It's funny but his 1100 slb eGo looks exactly like the 1100 Rivas that I bought Dec 2010. As far as I know they aren't PWM. I have a v meter like his and it won't read the PWM voltage of a real eGo. The clue is his is reading 4.2 off the charger. If you put a LR atty on that device it will soon fry the switch mosfet. I think he paid too much for his AW(?) batts. But my Rivas are still working good at $20 apiece. lol
They probably are the same, as far as I can tell the Rivas have used a few manufacturers. Being around a while I really don't trust anything SLB/DSE. Maybe they have gotten better (they obviously spend nothing on R&D as everything they make is a knock-off), but their original 510 batts were horrible and quite problematic.
Even though I don't like the guy in the vid he later apologized for the test, saying either the PV or the cell was bad. Although not the most accurate PV test the unloaded volts of 4.25 looked good. When pbusardo did the same thing with a new Bolt he only got 4.08V, not good.
As far as the Panasonic CGR18650CH being a 'super bat', it's decent especially since you can get them for < $10. Note though Panasonic's 2250mAh rating is based on "Discharge:constant current,
430mA". What's interesting is Sanyo makes a 1500mAh high drain cell, but they base the mAh on a
10A discharge rate.
For volts.
These are naked cell tests with a 2Ω resistor fresh off the charger.
Panasonic CGR18650CH - 4.06V
Tenergy2600 - 3.91V
Running a tanked 2Ω (actually 2.2Ω metered) Boge carto the Tenergy was the clear winner for vapetime. For normal amp loads I look for the mAh, not some un-needed high drain capabilities.
FWIW although the latest Trustfire2400s aren't testing like the ones from last year the new TF3000 Flames look quite good.
Although only coming in at ~2600mAh those are good numbers, even at a 5A drain, where one would expect the 'cheap China' cell to stumble. Also note each trace is actually 2 cells/tests. Some nice consistency there. Quite 'matched'.
And if you look a pair can be found ~$10.