{"id":16203,"date":"2017-10-05T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=16203"},"modified":"2017-12-18T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T01:41:29","slug":"a-battery-mooch-post-ironsmith-40a-2050mah-18650-hugely-overrated-vtc4-performs-better-hits-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/16203","title":{"rendered":"A BATTERY MOOCH POST: IronSmith 40A 2050mAh 18650&#8230;hugely overrated, VTC4 performs better + hits harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201c40A\u201d cell is overrated by a LOT. IronSmith\u2019s rating is even useless as a \u201cpulse\u201d rating. The first pulse at 40A on a fully charged cell dropped the voltage to under 3.10V.<\/p>\n<p>The 23A 2100mAh VTC4 easily outperforms the IronSmith cell. The VTC4 hits harder and runs for a bit longer.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know what cell IronSmith is using. I thought it might be one of the LG HD Series cells because of its four \u201cleg\u201d top contact and ratings but the metal can and tooling marks don\u2019t match any of the LG HD Series cells I have here. LG might have changed the can or it could be a China-manufactured cell.<\/p>\n<p>IronSmith gave this cell a 7A charge rating. This is higher than the fast charge rate of any 18650 and is guaranteed to shorten the life of your battery. I recommend 2A charging maximum for long cell life.<\/p>\n<p>I am rating this IronSmith at 25A and 2050mAh.<\/p>\n<p>The two cells that were tested were donated for that purpose by IronSmith Group. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Test results, discharge graph, photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/threads\/bench-test-results-ironsmith-40a-2050mah-18650-hugely-overrated-vtc4-performs-better.831997\/\">https:\/\/www.e-cigarette-forum.com\/forum\/threads\/bench-test-results-ironsmith-40a-2050mah-18650-hugely-overrated-vtc4-performs-better.831997\/<\/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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0707-e1507175548416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0709-e1507175578891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0709-e1507175578891.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"181\" \/><\/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%20IronSmith%2040A%202050mAh%2018650...hugely%20overrated%2C%20VTC4%20performs%20better%20%2B%20hits%20harder\";<\/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>This \u201c40A\u201d cell is overrated by a LOT. IronSmith\u2019s rating is even useless as a \u201cpulse\u201d rating. The first pulse at 40A on a fully&#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-16203","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\/16203","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=16203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16542,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203\/revisions\/16542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}