{"id":14348,"date":"2016-11-28T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2017-12-19T00:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T05:44:13","slug":"a-battery-mooch-post-imren-gold-30a-3000mah-18650-bench-test-results-a-ridiculously-overrated-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/14348","title":{"rendered":"A BATTERY MOOCH POST: Imren Gold 30A 3000mAh 18650 Bench Test Results&#8230;a ridiculously overrated battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bottom Line: This is an ridiculously overrated 15A battery. It&#8217;s great that it doesn&#8217;t have the useless &#8220;pulse&#8221; rating in large numbers on the wrap but its claimed 30A continuous rating is a huge disappointment. The Imren Gold 20A 2500mAh cell was accurately rated. I don&#8217;t know why they decided to exaggerate the current rating so much with this cell.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s due to a misreading of the datasheet for the cell they rewrapped? This Imren looks and performs identically to the Sony VTC6 (but this can change at any time). As clearly shown in the VTC6 datasheet, it is rated at 30A only if you stop when the temperature reaches 80\u00b0C. Since this battery gets hot enough to boil water when discharged continuously at 30A this cannot be a 30A-rated battery.<\/p>\n<p>The 18650 ratings table has been updated to include this cell.<\/p>\n<p>Test results, discharge graph, photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/threads\/imren-gold-30a-3000mah-18650-bench-test-results-a-ridiculously-overrated-battery.776371\/\">https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/threads\/imren-gold-30a-3000mah-18650-bench-test-results-a-ridiculously-overrated-battery.776371\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All my test results to date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/blog-entry\/list-of-battery-tests.7436\/\">https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/blog-entry\/list-of-battery-tests.7436\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18650 current ratings and safety grades: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/blog-entry\/18650-safety-grades-picking-a-safe-battery-to-vape-with.7447\">https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/blog-entry\/18650-safety-grades-picking-a-safe-battery-to-vape-with.7447<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-12-e1480137513914.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-12-e1480137513914.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"A%20BATTERY%20MOOCH%20POST%3A%20Imren%20Gold%2030A%203000mAh%2018650%20Bench%20Test%20Results...a%20ridiculously%20overrated%20battery\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bottom Line: This is an ridiculously overrated 15A battery. It&#8217;s great that it doesn&#8217;t have the useless &#8220;pulse&#8221; rating in large numbers on the wrap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-battery-mooch","category-recent_news","wpcat-139-id","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16617,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}