Trustfire 3000mah 18650 at Gearbest.

Batteries and Chargers Rechargeable Batteries
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http://www.gearbest.com/chargers-batteries/pp_49051.html

Gearbest has a decent price on some trustfire 3000mah 18650. Has anyone ordered them from gearbest before? I have always received genuine trustfire 3000 from fasttech but this gearbest price is tempting.

Many will agree that the genuine trustfire 18650 3000mah is a decent battery for the price if you can find a real one. Trustfire actually uses a 2600mah Samsung cell in their 3000mah battery. The Samsung 2600mah battery often tests out at 2400-2500mah which is pretty much what you get out of the genuine trustfire 3000mah battery.

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Then why not buy the Samsung directly instead of supporting shady advertising practices by Trustfire?
( mostly known as Crapfire)

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I need a budget battery with a protection board. Cheap customers won’t pay for a good panasonic battery so i have to find them an average protected battery.

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All I’ve heard lately , is that all of the “xxxxxFIRE”

cells are crap and not as advertised. Please tell me

When and Where did you find out the info , that the

genuine Trustfire 3000mah-18650 batteries are really

Samsung 2600mah cells ? :~

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Trustfire claims to use Samsung and Sanyo cells in their 18650 protected batteries. They have been making this claim for a long time. And the genuine Trustfire 3000mah and 2400mah batteries have always performed rather well. The main problem is that there are countless fakes on ebay and aliexpress.

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“This is Pinky from Trustfire original factory. Thank you for your inquiry of our 18650 3000mAh battery.
Please help to check the attached quotation for 50pcs.
18650, 3.7V , 3000mAh, Sumsamg battery cell, unit price USD3.79/pcs.
50pcs batteries, total weight is about 4kgs, shipping cost is USD67.78 to US by Fedex.
18650 3000mAh is samsumg battery. Have in stock. Parcel can be sent in 3-5 days.
6 months warranty. Attached after-service documents for your reference.”

Gotta love that name. Pinky :slight_smile:

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The output charts on HKJ’s comparatar don’t look all that similar to me for the Trustfires and the Samsung cell. Who says the Trustfire uses a Samsung cell?

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I sure wouldn’t sell my customers batteries of dubious quality and safety. And how do you know the protection circuit even works?

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This is as budget as it gets...

4 pcs 4.67/ea

12 pcs 4.52/ea

40 pcs 4.47/ea

vs. 4.01/ea.

If the 50¢ runs them off then you don't want them as customers. They always can go to Interstate, Batteries+, and a slew of others if they think they can find better deals than you selling these at 2x. Cheap stuff always hurts you in the long run because they will not remember that they were cheap just that you sold the goods to them and that you said "they were good quality" even if you didn't. JMHO

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http://www.aliexpress.com/item/10PCS-lot-Protected-New-Original-18650-ICR18650-26F-2600mAh-Li-ion-Battery-with-PCB-for-Samsung/1657571018.html

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/10PCS-lot-Protected-New-Original-Samsung-18650-ICR18650-26F-2600mAh-Li-ion-Battery-with-PCB-Free/1877891856.html

~4$/piece,genuine Samsung protected cell,definitely under 4$ if you order 30+.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/30PCS-lot-Protected-New-Original-Samsung-18650-ICR18650-26F-2600mAh-Li-ion-Battery-with-PCB-Free/32229450967.html

3.67$/piece for 30,but no feedback score(yet).

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In general Trustfire is decent, but Surefire isn’t.
Search dx.com and read feedback. Also dx.com post real capacity, not the manufacturer capacity.

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Thank you for the suggestions everyone. Those protected samsung appear to be a good option.

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The Samsungs work well and can not be beat for the money.
I have run them hard in both series and parallel.

I also got some of those recent Trustfire flames from Tmart in the OP with same exact Halogram sticker and while they work good, the protection trips right at 3 amps. So if your light is less draw than that , fine, but they are not as good as the older batches from FastTech.
HTH
Keith

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This sounds like bad commercial marketing. if you knew this furm you would know @#$%Fire dont fly here.

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dont get surefire mixed up with any of the whateverfires.
surefire is a mfr of professional grade lights.
all the rest are copycats.

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Customers who insist on cheap batteries are going to use them with cheap chargers.

“Only a madman would give a loaded revolver to an idiot” — Fredric Brown, The Weapon

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Some just don’t care about quality or safety. You can’t believe the number of people I’ve seen using reloads bought from unknown sellers at gun shows. I’ve seen some try to shoot reloads with blown heads, big splits in the cases, rounds that won’t chamber, etc. Batteries and chargers just fall into the same category.

Price trumps common sense for many people. I blame lots of it on the school system and society which doesn’t encourage critical thinking.

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I have to agree here. Early on in my flashlight journey I started with a few batteries labeled either Ultrafire or Trustfire, blue wrappers I think, and a generic charger that came as part of many package deals. I contacted the seller and made a big complaint after stopping just short of burning my office down. No, there was no catastrophe, but that is only because even being a noob I had done just enough research to not leave the charger unattended. After 15 minutes on a charge cycle I did the touch test before walking away from my desk and the cell was hot enough to burn my finger. I yanked the plug and put the whole mess outside on the concrete in a coffee can. It was then I realized that while I love these lights I needed to educate myself. I got an Xtar charger and at the time I did buy the Trustfire 3000 cells from Fasttech and they are fine but that was 2-3 years ago and fakes are everywhere now. I still use the few I have on occasion though I don’t trust them as much as my better cells. They are not bad but as others have mentioned there are a ton of fakes out there. I would not sell or buy any such batteries to anyone. If you don’t have a problem with it morally then at least consider the liability issues…