MNKE imr 26650 in stock here

[Gtamazing]

Since we’re on the topic of 26650’s I’m in the market for 4 of them to power an MKR. I’m having a hard time deciding what to buy. I feel they are all cheap chinese crap and I don’t trust any of them. The only one I figured would be trust worthy would be the Tenergy

I’m looking for capacity not amps seeing the MKR draw will probably be less than 2A.

[jmpaul320]

@Gtamazing

Since we’re on the topic of 26650’s I’m in the market for 4 of them to power an MKR. I’m having a hard time deciding what to buy. I feel they are all cheap chinese crap and I don’t trust any of them. The only one I figured would be trust worthy would be the Tenergy

I’m looking for capacity not amps seeing the MKR draw will probably be less than 2A.

king kong are good, but they are unprotected

enerpower or keeppower 26650 both make good protected 26650

[rdrfronty]

@jmpaul320

@rdrfronty

We’ve actually had poor results with MNKE. I shouldn’t say poor results, but they don’t deliver as many amps as other 26650 cells we own like King Kongs. We tested several 26650 lights back to back and the King Kong always spanked the MNKE in amps and lumens. Even my 4sevens 26650 squeaked past the MNKE in performance in our testing.
Now we only had one MNKE to test with, so it could be a fluke. Or could have been a fake, who knows. So I can’t say MNKE’s are bad, but King Kongs will always be my #1 choice in 26650’s.

thats very interesting - my mnke 4000mah will deliver 7.2-7.5 amps to a direct drive sst90 with no problem… my king kongs deliver good amps as well but they lose capacity above 7+ amp discharge

both are good batteries imo

We didn’t do any seriously high amp testing. So possibly the MNKE’s can draw as much or more as our king Kongs did. The results we got were from testing lights, generally in the 3-6A range. Most were direct drive. Basically we tried doing tailcap amps readings first. Every light tested had a higher tailcap reading with the King Kong vs the MNKE. Then we stuck each light in the lightbox. And those numbers matched - the higher amperaged king powered lights put out more lumens than the MNkE’s. So I guess what that means is the king Kongs I tested had lower resistance than the MNKE did.
Now if driven hard, verses moderate DD, the MNKE might excel, don’t know. We didn’t do an “official” battery test. We started noticing lower output on some of our 26650 lights than previous tests had shown. So we started testing different battery setups until we narrowed down what was going on. For example my Maelstrom S12 modded with DD puts out about 1100 lumens with my KING Kong, but only about 1000 with the MNKE and the 4Sevens 26650’s. It made that much difference. Other lights showed similar results. As a note that S12 doesn’t draw over 5amps like your bigger SST90 lights do. So who knows with them.

[jmpaul320]

@rdrfronty

@jmpaul320

@rdrfronty

We’ve actually had poor results with MNKE. I shouldn’t say poor results, but they don’t deliver as many amps as other 26650 cells we own like King Kongs. We tested several 26650 lights back to back and the King Kong always spanked the MNKE in amps and lumens. Even my 4sevens 26650 squeaked past the MNKE in performance in our testing.
Now we only had one MNKE to test with, so it could be a fluke. Or could have been a fake, who knows. So I can’t say MNKE’s are bad, but King Kongs will always be my #1 choice in 26650’s.

thats very interesting - my mnke 4000mah will deliver 7.2-7.5 amps to a direct drive sst90 with no problem… my king kongs deliver good amps as well but they lose capacity above 7+ amp discharge

both are good batteries imo

We didn’t do any seriously high amp testing. So possibly the MNKE’s can draw as much or more as our king Kongs did. The results we got were from testing lights, generally in the 3-6A range. Most were direct drive. Basically we tried doing tailcap amps readings first. Every light tested had a higher tailcap reading with the King Kong vs the MNKE. Then we stuck each light in the lightbox. And those numbers matched - the higher amperaged king powered lights put out more lumens than the MNkE’s. So I guess what that means is the king Kongs I tested had lower resistance than the MNKE did.
Now if driven hard, verses moderate DD, the MNKE might excel, don’t know. We didn’t do an “official” battery test. We started noticing lower output on some of our 26650 lights than previous tests had shown. So we started testing different battery setups until we narrowed down what was going on. For example my Maelstrom S12 modded with DD puts out about 1100 lumens with my KING Kong, but only about 1000 with the MNKE and the 4Sevens 26650’s. It made that much difference. Other lights showed similar results. As a note that S12 doesn’t draw over 5amps like your bigger SST90 lights do. So who knows with them.

interesting - i wonder if the voltage on the mnkes dropped more under load than the king kongs

[oRAirwolf]

Yep, already have 6 of these from EDC+ in my possession. I love fast shipping