Ultrafire Li-ion 18650 3000mah Battery in a Silver Bullet??

[crispysaturn]

Title says it all - can these be used???

Ridiculous cheap on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Ultrafire-Li-ion-18650-3000mah-Battery/dp/B0035H58GG/ref=pd_bxgy_p_text_b

 

[Hoosier]

Can they be used, yes.

"Should" they be used is a different question and answer. These batteries do not have good test results from the Candle Power forum's posters. A couple posts say that at 0.5 A discharge the actual capacity is half of the listed. (It would take a 7.4 Ohm atomizer to only get 0.5A.) And it appears that the discharge curves go to complete crap when the discharge is pushed above 1A, like from less than 3.7 Ohm atomizer, so for normal vaping there will be voltage clipping and reduced battery lifetime.

These appear to be typical cheap Li-Ion 18650 batteries with misleading labeling. They will not hurt your Silver Bullet as long as the protection circuitry is operational, but using something less than 3.7 Ohms will strain that protection circuitry.

 

[Mudflap]

Ultrafire is a distributor and not a manufacturer. According to a lot of what I've read, "they can put their label on whatever cells they want, from whoever they source their cells from. This apparently includes recycled cells, as well." [source] I won't state anything as fact since I'm a consumer just like you searching out accurate information, but I'd urge you to be cautious as to what batteries you choose to use in your PV.