High drain batteries?

[Vapenstein]

Curious if I should order a couple of AW IMR 18650s. Anyone had experience with both these and std 18650s and care to chime in with their experience? Thanks

 

[Liv2Ski]

Not with the 18650's but with the 14500's. The AW's provide me with a more consistent vape through the discharge cycle. I notice drop off on about three or four drags before they are depleted. I run LR 306's with the 14500's on a ProVape and don't even use my standard IMR batts anymore. I have 4 in rotation and being only 750mah they still provide about 4 hours of heavy vaping. I have cycled each at least 50 times and they are as good as the day I bought them. Hope this helps

 

[buGG]

the IMRs are great all around, but at 17670 and bigger sizes you are able to get ICR "standard" li-ion batteries that perform just as well given the same circumstances, but will last considerably longer. i'd suggest the AW ICR2600 or INR2900 from AW or Redilast. for vaping purposes pretty much any of the 18650s are high drain (enough), and with these li-ion 18650s you'll get a 40% increase in runtime over the IMRs, very solid performance, and high quality protection circuitry against overcharging, over-discharge, and other potential failure.

 

[Vapenstein]

thanks for the tip!

 

[mwa102464]

I highly agree with Bugg on this, the AW2900 is a very good power cell, the new Redilast is an excellent power cell too, I just got 4 of the Redi 2900 power cells and they are a bit bigger then the AW's depending on what PV your using just make sure they will fit, check the speck of your PV batt opening to the specs of the Batt just to make sure on the Redilast power cells

 

[Jimi Mack]

You may want to take a look at this..... The Bright Side • View topic - RediLast 2900, AW 2900, AW 2600 Battery Unwrapping

 

[WillyB]

... i'd suggest the AW ICR2600 or INR2900 from AW or Redilast. for vaping purposes pretty much any of the 18650s are high drain (enough), and with these li-ion 18650s you'll get a 40% increase in runtime over the IMRs, very solid performance, and high quality protection circuitry against overcharging, over-discharge, and other potential failure.

You certainly have expensive tastes, especially those two Panasonic cells at almost $20 each.

Here's a superimposed drain test.

The two lines at the bottom are an AW2600 and a TrustFire red/black flame 2400 at 3A.

Can you tell which is which?

I guess the AW and the Panasonics (the 2900's) are very good batteries, but for my money I'll take the TF Flames. Same performance, same vape.

TrustFire Protected 3.7V 2400mAh 18650 Lithium Battery (2-pack)

 

[WillyB]

... i'd suggest the AW ICR2600 or INR2900 from AW or Redilast. for vaping purposes pretty much any of the 18650s are high drain (enough), and with these li-ion 18650s you'll get a 40% increase in runtime over the IMRs, very solid performance, and high quality protection circuitry against overcharging, over-discharge, and other potential failure.

You certainly have expensive tastes, especially those two Panasonic cells at almost $20 each.

Here's a superimposed drain test.

The two lines at the bottom are an AW2600 and a TrustFire red/black flame 2400 at 3A.

Can you tell which is which?

I guess the AW and the Panasonics (the 2900's) are very good batteries, but for my money I'll take the TF Flames. Same performance, same vape.

TrustFire Protected 3.7V 2400mAh 18650 Lithium Battery (2-pack)

 

[jonny2hottie]

AW is far superior in quality assurance and testing to any other battery on the market.
AW are great and the new REDIlast are great too. the REDI 2900 (panasonic) is only 3.6v nominal voltage. i actually traded mine in with the dealer to get the REDI 2600 (sanyo) because it has a 3.7 nominal voltage.

high drains are nice because you get that constant power output. good for 14500 if your lookin for anything bigger like a 18650 it wont matter. the battery life is whats important.

You certainly have expensive tastes, especially those two Panasonic cells at almost $20 each.

Here's a superimposed drain test.

The two lines at the bottom are an AW2600 and a TrustFire red/black flame 2400 at 3A.

Can you tell which is which?

I guess the AW and the Panasonics (the 2900's) are very good batteries, but for my money I'll take the TF Flames. Same performance, same vape.

TrustFire Protected 3.7V 2400mAh 18650 Lithium Battery (2-pack)

 

[buGG]

WB, not knocking the performance of the ****fire 18650s and there ability to deliver the same quality vape at a fraction of the cost, but CPF and the RCR forums have threads regarding issues with their protection circuitry, instances of failure, and variance in both performance and quality control from one cell to another. i really don't think of the AW's or any of the batteries i use as being too costly for what i expect them to do.

 

[WillyB]

WB, not knocking the performance of the ****fire 18650s and there ability to deliver the same quality vape at a fraction of the cost, but CPF and the RCR forums have threads regarding issues with their protection circuitry, instances of failure, and variance in both performance and quality control from one cell to another. i really don't think of the AW's or any of the batteries i use as being too costly for what i expect them to do.

I'm not talking about ****fire's, I'm talking about the TrustFire 2400 I linked to. The one that went head to head @ 3A with the AW that costs almost 3 times as much. And at the CPForums (which is where that test is from) they get positive reviews and have proven to be consistent and at normal discharge rates they exceed their claimed 2400mAh.

I'm also confused as to why AW chose to go with the Panasonic 2900 cell. These have been around for a while and AW's own Li-Ions have usually outperformed them in tests, even though the Panasonics had the advantage of being unprotected. Maybe Panasonic has tweaked them without changing the wrapper?

But to each his own, but if I'm gonna pay Cadillac prices I want Cadillac performance not just the name plate.