CR as 123 . .a?

[techwg]

When you have all brand name batteries that are CR123 running at 1300 mha, when you see a "cheaper" brand have 1400 mha, does that mean that they are more powerful, or are they componsating for the poor'er quality of the battery mix or something? Im thinking Golston here, they are 1400 mha

 

[Daniel_sk]

They can write anything on that battery, you can see some lion batteries rated as 1400mAh and they have 700mAh at the best. Golston have less capacity than brand name cells (proved by tests).
There was a runtime test of CR123A batteries made by a CPF member somewhere (and the Golston batteries had poor runtime compared to other brands)...

 

[LED61]

According to experts, most good quality CR123A´s have about 1300 mah of good usable current inside at rates of up to 1C, meaning a consumption of 1.3 amps, which is the current used by most low output lamps made by Surefire. If you go higher than this current draw rate, expect the battery to use more of its own energy to heat itself up and you will thus reap a lower benefit out of the cells. Conversely, if you use your battery for a CAMERA on pulses only with very low current draw, you can probably extend more than 1500 mah out of it.

And don´t forget different brands perform differently at varying current draws.

 

[Codeman]

They can write anything on that battery, you can see some lion batteries rated as 1400mAh and they have 700mAh at the best. Golston have less capacity than brand name cells (proved by tests).
There was a runtime test of CR123A batteries made by a CPF member somewhere (and the Golston batteries had poor runtime compared to other brands)...

That thread can be found here.

 

[dano]

Most fall into the 1200-1300 range. Night-Ops cells are rated at 1600MAH.

In my graph, the Night-Ops do rate a bit better than everything else. How much, though, is subjective to many parameters:

 

[Codeman]

whoops - double post deleted.

 

[MorePower]

Most fall into the 1200-1300 range. Night-Ops cells are rated at 1600MAH.

In my graph, the Night-Ops do rate a bit better than everything else. How much, though, is subjective to many parameters:

Your legend is off. Those cells aren't lithium-ion; they're lithium-MnO2.