Once again I’ve been ripping and tearing and testing away.
These are great batteries and I have selected only the very best for sale. Most of these packs seem to have been in really great shape with only a few that were not worthy. On my tester they are averaging 2350 mAh. If you want me to put solder tops on them I will do that for 10 cents each.
Shipping is $5 for inside the US and that is the price no matter how many you buy.
On average shipping for outside the US is $20 for 10 $25 for 20 and $30 for 30.
I have just a little over 100 of these for sale and I’m not expecting to get more, so when they are gone they are most likely gone for good. $1 each for these is an absolute steal.
First PM’s get them as usual. Feel free to ask questions.
They charge just like protected batteries do. The charger shuts off when they are full. Still it’s a good idea to have a decent charger. The super cheap ones might not shut off when they are supposed to. Although I charge these with all kinds of chargers and have never had a problem. Most of the more safety conscious people will tell you to at least get a good charger and not the $2 ones from e-bay. I have tons of 18650’s and I only run unprotected batteries. Most of my lights are hot-rodded so they need the extra amps that you get with these.
Well seems good enough, I have a good charger. bought one from ultrafire for around 20 an supposedly has the stop feature. I have a ton of faith in sony (I have everything from them) so I’ll give these a shot.
I just pulled the same batteries out of a 2004 Toshiba laptop. All 8 are usable but lost some capacity. Opus shows about 2050-2090 mAh capacity in each. I am glad yours are in a better shape.
These were all pretty new laptop batteries. I pulled some a while back from my wife’s old laptop and ended up just tossing them in the recycling bin. They looked nice but they just lost too much capacity and they wouldn’t hold a full charge for long either. I love these laptop pulls and it’s all I use at all anymore. But they do vary a lot and laptops can be pretty rough on them. I think these are all coming out of schools and businesses that are upgrading their computers. They haven’t just died and got tossed out. Still after testing I get rid of any that are not holding a full charge and showing close to full capacity.
My brother in law works at a school that recently filled dumpsters full of computers. They were all lease models from Dell and with the contract they had they were required to just toss them out. Seems like a terrible waste to me. They should have just given them away to anyone who wanted them. He said it had something to do with the operating systems. Probably by just getting rid of them they could legally swap the operating systems to new ones and not have that extra cost. The operating systems and other software were probably worth more than the computers themselves.
What is amazing when you use these good laptop pulls is how much better they are than anything in the “#@#$fire” range. Not just in capacity but also in amps. If you have a light meter you can test it by checking the lux of your lights. Put the cheap Chinese batteries in and test the Lumens and then do the same with these pulls and it will blow you away. Often it doubles the lumens and throw of a light. It’s that big of a difference.
The number one upgrade that people can do for their flashlights is to get good batteries like these. Sony, Samsung, Sanyo, Panasonic and LG’s will all work wonders compared with the cheap ones that often come with lights.
Why not love them if you can get them for free. I repair dozens of laptop and desktop computers for my friends every year, both software and hardware. Too bad I just recently joined this forum and found out that broken laptop batteries may contain usable Li-Ion batteries that can be given a second life in flashlights.
Up to the end of last year I have also fixed lots of laptops for some of our clients. At the end of 2014 all the client laptop group of Dell Vostro, HP Pavilion, Dell Latitude, and a fewer number of Gateway, and Acer laptops was retired and replaced with tablets. I took about 80 of those old laptops home, fixed some that were in better shape and gave each to all my friends. I keep some that are mostly broken for parts in case I have to use them on the fixed laptops later. I am gradually disassembling the rest, mostly for screws.
The bad part is that at that time when the laptops were retired I did not know about these battery pulls. So, I pulled most of the batteries out of the laptops I took home and tossed them. I still have some at home. So, I opened them and salvaged about 20 usable batteries and will use them in flashlights. All my laptop pulls are Panasonic and Sony batteries. The newest is from 2004. Panasonic are older and have about 1500 mAh usable capacity left. Sony are newer and have close to 2100 mAh left.
Why not love these free batteries? They beat any “….fire” brand. :party: Even for a dollar, they are a good value for those who do not have access to used battery packs and who do not want to use junk “… fire” brands. Especially, if they have retained most of their capacity like your pulls.
