AMEN Brother!
Alaskans Question : What kind of power output are you seeing at 2.1 amps?
My answer : I believe Tater said he has been having trouble getting the driver to adjust to 2.0 amps, it jumps from 0.7 to 2.1 so he has only recently decided to go with 2.1
I strongly advise that Tater monitor that output current for deviations if it was set via the little pot on a popular bucking driver as I have noticed variations until several heating and cooling cycles have elapsed in one myself.
It's possible I did something to cause that, but it was not my drivers heat sink as it was stable as a rock for many cycles until I touched the pot. My heat sink never changed and I turned my output down.
It went from a stable 5.0 amps to a variation between 5.5 to 4.2-4.1 over the course of battery discharge from fully charged to a final under load voltage of 7.1 for 2 INR 18650's
I originally turned it down from 5.0 to 4.5 with power off, but the batteries I used to verify the initial 4.5 amp resetting were about half discharged.
Upon recharging and monitoring I discovered the new abnormality.
Maybe I was too rough with the sensitive pot, I did not think that I was but I could have been, it is a small part and I am a big idiot