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Re: Triple v5 R33 Engine - 4th LED, 30w limit, Screen Programable, Dual Mode Groups
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Sorry, and again - not trying to spoil anyones party. If you love RCR123's, go with RCR123's...Those failure modes are certainly possible; however, in 8 years of being a flashaholic, I have never experienced them.
The new AW RCR123s are the same length as the IMR18350s, so I suppose they're more accurately labeled 16350 instead of 16340. There's a guy on CPF (sorry, I forgot his name) who performs exhaustive battery tests, and it seems the latest RCRs and IMRs from AW perform almost exactly the same at all tested discharge rates, with the only noticeable difference (to my eyes) being the RCR cutoff. So it seems there's less difference between RCRs and IMRs than there used to be. Someone mentioned that the chemistries are hybridized nowadays, which would explain it.
Thanks for the note. I don't recall if MD bodies have a battery lip, so the drop spring should have taken the brunt. Must have been a serious collision.I have experienced one failure of a protected cell. My Malkoff MD2 rolled off the 2nd story deck onto concrete. Light was fine but battery was toast, I with I had dissembled the battery but I just disposed of it.