The BLF Battery Data Base

Ultracell 11000ma D battery. Ordered on Ebay these are way under claimed capacity. Of 4 D cells 1.2v checked at 3900ma average, discharged at 2.0A to .9volts.

Tenergy Premium (not LSD) 10000ma D battery. Ordered on Ebay these are above claimed capacity. Of 8 D cells 1.2v checked at 10400ma average, discharged at 2.0A to .9volts.

......................... ......Battery....... .Claimed.Capacity. .Discharge.Results. .Cell.Dimensions. .Protected. ........Charger........ .....Cell.Type........
2x Trustfire "Flame" 16340 880mAh Cell 1: 610 mAh @ 1.0A to 3.0V
721mAh @ 0.5A to 2.8V
Cell 2: 632 mAh @ 1.0A to 3.0V
693 mAh @ 0.5A to 2.8V

L-35.9mm

D-16.5mm

Yes Imax B6 Button Top

New batteries which just arrived from DX. I did two cycles discharging at 1.0A (reporting the higher number above, but they were pretty close), then a third at 0.5A.

Ok just arrived this week ...

Did some tests , battery is rated [ on label ] 2400mAh , discharged at 1A returned some 2188mAh to 3v

Using my best battery vampire [ Manafont XM-L drop in equipped L2 ] it was able to do some 3.17A which is quite impressive ...

Mine came from CNQ , I ordered the Yezl and Sanyo 18650 ... Link to Yezl

Im sure if I had discharged to 2.5v I would have come close to the claimed capacity if not hit the nail on the head .

Current price is $4.90 per cell , at time of posting this ..

From CNQ

  • Capacity: 2350 mAh
  • Internal PCB protection prevents under-voltage at 2.5V and over-voltage at 4.25V. UNIQUE INTERNAL PCB!
  • Dimensions:
    • Diameter 18.3+/-0.5 mm
    • Height 66.5+/- 0.5mm
  • Weight (Typical) Approx. 46 g yes
  • Nominal Voltage: Average 3.7V
  • Cut-off Voltage: 2.5V
  • Internal Impedance: less or equal to 180 milliohm (with PTC)
  • Cycle Performance: 90% of initial capacity at 400 cycles
  • Cycle life: > 500 cycles
  • Charge: Current = 0.5C mA Voltage = 4.2 V End Current = 0.01 mA
  • Discharge: Current = 0.5C mA End Voltage = 3.0V

Link to database https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/1219

Sanyo 2600 from CNQ / link

Now supposedly ok to Discharge to 2.75v , I stopped at 3v .. So discharging @ 1A i got some 2471mAh from this cell . [ Ebay Sanyo did 2433mAh @ 0.5A ] So these look the be fresher batteries possibly ?

Trying out the Sanyo in my battery vampire , Manafont XM-L drop in , I recorded some 3.6A discharge , which is quite excellent . [ Ebay Sanyo did 3.5A ]

At the time of posting this , CNQ has the Sanyo @ $5.90 per cell , and If I needed more 18650's , yeah , id be buying more Sanyo's

Ok these are not protected cells , but thats not an issue for me .

Link to Database https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/1219

18650 trustfire flames batteries from here i have done a few disharge and charge cycles on them and they all give between 2300 and 2500 mAh but today i did another discharge and charge cycle with my Icharger 106B+

i dishcarged to 3 volt under load once the charger stoped i let it rest a few mins the cell voltage was 3.24 volt then i recharged to 4.2 volt at 500 mAh (0.5 amp) and this one took 2471 mAh, they also can be dishcarged to 2.75 volt so it can take a little more mAh if you want it to.

this was an old cell with the internal resistance of 163 milliohms but you have to take into account i was using rare earth magnets, my soldering and the main charge cable leads and connectors so i expect the internal resistance to be a little lower around.

i have done some more testing on the TFF here

From THIS thread:

Looks interesting at least.

sold out

I just bought some

Extremely good deal on those Panasonic NCR18650A.

is it OKay to talk about this battery in this topic? or should we make a new one..

anyway, my question is short: are Panasonic NC 18650 and NCR 18650 the same?

or was that a typo?

To not get too much off topic, I just opened a new thread.in Deal Alerts.. Here

Thanks edc for your findings!!!!!

......................... ......Battery....... .Claimed.Capacity. .Discharge.Results. .Cell.Dimensions. .Protected. ........Charger........ .....Cell.Type........
Trustfire Blue 14500 900mAh 450mAh @ 0.5A

L-51.3mm

D-14.1mm

Yes Imax B6 Button Top
Trustfire TR10440 600 mAh 210 mAh @ 0.5A, 241 mAh @ 0.2A L-44.3mm w/o PCB, D-10.2mm Yes* Imax B6 Nearly-flat Button

Footnote: PCB removed after it failed (and I don't have the other cell of the pair anymore)

The batteries above are about 8 months old, but have seen little use. The 14500 has a different label than the cell reported on in the first line of the database.

Typo.

However NCR18650 is one battery and NCR18650A is another battery.

Please add:

Trustfire 3000 mAh "Flames" - 2494 mAh @ 1A, down to 3.0V; 2445 mAh @ 2.8A, down to 3.0V

All data courtesy of Joerch.

Why are the first 25 or so links (in the "Battery" column) towards the top of the list of the battery pointing to budgetlightforum.cz.cc ???

Because that was before going .com [ budgetlightforum ] + 4 more weeks of school [ something like that ] to complete my Cert 4 in IT

But thanks for mentioning it , I will fix it as time permits ..

Reminder to self - fix links in DB !


Yeah, I thought I had a virus LoL. Every time I clicked on a link I was getting redirected to some random stupid ad site. After doing a full scan twice, I went back and realized half the URLs were just different.

hi, i use a cheap charger (ultrafire wf-188) and cant measure voltages, sorry. but i've got a high quality digital sliding caliper so here are my length measurements:

XTAR 18700 2600mAh (average size: L x D: 69.7 x 18.5 mm)

cell1 L x D: 69.59 x 18.48 mm

cell2 L x D: 69.67 x 18.43 mm

kreisler wrote:

and finally the capacities:

Discharge test runs in genuine Imax B6 at -0.2A discharge rate from 4.200+V (UT61E) down to the B6-standard "3.00V" termination limit:

test run #1 (tested: cell#1): 2501mAh, remaining resting voltage 3.281V recovered after 2 hours

test run #2 (tested: cell#2): 2515mAh, remaining resting voltage 3.390V recovered after 2 hours

Notes:

  • more test runs will be performed at higher discharge rates, e.g. -1.0A to collect more data which can be compared to the literature.
  • the test runs will be repeated in future to see how much the cells have aged

TrustFire 14500 900mAh (average size: L x D: 51.1 x 14.0 mm)

cell1 L x D: 51.13 x 13.98 mm

cell2 L x D: 50.98 x 14.01 mm

(in comparison, cheap AA Alkaline are 50.3 x 14.0 mm; this means that the flamed Protected TrustFire 14500's are 0.8mm longer than standard AA Alkaline.)

Trustfire Flames mAh test

Discharged to 3 volt and charged @ 0.5 amp

Cell A

Cell B

End voltage is a bit low on the last as its sat on the charger all day waiting for me to come home from work befor the last picture was taken.