Looked at their store a few times….MOQ is killer for most people, pricing for most items as well. Aloft has them for less than $6, still in stock, cheap shipping…hard to beat.
Have you been capacity testing your 26800s? If so are they pretty consistent? The reason I ask is because I have been having a little trouble sustaining high with my M3-C. I changed the tail spring to a heavier one to see if that affects anything. I don’t see why it should as the stock one was bypassed. Could be the driver. It gets funky sometimes. Have to loosen/tighten the tail cap to reset it.
I’m using an Xtar X2 that measures charging not discharging. Comparative at 2.80 volts to 4.2 at 1 amp charging, Shockli 5500 mah vs QB26800. Shockli charged 5700-5735 mah, QB26800 charged 7280-7330 mah. This has been an accumulative list with 14 different QB26800 cells on their 1st to 3rd recharge. I have no actual experience with the 26980, only reading what the sites list and they’ve placed that cell at 5,000 to 6500 mah.
Thanks. I think the spring was my problem. Time will tell. When I first bought the M3-C it did not charge properly. It would indicate full charge when it was only 3.8 or 9 volts. When I told Simon about it his reply was to send a new tail spring. I never installed it because I had already bypassed the original one. Now that I have finally changed the spring it seems to have corrected itself. KOW.
I suggest using magnet leads when your cells don’t fit in the charger. Solder some nickel plated magnets to some copper wire. Try not to put a ton of heat into the magnet when you do this. Alternatively, crimp some alligator clips to a wire and use nickel plated magnets between the clips and the cell. Alligator clips are magnetic.
Hey, it works and only needed a little cutting. Slider is at it’s absolute limit. This is the little rig I do for comparative charging to get an idea of what the 26800 can do.