I am soooooo confused about batteries! What do I need for my flashlights!

Buwuve · July 8, 2011, 4:48am

You order only bodies - which drop-in will be built in?

For example: The XM-L is a good flooder (big spot, but not extrem distance). Other drop-Ins are better for distance but have smaller spots (for example the R2 Drop-Ins).

What do you prefer?

Do you want to use only 18650 (=3,7 Volt) or 2 CR123 (=6 Volt), too? Only 18650 would be better, because many drop-ins work fine with max. 4,2 Volt.

For 6 Volt you have to search.

What's mAh:

Short words: More mAh, longer runtime of the flashlight.

But don't buy cheap crap like 3600mAh or 4000mAh - that's fake mAh - they are much less.

Take a look at the battery data base of the forum:

The flame trustfire are good or the Hi-Max of ebay - both have a good Price/Quality.

You are a beginner - please take protected batteries. They are saver.

Your DX charger:

I do not have any information about it (have never seen a test of it).

You wrote: Deal Extreme. It's a good shop, but often shipping takes a long time (for about 4 weeks), Manafont is faster (I think most users of the forum get the items after 2-3 weeks).

I post the products of DX and if Manafont (they have a better charger, which DX not offer):

18650:

DX

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/trustfire-protected-18650-3-7v-true-2400mah-rechargeable-lithium-batteries-2-pack-20392?r=28318244

Manafont

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/protected-trustfire-18650-37v-2400mah-rechargeable-batteries-flame-2pcsset-p-5560?rp=161376

Charger:

Manafont

Cheap and good one, if you want to charger with USB:

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/xtar-mp1-usb-to-37v-liion-battery-charger-for-14650176701865018700-p-7247?rp=161376

This one work also ok (a friend use it) - it's cheap and everything work. I do not trust the product 100%, but since March it is in use.

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/ac-lithium-battery-charger-for-18650-100v240v-p-5641