{"id":14581,"date":"2016-12-22T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T00:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=14581"},"modified":"2016-12-22T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T00:27:33","slug":"a-battery-mooch-post-another-fake-vtc4-is-floating-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/14581","title":{"rendered":"A BATTERY MOOCH POST: Another fake VTC4 is floating around!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My thanks to ECR’s \/u\/icanshitposttoo for getting a pair of these batteries to me for examination and testing. These were bought from a smoke shop in Oregon, USA and are definitely fakes.<\/p>\n

Here’s why:<\/p>\n

– Genuine VTC4’s have three “legs” coming down from the top contact. These fakes have four.<\/p>\n

– These fakes have the printing on the outside of an opaque wrap. Genuine VTC4’s use a translucent wrap and the text is printed on the metal can. The code square is printed on the wrap though.<\/p>\n

– The printing on the fakes isn’t even close in appearance to the printing used on genuine VTC4’s.<\/p>\n

– Discharging these fakes at 10A causes their voltage to drop to a useless level almost instantly. Genuine VTC4’s can be run for quite a while at 10A.<\/p>\n

These fakes don’t match any Samsung, Sony, LG, or Panasonic\/Sanyo battery I have. While I don’t have a sample of every battery made by those companies I think these fakes are of Chinese manufacture. They are either only rated a couple of amps or they are very low grade higher amp-rated batteries.<\/p>\n

A troubling feature of these fake batteries is the use of a free-floating top insulating ring. Up until now every rewrapped and fake battery I have seen has used a self-adhesive ring. The counterfeiters are learning and we need to keep ahead of them. We can no longer assume that a battery with a free-floating ring is genuine.<\/p>\n

One of the two fake VTC4’s I received seems to have either leaked from the top seal or vented before I received it. There is debris around and under the top contact. The 10A discharge test was done using the other fake.<\/p>\n

If you have bought any of these fakes do not use them. Contact the vendor you purchased them from to arrange for a refund or exchange.<\/p>\n

Please do not send me photos of your batteries asking me to authenticate them! Use the information here and, if needed, the photos in my test report for the VTC4:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/threads\/sony-vtc4-2000mah-use-only-in-packs-18650-test-results-identical-to-other-genuine-vtc4s.733456\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/qSshA<\/p>\n

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