What's the best 18650 deal now?

Heheh... take my advice, for BIC and Dino, their posted reviews worth less than zero. All honest reviews are blocked, all shills and spams are let through. ESPECIALLY Dino, right Dinoboy?

BIC, for example, normally won't allow anything less than FULL 5 stars review to be posted. I've tried. But at least it has a discussion thread. Your best bet would be to use info based on that.

On the bright side, I do believe these Sanyos are genuine.

I think dinoboys fleshlight (no typo) reviews were legit!

Just to try out I’ve bought 1 pcs of unprotected Panasonic 2900mAh from BiC and I’ve got geniue one. I’ve measured capacity of 2840mAh @ 3A and discharge curve is good too.
Have been lucky? Who knows. They didn’t publish my review as I’ve told them they raised prices by 19%. They drop price afterwards even lower as before. Current price is quite nice at $7.08.

Why does it say DC termination at 2.5V? Does that mean it’s protected with a PCB?

No those are not protected, bot these are. You have to get used on chinglish language.

Are those genuine Panasonic?

Probably they are, but I can tell only for unprotected - see some posts above.
In fact I haven’t heard for any fake Panasonic yet. The prices implies geniue ones.

This is an Aussie seller with good reputation with quick delivery.

http://stores.ebay.com.au/supersports600?_trksid=p4340.l2563

Went to check up on an old aliexpress seller I purchased 10 Panasonic cells from and it looks like they lowered their prices:

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/10pcs-lot-New-Original-18650-NCR18650A-Rechargeable-Li-ion-battery-3100mAh-With-PCB-For-Panasonic/105089_555310293.html

$8 per cell delivered. Not too shabby.

Received 4 cells from BuyInCoins, all at about 3.95V

Could you please measure the exact length of those Panasonic protecteds?

Sorry can’t tell as I have no caliper but I can show you this, the ruler and the cell both sit on a flat surface
And it’s Sanyo as per the description on the webpage

Do you have any chance to measure real capacity at some current (for ex. 1A, 3A)? Hobby chargers can do this.

Thanks, great pic! :slight_smile:

No need to be that exact, from the pic I think it is safe to assume it is close 69mm in length.

Just measured on Xtar 2600 and it appeared to be pretty exactly 68,5mm.

Last time I counted, “Americans” includes the people of 23 countries.

Does anyone remember, what place sells Keeppower 2800mAh´s at best price?

I've got my 2800mAh Samsung from BIC. Looks like very good quality, and the protection circuit seem to provide 4A+ direct drive without tripping so that's good.

Came in at 3.75V. I can only charge to 4.2V (these new Samsung need 4.3V for full charge) so I expect 90% capacity or something like that.

First discharge gave 2200mAh @ 1A.
Second discharge gave 2450mAh @1A.

As expected, the capacity is improving per charge. I'd expect this to reach around 2600(4.2V limit) after 2-3 more charges. So far so good, seem to be the real deal. The only con is, this is easily the longest battery I've owned, even longer than TF Flame 3000.

Length measurement please ?

Is it longer than 68.64 ?

Longer than that. It's not quite 70mm, but very close. 69.5mm would be a good estimate without a caliper.

Great, I got 2600 mAh Sanyos coming from BIC... now they sell 2800 mAh Sanyos and 3400 mAh Panasonics

http://www.buyincoins.com/new_en/details/new-sanyo-li-ion-18650-rechargable-3-7v-2-8ah-2800mah-battery-with-protected-og-product-22349.html

http://www.buyincoins.com/new_en/details/new-panasonic-18650-ncr18650-rechargeable-battery-3400mah-with-pcb-protective-pg-product-22351.html