Yeh, don't get cheap batteries. Stick with Panasonic, Sanyo, Efest, etc. Stay away from the XXXXXFIRE batteries. Seems we all had to learn the hard way.
Thanks for heads up. I’m not that familiar with batteries so this is useful. Probably will just get 3 AAA Eneloops since I already have the charger.
By the way. Is there a loss of power when using 3 AAA batteries instead of 1 18650 battery?
Just got refunded my $3.99 by Tmart because light didn’t come and it was going close to Paypal’s 45 day protection limit. Oh well, at least refund was easy.
But now I have a dozen of 18650s and nowhere to put them :~ Maybe someone could recommend other usable light in this price range?
I ordered two of these lights and also didnt got it in 45 days, so I had to use paypal dispute. I think the price was just to low and Tmart didnt send it out.
If you look at the Tmart site today, you see that they are selling this very same flashlight with a discount, as a promotion item. Maybe it’s not a problem of stock … but they just forgot to send the flashlights to people who pulled the trigger in November
It should be “forgot” Their online support offered refund very quickly although I only wanted to ask about my order’s status. So my guess they didn’t bother to ship them to all customers. But why not cancel those orders?.. Probably still hoped to keep some of the money.
That is an unusual price for a 18650 light, because a good, or maybe even a safe, battery for it costs much more than that.
I had a similar looking light that I liked, but it cost three or four times that much.