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At a 25A draw that Molicel cell will sag a lot, maybe down to 2.25V or less if not fully charged. It's ok for making a nickle chrome wire glow red hot in a vape gadget, but it can't hold up like that for very long maintaining a high current load.
The longer battery may have twice the capacity ( mAh ) but half the idle voltage of 2 half length cells in series and boosting will demand twice the current plus what it takes to overcome the additional battery voltage sag under a high drain load. You're almost always going to get more run time from 2 half length cells in series bucking than 1 full length cell boosting and often when boosting to 4+ amps your wire dia. and switch contact resistance can become an issue from what I have seen. Actually I get twice the run time with 3 cells in series than 2 cells in series just driving a nubm44 @ 4.5A, remember we recharge when the li cells get down to 3.5V without any load, but I have discharged them down to 2.75V unloaded, however that's fully discharged.
The longer battery may have twice the capacity ( mAh ) but half the idle voltage of 2 half length cells in series and boosting will demand twice the current plus what it takes to overcome the additional battery voltage sag under a high drain load. You're almost always going to get more run time from 2 half length cells in series bucking than 1 full length cell boosting and often when boosting to 4+ amps your wire dia. and switch contact resistance can become an issue from what I have seen. Actually I get twice the run time with 3 cells in series than 2 cells in series just driving a nubm44 @ 4.5A, remember we recharge when the li cells get down to 3.5V without any load, but I have discharged them down to 2.75V unloaded, however that's fully discharged.