Here in Korea it seems to be a bit of a chore locating an unprotected battery. I cannot order them because customs turns them back to the sender... problem is, I just ordered an iTaste SVD and it is in the mail as of 3 days ago.
I found some UltraFire 18650's advertised as 3000mAh and unprotected on gmarket.co.kr, however they sent me "UltraFire TR 3200mAh 3.7v" batteries instead. The heat shrink on these batteries states that there is indeed a protection PCB in them, however I have removed the shrink on one and found no evidence of such. I have included a picture, can someone please shed some light on this? I would really like to fire up the SVD as soon as I get it, but I don't want to use funky batteries in it. I have read here in the battery info sections that UltraFire is generally crap, but I was hoping they'd at least be good enough to get me started.
Thanks in advance!
-Ryan
I found some UltraFire 18650's advertised as 3000mAh and unprotected on gmarket.co.kr, however they sent me "UltraFire TR 3200mAh 3.7v" batteries instead. The heat shrink on these batteries states that there is indeed a protection PCB in them, however I have removed the shrink on one and found no evidence of such. I have included a picture, can someone please shed some light on this? I would really like to fire up the SVD as soon as I get it, but I don't want to use funky batteries in it. I have read here in the battery info sections that UltraFire is generally crap, but I was hoping they'd at least be good enough to get me started.
Thanks in advance!
-Ryan