Battery:
Capacity 500 mAh
Chemistry Li-Ion
Feature Rechargeable
Form Factor 9V
Rated Voltage 9 V
Charger:
Current Output 0.26 A
Input Type AC 100~240V
Output Type DC 8.4V
On the battery, following additional information is mentioned:
Max. discharge current: 500mA
Cut-off voltage: 5V
Photos:
Charger:
Sorry for poor quality - I’m still saving up for Nikon D5200, meanwhile I have to take photos using my phone :s
First impression: the build quality of both charger and batteries seems really, really nice! They don’t look like typical Chinese stuff made of cheap flimsy plastic, they look very well-built. Now let’s see if they’ll perform as good as they look…
Here are some actual measurements on the batteries:
100mA (lowest my hobby charger can go): 454mAh
500mA (highest allowed discharge rate): 429mAh
I must say, after being used to 200~250mAh NiMH 9V batteries, these results look really amazing!
I put one of them into my DMM, we’ll see how it’ll perform over time.
That’s a pretty cool idea. They don’t have internal protection, though? I’m happy that they more or less deliver the capacity as advertised! Oh, and nice review, by the way.
Forgive my ignorance, but what would these be good for? I have a few things that I use 9v (PP3) alkaline batteries for - a smoke detector, and, would you believe, a “bat” detector. That is bat as in small, flying mammal!
It does has low voltage protection.
As you can see, on my tests they kicked out at 6.3V or so, while hobby charger’s cut off was set to 6V.
I wouldn’t use them in those. Something more high-drain, where batteries are replaced in weekly basis, would make better use of those - e.g. a wireless mic (which is exactly what I bought them for).
Yup, there are 2 small LiPo pouch cells, and a protection (possibly also balancing? not sure…) circuit.
I don’t want to take apart mine one just yet… but I guess I’ll eventually have to, in order to satisfy curiosity of you guys
That’s encouraging. I just ordered some of their 14500 LiFePO4 cells and plan to compare them to the Coolook brand. My only problem is it does not appear that my Maha C777plus-II will run a discharge test on LiFePO4, I tried with the Coolook cells, but it didn’t co-operate with me. I hope Fasttech SKU’s some decent Hobby Chargers soon as well.
I have the soshine 14500life and for me they are crap. About 500mAh and unprotected so I have no use for them and stick with my nitecore 14500. I have just made 3 cycles with hobby charger and now they are laying since weeks next to it waiting for better times.
I have barely no use of 9V blocks, just in DMM and in the firewarner. Both applications I don’t gonna use them.
But I still would like to see a picture of the innards…
I didn’t know NiteCore made a LiFePO4 cell? I thought 500mAh was about right for a LiFePO4 AA cell, what was yours rated for? And I wasn’t aware having protected LiFePO4 chemistry in a AA cell was important, I thought it was a very safe chemistry? Oops, I just noticed this is taking the thread off topic, my apologies, I won’t say anymore……
