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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    The nick is rather small: There's also another one I discovered near the negative terminal: Do you think these are small enough not to be a concern?
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    Charger

    If money is no object, you should probably look at either the SkyRC MC3000 or the Xtar VP4 Plus Dragon, which were the two analyzing chargers that got 3 smileys from HKJ's site, but be warned that they do cost a pretty penny.
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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    Re: Orbtronics are Panasonic Dunno about the Fenix, because my experience ends with lights that are a few years old, and as such may not be up-to-date. But with all the bike lights I've owned, it's been the case that you're generally discouraged from using them as hand-held flashlights, because...
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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    Re: Orbtronics are Panasonic If I were buying a brand new light today, this is the one I'd probably get: https://www.bikelightdatabase.com/fenix/bc21r/ Just look at that beam pattern, it's great. Looks like it lights the hell out of the road without blinding everyone coming the other way...
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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    Re: Orbtronics are Panasonic From what I've read, a lot of the eBay batteries are fake and not actually from the manufacturers that they claim to be from. For that reason, and particularly since I don't have the knowledge to tell a good battery from a bad one, I didn't really want to go the...
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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    Ordered one to try it out. Since you guys think the one that was dropped should still be safe, I'll keep that one for my spare light, and try to remember to charge it every so often to avoid a repeat of this episode. Thanks!
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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    Re: 18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp! Sweet, thanks. They do now, but my lights are a few years old. For the first few years, Lezyne's lights used these: https://magshop.lezyne.com/lithium-ion-rechargeable-battery-lir18650.html/ At the time I got mine, they were one of the only...
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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    Thanks for replying! Yeah, checking the voltage is not an option now, because my dumb *** charged it all the way up and there's no way to know what its voltage was before I did that. It does seem to work all right, and according to the Opus, it actually managed to put more than its rated...
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    18650 Batteries—Did I blow it? Halp!

    All right, get your face palmin' hand ready, this is a noob post. Here we go... So, I've got a couple of old Lezyne bike lights from around 2012. Great lights in general, but the USB charging circuit stopped working on one of them a few years back. No problem, since the other one worked, and...
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