With a certain company making a extended sleeve for their silver bullet to allow a 18650 battery while the kick is dropped in, it makes me wonder if GG, being the higher-end production that they are, is doing something likewise. Otherwise quite frankly, the considerably inferior battery life of the GG+kick would have in comparison would drive me to go with the longer lasting product in that department.
Is an extended telescope piece or something being made into consideration for accommodation with the kick?
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Huh? How long is the kick? the GGTS easily accommodates an 18650 battery with plenty of room to "drop" something else in. Unless the kick is 3 inches long, I can't see this even being an issue.
Maybe Ripple can chime in to confirm - he is/was one of the beta testers of the kick.
Its only about 15mm big. From interview footage from around December with Brandon, I recall* someone had to drop a 18500/18490 with a kick inside in their GGTS for it to work. I will look further into this.
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the interview was this one:
VTTalk with Guest Brandon Ward
Around 25 minutes discussion about the kick starts.
VTTalk with Guest Brandon Ward
Around 25 minutes discussion about the kick starts.
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Thanks for the vid, I'll check it out later when I'm not in class. If it is indeed only 15mm, then I can say that you can definitely use an 18650 in it without a telescope tube. I know that there is at least a 15mm difference in length between two different brands of 18650s I have, and even using the long one I can probably spare 30mm or so.
What brand of battery do you have that makes an 18800 and calls it an 18650? Or are you saying someone is labelling an 18500 as an 18650?
How about just 1 section of extension?
Kick would fit and telescope could be screwed further.
GGTS 2 x 18650 Battery Extension
It looks like a 3 piece offering,I got no idea if they can be used individually though
Kick would fit and telescope could be screwed further.
GGTS 2 x 18650 Battery Extension
It looks like a 3 piece offering,I got no idea if they can be used individually though
Is the extension kit that is always B/O consist of 3 top tubes?
Extension kit: $52
Top tubes: $17.50 (x3 amounts to $52.50)
mmmmmmm.....
I'm not sure if this was directed to me or not, but if it was, My AW IMR 18650 is about 1-1.5mm shorter than another brand I have. I'm not sure if it's a Trustfire, tenergy or some other brand as I haven't used it in a while.
As for the extension....
I'm confused as to why we would need an extender if it is only 15mm tall. There is more than enough wiggle room with an AW IMR 18650. I just extended the tube to the max (just before the threads were exposed) and there is almost 4cm of space on top of the battery.
Ah groovy. Thanks for the info. I thought I was missing something, or maybe I forgot how to metric system, which would be embarrassing seeing as I'm Canadian...
with an aw imr 18650 safe chem there is just enough room for the kick imo. the kick is meant to be 15mm, unless specs have changed, but even if you used a longer IMR just one extension tube would give you ample room for any brand 18650 IMR
I think I wait till Imeo releases his VV.
There will be no issue of compatiblity when that happens
There will be no issue of compatiblity when that happens
I think I wait till Imeo releases his VV.
There will be no issue of compatiblity when that happens
That's true and we will have a superior product
See Evolv have posted pics of the Kick in production on here in the N-Haler Forum Looks good, made in Ohio USA so hopefully will be great quality 
Looks good, made in Ohio USA so hopefully will be great quality 
There's a lot of difference between 1.5mm and 15mm
I've heard of up to a 4mm difference between an IMR and one of the very long protected cells, but "at least a 15mm difference in length between two different brands" would be compleatly different sizes. 18350 + 15 = 18500 + 15 = 18650
And with all that, sizes are "nominal" and there is a lot of variation, so I was wondering what brand of 18650 was 15mm out of spec...
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