they might be good batteries anyway, but obviously the wrappers with the typo are fake. “someone” just found out which factory is making 26650s and had some basen wrappers made for them, because mooch had a good review of basens. we’re lucky the batteries are good, but i bet we could have gotten a lot better deal than we did.
Took forever (…well 47 days in shipping), but finally got mine today. Ordered on March 2, shipped on March 3.
Big button, 88 g version, so probably the lower capacity units. Came in plain white boxes with an SKU barcode sticker. ‘Pluse’ typo on every cell. Every cell measured 3.81 V.
The package was typical banggood style, foam wrap inside grey plastic bag. Two of the cells got out of the foam wrap, but made it without damage. Inconsistent, random packaging like this is not acceptable for li-ion cells.
I do not have an easy way to discharge-test for capacity.
Loaded one up and it took only 1200 mAh from 3.8 V to full - not promising. I have some radioshack 3500 mAh 26650s, (protection boards removed), beats any 18650 in a DD light for current drive. That may still be these Basen’s redeeming value.
I don't think it is a fake... could be older batch/ revision. Please take a photo and forward to me. I did ask Neal at the beginning of April after it was highlighted by JPlight. He claimed that he was not aware of the white box version.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. This sale has been a win, or win win, for everybody involved. Worst case scenario, if you get a so-called “fake” cell. It’s output will be as good as the label claims and likely exceed The capacity of any 26650 cell that you currently own, and it cost you less. Best case you end up with a cell that is slightly over what the label says. Either way you’re a winner.
Did a kind of discharge test with one of my under-weight white-box samples. It seems to be OK.
Running it down to 3V into a 5 ohm resistor, using the USB power bank function of a VP2 charger, yields 13.3 Wh. Doing the same with a 3000 mAh SS 30Q yields 8.5 Wh.
So it is 1.56x ahead of a well-respected 3000 mAh 18650.