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Dead 26650 battery from R-LSALES on ebay
Please forgive the double post (the following day), but as an update, I received the two batteries from R-LSales on ebay last night at work, unable to get to them until this morning to see if they are any good. This time, one of two is completely drained, zero volts, the other battery was at 3.79 volts. A note inside the package says "Must charge before use" - true, if the battery is good, but a zero volt Li-ion will not charge, I tried it before and it wouldn't do so and will try again, but I doubt this will come back, nor should it.
Batteries look in great shape though, even if one is a dud.
Here's an article regarding dead Li-ion batteries, it appears there might be a charger out there which can turn them back on, under certain circumstances if they have not discharged too far, but I believe these are too far gone. I'm certainly not going to buy a special charger to make up for this seller sending duds!
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/low_voltage_cut_off
Please forgive the double post (the following day), but as an update, I received the two batteries from R-LSales on ebay last night at work, unable to get to them until this morning to see if they are any good. This time, one of two is completely drained, zero volts, the other battery was at 3.79 volts. A note inside the package says "Must charge before use" - true, if the battery is good, but a zero volt Li-ion will not charge, I tried it before and it wouldn't do so and will try again, but I doubt this will come back, nor should it.
Batteries look in great shape though, even if one is a dud.
Here's an article regarding dead Li-ion batteries, it appears there might be a charger out there which can turn them back on, under certain circumstances if they have not discharged too far, but I believe these are too far gone. I'm certainly not going to buy a special charger to make up for this seller sending duds!
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/low_voltage_cut_off
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