These are supposed to be a good 18650 Loading...
Sounds like a winner. Got a link?
I am not that impressed with these HI-MAX batteries, they are better than the typical cheap battery, but not top performance.
Anything better for the money? I’ve just submitted an offer for two HiMax at $16 including delivery to the UK but if there’s something else out there…?
I would take HKJ’s advice. Bestvaping prices on Panasonic or Sanyo cells are pretty competitive. How long have you been waiting for a reply?
Why not make an order and wait 24 hours (max) for the shipping cost (DHL, I would imagine)?
have you considered used laptop batteries?
they have your target mAh and even the dead ones still have good cells (normally only 2 cells are beyond charging in a duff pack), they will be in matched pairs from the factory and a battery capacity tester is cheap and easy to make.
The cost saving could go toward a batch of protection circuits (something off a job-lot of phone batteries perhaps if you don’t mind the DIY aspect, then sell off the phone cells as “Project batteries”).
laptop manufacturers have been known to place a charge counter in their circutry which will disable a perfectly good battery pack because it’s been charged X amount of times.
I’ve just bought a job-lot of 14 laptop batteries (96 18650 cells for £12gbp delivered) i’m not expecting much more than a quarter failure rate from experience…… something to think about maybe?
start hunting/enquiring at your local laptop repair/recycling centers, why not sample test a couple and see how you get on, i’d love to know how it goes for you…… just be careful disassembling the packs, i’m sure you know Li-ion cells can be quite dangerous.
I have never seen these before. Anybody with any first hand info on them? I have always found Yezl flashlights to be crappy but who knows.
Alternative: very cheap unprotected high quality cells from bestvaping.
Thanks for all the help guys. Especially you HKJ!
I think I have settled on the keeppower 2900mah.
I also found these:
Are they really original? Honestly, now I afraid to order anything from China 
No idea about those particular ones… but I got quite a lot of batteries from bestvaping (UR18650W2’s, CGR18650CH’s and NCR18650’s), and all of them were originals.
Where did you find them, and at what price?
You will be ok with them. Panasonic NCR18650 inside.
I ordered 8 x Xtar 2600mAh from bestvaping.
With international shipping it ended up at 6.61$ / cell.
Is that too high price?
Protected or unprotected? Either way sounds like a pretty good deal. Bestvaping is definitely my favorite place for bulk batteries.
Xtar 2600mAh’s are Sanyo UR18650FM 2600mAh cells with added protection. $6.61/cell indeed is great price for them, best deal previously was $13.5/pair ($6.75/cell).
I emailed keeppower directly and they said the min. order quantity was 50 pcs. I haven’t paid for them yet but I’ll post the price after everything is settled just in case they change something.
Ah, of course, I’d forgotten that you wanted enough to get them direct from Keeppower. Good move, and I hope everything goes well (I’m sure it will).