18650 Battery Ratings and Performance Table

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You are responsible for your own safety!

These batteries are designed, manufactured, and sold only for use in a battery pack with the proper protection circuitry and battery management system. They were not designed for vaping (electronic cigarette) use or for use without protection circuitry. Use of these batteries is AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Misusing or mishandling lithium-ion batteries can pose a SERIOUS RISK of personal injury or property damage.

  • Only buy batteries from a known, trusted vendor of genuine batteries.
  • Never use a battery, charger, or device that is not in perfect working order.
  • The plastic battery wrap and top insulating ring must always be kept in perfect condition to prevent short-circuiting of the battery which can result in the battery bursting.
  • Never exceed the battery's continuous discharge rating (CDR) or charge rating.
I am not responsible for any damage or injury sustained by anyone using this table to select a battery.

The table below only shows the ratings for batteries at the time I tested them. For any battery not in a Samsung, Sony, LG, Panasonic, Molicel, or Sanyo plastic wrap the battery being used can change at any time! This is one of the hazards of using “rewrapped” batteries. To avoid this issue only use genuine Samsung, Sony, LG, Panasonic, or Sanyo batteries in their original plastic wraps.


This table will be updated as additional batteries are tested.

18650 Ratings Table

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Hey Moochy...

I just noticed that you added a "my CDR" line for direct, MFG CDR comparison. An excellent idea for "at-a-glance" reference.
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@Mooch, thanks for posting this. My head spins every time I see test graphs for any particular battery, when really, the only thing I want to know is the info you provided. ie: will xx battery potentially vent if the button gets stuck on my mod with the particular coil build I'm using at the time.
 
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Thanks for the info. At least you are looking out for the clueless battery user like myself. I just started using replaceable battery mods and luckily found your previous chart to aid me in making a decision as to what batteries to buy. I purchased the batteries before I even decided what mods to buy. Keep up the good work!
 
I still don't get all this stuff lol. I am a ..... when it comes to .... like this. I just post, and will post threads asking "Can I use the 'x' batteries in 'y' mod?"
 
Hi Mooch and thanks for the charts, much appreciated!

I just bought 12 Samsung 25R5's and I have before read your tests of the 25R2 and 25R5, but ive just now seen this chart, and there I noticed that there's a difference in between 25R2 and 25R5 on the 25a column; the 25R2 is yellow but the 25R5 is brown... Since both cells showed 90C for 25a shouldn't they both be brown?

Nitpicking I know! :) ...Or maybe i'm missing something here... ?

Thanks in advance!
 
Great work man. You def deserve some compensation.
Quick dumb question. I have a rx200. I vape on Herakles plus .4 coil @ 70 watt sometime 82 watts. Basically I want the Max mah I can get. So if I went with batteries with per say 10 amps. Will 3 batteries make it a total of 30 amps? Just a hypothetical. Most likely I will go with a more amps.
 
I have an RX200. The batteries are in series. That means, if you have 10 amp batteries, you have 10 amps in total. If you are putting 80 watts on a .4 coil, you're drawing 14+ amps (plus I^2R losses on the board) and are cruising for a bruising. Try some LG HG2s, why don't you. Those are 20A, 3000mAh.
 
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Question, on the chart where it says max amps. Is that from your testing? How did you determine that?
 
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