Allo from Edmonton, Alberta!

Name's dubluv....I've been trolling on/off this forum reading reviews and searching for different things for awhile now. I finally decided to try my hand at the LED Flashlight/18650 world.

I was at my local Princess Auto(I'm sure it's a sister company to Harbour Freight), when i stumbled upon this..

5W LED Aluminum Flashlight

At $14.99, I couldn't resist. So I brought it home and threw it on the supplied charger. After the 4 hours it said to charge on the package I pulled the battery(noticing that the charged was still blinking RED for still charging) Inserted into flashlight, and tested. I was impressed at the light output this thing threw out!

That being said, I was still a bit disappointed as the reviews I have seeing/reading for a CREE 5W LED seemed to put out more light.

Out comes the multimeter and sure enough the 18650 was sitting at 3.83V. BOOOO

So now I have to get this batt replaced? as well as the charger.

On my way home I stopped at a Home Depot and found an 18V Ryobi battery pack in the recycle bin. Took it home and after a little disecction I have 10 Sanyo cells( I'll check that again tonight for specs.) 8 of the cells were at 4.06v, and 2 were at 4.05v.

Charged all the cells with my Accucell-6 individually to 4.1V (Li-Ion settings) and now the light output is MUCH better. Each cell took anywhere between 40-140mah before my charger cut them off.

Here's my question to the experienced one on CPF....Should I run the charge/discharge test on all the cells to see if they are still good?

I also have a set of E-moli 18650 cells i scavenged from a cable/modem/router/telephone conversion box. I'm going to try those as well.

Sooooooooooo that's it for now, I'll take pics of the crazy temp-hacked-together-charging-madness as well as the cells for info....and the flashlight as well..hope to hear some insight from the many members!

P.S. Pics to come tonight of the flashlight....so comeback and reply!


Do not link directly to sales sites- Norm

Hi back From Edmonton and :welcome:
There are a few lights available locally that take 18650's like the Fenix TK21 or TK15
I'll pm you as non dealer links aren't aloud.
I think I've seen the light your talking about and I cringe abit when looking at it.

I live in St Albert and work in Edmonton

Can't pm you yet as you don't have enough posts. Try looking at SupplySergent in west Ed, as for advice on harvesting cells, that's not my strong suit

Have a great day
From Kendall

Hey Welcome to CPF. i am from Edmonton too but now live in Calgary. hard to find good flashlights in the city let alone the province. BTW i noticed that MEC sells the 4sevens Quark Mini 123 and the Quark AA.

If your down in Calgary you should get ahold of Gunga. He's a Sunwayman in Canada and he's an Alberta boy too :thumbsup:

MEC last time I was there, had Quark AA and AA2. Great lights for the price

Welcome to CPF! I'm from BC. Have fun here!

WOW....that's a whole lot of replies!

Glad i finally decided to sign up and post...

Sorry about the seller's link...Now that I can post to this thread, I can put up a few pics...

Here's the flashlight....


Here's the blue cell that came in the package, as well as the 10 10 green cells I got from the Ryobi drill..


The charger I'm using


A closer look at the hacked together charging as the charger that was supplied sucked...


The WHOLE mess charging the 11 cells :huh:


And finally the case they are sitting in at the moment

I have the 3-watt version of this flashlight and it works fine.

You need to charge the original battery in the supplied charger until the light goes out or turns green.

The Ryobi batteries look smaller, that's a cool looking charger, I got got one of my Ultrafire W139 chargers from SupplySergent at west Edmonton mall my the casino, it's a solid charger though doesn't look as hi tech as yours.


Glad to see you posted again :welcome: