Well, good news on the 2900s! Adds up to one of the luckiest weekends ever! Yesterday scored a brand-new string-trimmer power pack from the home depot recycle bin that contained not five, not 10, not 15 BUT 20 (!!!) Samsung 18650 13q high-demands, all charged to 4.10 volts. Power pack goes for $120 new. I have no idea why someone tossed this away, but it was still in half of the clamshell display box. Never opened.
Then I walked out in the parking lot and saw a green piece of paper blow by in a wind gust. Took a couple steps and grabbed a 20-dollar bill. Thing looks like it has been blowing around the desert for 10 years, but it’s still usable.
THEN my wife and bought our usual 2 lottery tickets and won $35 between the two of us.
So, news of 6 nice 2900s on the way for $16.50 really tops the whole wekend off.
As a side note, I thought that recent home depot power pack I posted about a month ago was hard to open …. This one was worse. Well, it was actually easier to open but this was the hairiest cage I ever worked on. No 12 volts here. Ten batteries on each side putting out 40 volts per side! Had to pull the welded tabs off BEFORE I could get each battery out. About 1 inch to work in or sparks would fly (twice).
Not high mah like the 2900s, but these are pretty cool cells.
And i got 20 of em for free!