Best high discharge flat top 18350?

Hey guys,

Right now I’m using the https://www.illumn.com/18350-keeppower-uh1835p-imr18350-1200mah-high-discharge-flat-top.html

Is there something superior? I checked here (Parametrek Batteries) and the Vapcell and Orbtronic look good too.

I’m planning on walking around with an Emisar DT8 in 18350 configuration as well as a SB90.2 light and I want max power and for it to stay on turbo as long as possible

They seem pretty good. Probably one of the best we can still get. Pic below is the Best one they ever had but they don’t make it anymore. I think there’s been several cells that were a derivative of it. See photo below.

And one against The Vapcell that were brand new and the Aspire were almost 4 years old! I can’t recall the numbers of Cycles on the Aspire…but at least 250.

They have 15 amps written on the cell. I’m sure they’re a legitimate 10 amp and were tested at that, at least that. I still have them. One that wasn’t in the picture below was 1020mAh… don’t think I used that one as much.

Run times would be so low it’d annoy the hell out of me. Runtimes on an 18650 would be low if pumping the lumens out.

What sort of amps would it pull on turbo? Heat likely to be an issue too.

Ha yeah I usually keep an extra battery in my pocket. I’m thinking of just getting the Keeppower 1200s again

Like CD said,

Run times are going to be low.

An SBT 90 using 18350 battery that’s like 3 minutes of Max run time at the most. Just a guess.

I get 12 minutes with the Same Led in my K1 with a Samsung 50s which has more than four times the amount of capacity of an 18350.

Ya but it sure is cool to have a light the size of your thumb that can throw like that! I bought some 18500s too. I’ll probably mostly use a bunch of 18650 Samsung 30Qs I bought for my Firefoxes FF5GT that stopped working after 1 week

So my criteria are that the 18350 must be able to kick out approx 10/15 amps (continuous/instant) and have the highest capacity possible with that current requirement. Still can’t decide which cell to get

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I agree. It is nice to have a little light that powerful. Just keep a half dozen of those batteries in your pocket if you love turbo like I do!

Did you ever do a capacity test on those KP batteries? Are they close to their advertised capacity and their amp output?

I think those KP are the best ones you’ll find. I checked hkj’s review and they were a legitimate CDR of 10 amps and the capacity was 1124 milliamps at .5 amp discharge.

Basically the same as my Aspire…. in which I’m taking Two out of retirement, they’re better than my 15 month old Vapcell M11 even after 5.5 years old(6/17) and 1 year of retirement.

Just did a capacity test on a one of my 1200 mah 18350 batteries bought in October 2020. This thing has hundreds of cycles on it and I always charge it at the highest possible rate that my charger will support

It still holds 828 milliamp hour. It doesn’t sound too bad to me

Hmm… on the other hand it looks like it’s lost about 30% of its rated capacity. Whether or not it would’ve measured 1200 when I got it is another story.

Not too bad.

I’m sorry to tell you sir the my aspires were twice that old and had more capacity. I’ll have to look at my records but I know they had more than $250 Cycles on them.

I started a thread best batteries and I have more pictures of them getting their capacity tested. One of my four and a half year old at the time aspire had more capacity than a brand new m11!

You just remind me of something. I have these MJ1’s that after 2 years and 135 Cycles they only lost three and a half percent capacity! They’ll be 3 years old on January 11th. And I’m going to check the capacity again. Have a good night

Wow that’s pretty amazing. So would you still recommend the KP 1200s of the cells on the market right now? I want the best and I may most toss these old ones instead of F’ing around with them

Vapcell M11 might be another option… or the orbtronic

I guess the KP and the M11 are probably the best available today. They have very similar capacity and able to put out 10 amps. There could be another one but I don’t know of any. So I’m guessing those are your Best Bets.

Vapcell now has an A11, although Im unsure the difference.