slap the copied labels on the worst li-ion cells available, and …. Well, you know the rest.
This out-of-control counterfeiting is so annoying. So TOTALLY annoying. Argggggggh.
trustfire might have been using quality cells for a bit now…from the charts i’ve seen the trustfire 3000mah resembles 2800 samsungs…amp for amp they follow each other closely…from the tests i’ve seen I believe the trustfire 3k’s are using samsung 2800’s…the correlations just follow too closely…so maybe this is a trend for trustfire…
if you check this comparison out…choose trustfire 3000mah and samsung 2800…the trustfires seem to have a tad more capacity but voltage sags a bit lower at 5a…
I’m not sure they didn’t just mix up photos. The photos that show the panasonic model number also have a black band around the positive terminal, which is not present in the Trustfire photos.