I've just recieved my shipment of eFest 3100mah 20A batteries and have unwrapped one to see if there's any markings. The answer is no! Nothing at all. Plain and polished metal cylinder.
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The biggest issue i think (also what that German dude from that website probably had) are FAKE Efest batteries. I think if you unwrap it, and it aint a clean tin colored battery, but a rewrapped one, you my friend have a fake one. People who only got 3a or w/e out of this, probably had the panasonic one and not a 'original' efest.
What about this site then? Which is then more reliable? I have been stressing OUT yesterday because after i adviced a friend to buy this battery (since it worked for me and its cheaper then the sony battery), then i started reading the controversion about this battery.
But then...it comes down to two sides =/ One who says its 20a pulse discharge, other who says its 3a continues (so would be 6a pulse or something). One side who owns it, are happy and have reported vaping on it with 0.2 ohm nothing going wrong. Others...well others are just scarey cats in my eyes since obviously they don't talk about first hand experience =/ And eventually that made me mad, because its just scare mongering.
Well lytge-info agrees with dampfakkus that these aren't 20 amp batteries.What about this site then? Which is then more reliable? I have been stressing OUT yesterday because after i adviced a friend to buy this battery (since it worked for me and its cheaper then the sony battery), then i started reading the controversion about this battery.
But then...it comes down to two sides =/ One who says its 20a pulse discharge, other who says its 3a continues (so would be 6a pulse or something). One side who owns it, are happy and have reported vaping on it with 0.2 ohm nothing going wrong. Others...well others are just scarey cats in my eyes since obviously they don't talk about first hand experience =/ And eventually that made me mad, because its just scare mongering.
What about this site then? Which is then more reliable? I have been stressing OUT yesterday because after i adviced a friend to buy this battery (since it worked for me and its cheaper then the sony battery), then i started reading the controversion about this battery.
But then...it comes down to two sides =/ One who says its 20a pulse discharge, other who says its 3a continues (so would be 6a pulse or something). One side who owns it, are happy and have reported vaping on it with 0.2 ohm nothing going wrong. Others...well others are just scarey cats in my eyes since obviously they don't talk about first hand experience =/ And eventually that made me mad, because its just scare mongering.
When it comes to 18650s we have plenty of well-reputed manufacturers and batteries to choose from. 18500s, 18350s, and others, not so much. The AWs have a really good reputation, but I still want to know who makes the 18350s and 18500s we use. My batteries perform well, but I'll never feel perfectly safe until I know what those batteries actually are.I use a couple of button top Purple Efest 2100 mAh 30 amp batteries, but only because I know they are re-wrapped Sony VTC4's.
I'm not real fond of Efest as a company. They often over-state their batteries' specs (mAh and amps). I believe some of their batteries are inferior to other brands; at the very least they are inconsistant.
I purchased a couple of red Efest 14500 IMR's for my daughter's AltSmoke BB mech mod, and a couple of Efest 18350 IMR's for my mini Provari some time back. I put my batteries in a rotation with some AW 18350 I was using, and the Efests began to drop their charge prematurely after a couple of weeks use -- they were disposed of as not worthy. By chance, my daughter complained of the same thing with her batteries, too. I ended up giving her my AW 14500 IMR batteries I had for my own BB.
I really appreciate when people let us know what they find out about stuff and what their opinions are, specially when there could be a safety issue for us. /QUOTE]
I agree with all of your post, but particularly want to emphasize this (that I feel is implicit in your post). There's a lot of "this has worked perfectly fine for me, no problems pushing it over 25+ amps". Such individual experiences don't mean much, we need to pay more attention to actual tests.