Just curious if anyone's found 18650 or RCR123A batteries for sale in a retail location here in Canada.
There should be some place that carries them
There should be some place that carries them
I don't know why we all focused on Ontario, sorry OP
In Vancouver I've gone to Battery World to get what I need and Lee's electronics for my non protected 18650 and rcr123s
personally I wouldn't recommend non protected batteries
From what I'm reading on the forums. When a protected battery fails it has the potential to blow up in your face. Where as a safe chemistry battery (while not necessarily safe) is more likely to vent than blow. Reosmods recomends the AW 18650 IMR which is a "safe chemistry" battery. Additionaly the spring that keeps your battery in place is also doubles as extra protection as they are designed to compress and lose their spring when shorted, thus breaking the connection. Because a protected battery is a couple mm longer than a "safe chemistry" they may take longer for the spring to compress/fuse or even worse not at all. I'm not an expert on this by any means it's just info I've picked up here in ecf over the last couple days. I have a brand new Reo that just arrived today but my order of batteries and charger from Rtdvapor still hasn't arrived
Nope I meant what I wrote I admit there is an ongoing debate though. I don't have the time to figure out how to link the other page right now but ecf does recomend the aw 18650 imr as their first choice. This battery is not protected by a circuit but is protected by safe chemistry. Their second choice is a protected battery. The way I understand it is when the protected battery fails, it would be the protection circuit that fails. To be honest I think it's really apples and oranges but I think when considering the battery spring is a secondary protection and the fact a protected battery is a couple mm longer which can prevent this second level of protection from working properly I'll go with ecf and Reomods first choice and use the AW 18650 imr battery.Just to be clear it should say "when a unprotected battery fails it has the potential to blow up in your face."
A protected battery has added circuitry to prevent that event, from my own use I have found that the circuitry seems very reliable and is well done.