i am purchasing a new mod that takes a battery type i do not own. I need to know where to find cheap 14500 IMR batts as i have a very limited budget. They don't need to be aw's or anything fancy. I need cheap and that work. Thank you for any assistance.
Cheap IMR batts
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One thing to know is that batteries are made in mass and sold in bulk to the name brand suppliers. They test the batteries and keep the best ones to be branded. The rest are sold off to other companies in bulk. Branding a battery can be as simple as applying a heat shrink label with your brand info on it.
If you can find out where the cells were made, that's a good start in the right direction. Look for batteries with Japanese cells. IMR chemistry is safer, so there's not as much risk buying cheap as there is with Li-ion, but I use AW's just for peace of mind.
If you can find out where the cells were made, that's a good start in the right direction. Look for batteries with Japanese cells. IMR chemistry is safer, so there's not as much risk buying cheap as there is with Li-ion, but I use AW's just for peace of mind.
Be careful, sometimes there are reasons why they are cheap. (and you might not like the result). There are a lot of counterfit batteries out there, and a lot of the "cheap IMR's" are actually UNPROTECTED Li Ion cells, and you won't know the difference until they go BOOM in your face.
RTD has great prices and all of the good brands such as AW, panasonic, and MNKE. I would say stick with those 3 brands but thats just my opinion.
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