Hi BLF!
I wanted to order more NICE Li batteries…. but I just realized about the prohibition of Li batts on planes…
Anyone has ordered NICE AA or AAA from FT during the 2-3 past weeks? They got shipped and not returned to FT?
Any chances to get them?
Thanks guys!
Those are primary cells, the shipping restirctions do not apply to them. I got a shipment of primary cells from them last week, it included the Nice brand.
Not in the last 2 weeks, but 2 months ago. Unfortunately they have not arrived.
Fasttech now promised me to give me store credit so I’ll wait with reordering once this whole battery debacle has come to a halt.
I know this is pretty old thread, but I ordered some Nice AA batt’s at second half of december and received them end of february and beginning of march, it was split shipment because they ran out of stock so I received them in two shipments.
Im not sure if its due to them being lithium batteries or because of New Year shipping slowdown, but eventually they arrived.
Do you still have some of them, or maybe remember how old they where?
I ordered these again after a couple of months, and the second time they did arrive, but it was some very old stock.
Produced in 2008 and expiration date somewhere in 2013.
Noticed it after a couple of months after some roadflares in my car wouldn’t turn on. Lucky it was only a periodical check so no harm done, but it was too late for complaining.
After this I never dared to order them again, although they are much cheaper than energizer, reliability is more important.
I will check them for you when Im at home and reports back in this thread, Im not sure, but I think they all had decent expiration dates!
As I have not used as many as I had anticipated a few years back, I still have lots with an exp of July 2013. Guess I should just start using them in my remotes, etc., instead of my Recyko rechargeables.
So, I took 12 lithium Nice AA’s out of their plastic packaging to test them with Ebay’s BT-168D LCD battery tester, which usually shows less voltage due to probably applying some kind of load to batteries, it usually shows up to 0.12V less than my Uni-T UT33C DMM, other BT-168D battery tester that I have shows the same as multimeter.
Anyway, out of package all but 2 of Nice AA’s showed around 1.8x up to 1.9x with BT-168D, which would make me think that all of them should be around 1.9V and even close to 2.0V.
Two of Nice AA’s showed far less than that, one was 0.3V, the other couldnt even show voltage(both 2013.12).
It was differently, surprisingly this time, with DMM, which showed all but 3 of AA’s between 1.81V and 1.84V, one showed 1.79V and two showed between 1.4x and 1.5x(both 2013.12), while I was writing this post I redid the last two and now they show 1.65V.
Any ideas whats going on?
There are four more AA’s that I gave to my brother, Im sure they are still fresh and will do check them out eventually as well.
Previously I had bought 6 NexTorch lithium AA primaries and out of all of them only one was DOA (below 1V), the rest are fine, around 1.8-1.9V.
I guess we all should just open up tickets with Fasttech so they know that YOU or ME are not the only persons out there who got faulty batteries! Please do check them with multi meter or battery tester if you can, everyone!
As soon as I get my hands on last four AA’s I will open up the ticket and see if they issue store credit for them, because its obvious that they arrived in such state and its not because of storage or transit and they have never been used either!
Regarding their expiration date - I believe that they are NOT made in 2008(5 and 6 year expiration time seems quite odd for primaries, especially lithium ones, I know Amazon stocks high capacity alkies with 5 year expiration date though), it looks like some trademark date or something. 8 out 12 show 2013.12 printed on them, while 4 others show 2014.08, all of batteries have “Period of validity 15 years” printed on them, so someone will have to put that claim to test :D!
Any long term review takers :D?!
My experience has been they run a long time, but when they do die in a flashlight, they will still rebound the voltage when tested with a DMM, however as soon as a decent load is placed on them the voltage crashes again.
At that point they are spent.
My last order of 4 AAA’s, one was DOA. Didn’t bother FT with it.
They are still a great deal and hopefully FT has gotten fresher batches since my last order.
Thanks,
Keith
2008 was hidden between chinese words so I just assumed it was the manufacturing date, but if those 2014 batteries also have this printed it’s not logical that the expiration date suddenly would be extended to 6 year.
But it looks like overall they behave fine but aren’t of consistent quality. Guess that’s to be expected from chinese cells.
Might order a couple of new ones, see how they behave.
The ones that let me down where AAA, maybe because of their size and lower capacity they fail sooner.