Protection: Over charge, over discharge, over current and short circuit.
Protected 16340 (CR123) sized batteries with a nice current output.
The curves tracks fairly well. The batteries handles 2A, but 3A is a bit much.
I did not succeed in tripping the over current protection, it will probably trip on a direct short. The over discharge protection is still very useful.
Conclusion
The battery has good capacity and can deliver a fair amount of current, but it not a high current cell.
Notes and links
The batteries was supplied by Shockli.com for review.
I’m still on the lookout for a cell of the performance of the AW 16340 “15C” that you tested two years ago but is long ago discontinued. This one is not it, but do you have 16340 cells in the pipeline that may have that current performance?
Yes they look decent but only the AW 15C was able to run at 5A (and thus make 1400 lumen OTF of a pocket EDC, which is completely unneccessary and a lot of fun).
I don’t know if the stock is the “real”, but in Alibaba there’s a lot of places with them aparently!
EDIT: “you have dialed the wrong number…” :person_facepalming: I imagined a T after “AW”, as moderator007 stated below… I gotta sleep :person_facepalming:
BTW, HKJ, for the 16340s, I believe you’ll have the Sofirn 900mAh, right?
Funny enough, seeing HKJ tests of both batteries (AW and AWT linked above) measuring them on 3A and 5A, the AWT seems to hang a little better.
Am I wrong on that reading? :zipper_mouth_face:
The 15C version is labeled as 15C, and that label makes it different from the ‘normal’ AW 550mAh 16340 cell, no other visual differences. The batteries in the link do not have the lebel, and it is also not mentioned in the description.
I have tried to order there, but it did not work for me. I can’t remember what went wrong, it was a few months ago, probably no stock despite the listing.
I checked them again and indeed they seem to still have them in stock (for some time already because AW stopped making batteries more than a year ago because of some disaster at their facility), but including everything, to buy two of these batteries costs me 30 euro’s (33 dollar), and I would still be nervous if they do not send me the non-15C version. Thanks for the link though
Thanks for HKJ’s hard work, I have a question for “Protected 16340 (CR123) sized batteries with a nice current output.”,sorry i do not give you the specifications. the shockli 16340 700mah is unprotected battery.