bismark030
Newly Enlightened
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I am looking to pickup a couple of 18650s and was looking at either Klarus or Olight brands. Is one of these better than the other or should I be looking at something else. Thanks
Thanks for the replies. I am looking for batteries, I'm replacing an eagletac battery that went bad in my TK35. I have the xtar wp2 charger who I think was good at the time I got it. I wouldn't mind getting a four bay charger though.
Oh, okay. You'll be replacing both the batteries, and you probably want protected batteries in a multi-cell light. I'd just get something like protected Panasonic NCR18650B. They're good batteries with high capacity, and your TK35 doesn't have very high power requirements so they should do fine. They should fit in your light.
So the Sanyo would be a better choice than the Olight. Any suggestions on a four bay charger?
IIRC, the flashlight-brand batteries are just wrapped versions of Panasonic/Sanyo/Samsung cells. IMO, you're just paying for a wrapper and brand-name.
You do want protected batteries, but Panasonic protected NCR18650B are the same price as unprotected NCR18650B. And only about $5 per cell. Others know far more than I do about that, so I'm just giving my personal opinion. The only thing I'll say for sure is stay away from crap like ultrafire, etc. If they advertise 4000mAh or more, you can be certain they're lying and they're crap.
As for the charger, I was planning to order a XTAR VC4. It's not very fast, but I like that it's USB powered and gives you a LCD readout. Fairly inexpensive, too.
Which continent?
NKON is usually good for Europe.
Battery Junction and IMR Batteries have a good reputation, but I have no personal experience with them. There are other places as well.
liionwholesaleI'm in the US.