Hello all, First post 
Sorry for wall of text. tldr at the bottom, below pics.
So ive been vaping for about 2 years now, started on your standard ego w basic carto, moved up to a vamo v2 w kanger aerotank using efest red batteries. Shortly after that moved up to using your standard 18650 clones with a variaty of rta clones. Then moved up to rda's, then up to parallel box clones for <0.2ohm. Now I have now moved up to using a snow wolf 200w after trying one in a local vape shop. Claptons have never been better!
In my entire time vaping, I have always used efest batteries, with the exception of the snow wolf. I purchased them at the recommendation of a friend and just assumed that because they work, and because they are on sale in the UK, that there would be some kind of safety regulation. I am currently rotating between 2 paired sets of vtc5s that I am 99% sure are authentic (correct markings, good quality, has the signiture double bump at the rim of the battery).
At my local vape store, I was informed that the light purple efest 2500mah are actually vtc4's re-wrapped. This got me thinking as I had a load of them die on me and refuse to charge, despite never taking them below about 3.5v. I had a look and they were obdviously not vtc4s. For one thing they had 4 posts on the positive instead of 3.
I ended up throwing out all my 2500mah light purple efest batteries a few days ago. I had 5 left of varying variatys.
Saw a post online about efest batteries being fakely labeled, and decided that they must be fake efest batteries being tested instead of the real efest products.. Had 5 sitting on my desk, so decided to unwrap them and look for serial no's n such. Photos of unwrapping show a few issues.
For one thing, no serial numbers of any sort over the batteries. Secondly 2 batteries have weird spots that look like they have been shorting.
left is a 30A 200mah, middle 3 are 35A 2800mah, right is obvious. All pics will have them in the same order.
This is the centre battery. 2 Dark spots and alot of what looks like machine marks on the left hand side of the pic.
Last 2 pics are the far right battery. Black spots on the inside corospond with the corrosion all over the battery. Also the 2 dents were not present on the outer packaging, and I NEVER drop batterys.
In my time using efests, I have had 3 cases of ecigs jamming on until ridicuously hot. 1 with a tube mod clone that decided its safety lock didnt want to lock, 1 with a side firing tube clone that decided its lock didnt want to function correctly, and 1 with a dual 18650 box mod clone thats spring to keep the button connection closed failed. I have always recycled the batterys after one of those events and used a new pair.
Am I lucky that these didnt explode? I feel like an absolute idiot using these for so long. I cant seem to work out where efest sourced these from, but from now on im only getting vtc5s, or anything you guys can recommend
Tldr;
Always used efest, heard they were rewrapping, unwrapped mine, found weird marks but no serial no, am I more of an idiot than I already think I am? Should my face still be intact?
Cheers guys.
Sorry for wall of text. tldr at the bottom, below pics.So ive been vaping for about 2 years now, started on your standard ego w basic carto, moved up to a vamo v2 w kanger aerotank using efest red batteries. Shortly after that moved up to using your standard 18650 clones with a variaty of rta clones. Then moved up to rda's, then up to parallel box clones for <0.2ohm. Now I have now moved up to using a snow wolf 200w after trying one in a local vape shop. Claptons have never been better!
In my entire time vaping, I have always used efest batteries, with the exception of the snow wolf. I purchased them at the recommendation of a friend and just assumed that because they work, and because they are on sale in the UK, that there would be some kind of safety regulation. I am currently rotating between 2 paired sets of vtc5s that I am 99% sure are authentic (correct markings, good quality, has the signiture double bump at the rim of the battery).
At my local vape store, I was informed that the light purple efest 2500mah are actually vtc4's re-wrapped. This got me thinking as I had a load of them die on me and refuse to charge, despite never taking them below about 3.5v. I had a look and they were obdviously not vtc4s. For one thing they had 4 posts on the positive instead of 3.
I ended up throwing out all my 2500mah light purple efest batteries a few days ago. I had 5 left of varying variatys.
Saw a post online about efest batteries being fakely labeled, and decided that they must be fake efest batteries being tested instead of the real efest products.. Had 5 sitting on my desk, so decided to unwrap them and look for serial no's n such. Photos of unwrapping show a few issues.
For one thing, no serial numbers of any sort over the batteries. Secondly 2 batteries have weird spots that look like they have been shorting.
left is a 30A 200mah, middle 3 are 35A 2800mah, right is obvious. All pics will have them in the same order.
This is the centre battery. 2 Dark spots and alot of what looks like machine marks on the left hand side of the pic.
Last 2 pics are the far right battery. Black spots on the inside corospond with the corrosion all over the battery. Also the 2 dents were not present on the outer packaging, and I NEVER drop batterys.
In my time using efests, I have had 3 cases of ecigs jamming on until ridicuously hot. 1 with a tube mod clone that decided its safety lock didnt want to lock, 1 with a side firing tube clone that decided its lock didnt want to function correctly, and 1 with a dual 18650 box mod clone thats spring to keep the button connection closed failed. I have always recycled the batterys after one of those events and used a new pair.
Am I lucky that these didnt explode? I feel like an absolute idiot using these for so long. I cant seem to work out where efest sourced these from, but from now on im only getting vtc5s, or anything you guys can recommend
Tldr;
Always used efest, heard they were rewrapping, unwrapped mine, found weird marks but no serial no, am I more of an idiot than I already think I am? Should my face still be intact?
Cheers guys.
