Generic
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While going through some of my generic packs, I found one that stood out. The cover looked like any other:
Upon opening up the pack, besides the usual kapton tape,aluminum wire, and small Chinese BMS, the cells were different than what I was used to finding:
Here's a closeup of the cells. The numbers are not capacity, but rather my serial numbers. Cell 1238 came from a genuine Dell laptop battery. Cell 1239 came from the generic pack posted above.
On the Opus, they tested less than their original capacity, but higher than I expected. Left Opus is testsabout 20% above actual, the right Opus testsabout 10% above actual. So they were about 2300-2350?
What do you think? Are these fake Samsungs? I've seen better generics (Rayovac, AtBatt, etc.) using BAK cells, but it was a bit of a surprise to find Samsungs on a no-name pack.
P.S.I don't know why, but the uploader is automatically rotating allmy pictures the wrong way.
Upon opening up the pack, besides the usual kapton tape,aluminum wire, and small Chinese BMS, the cells were different than what I was used to finding:
Here's a closeup of the cells. The numbers are not capacity, but rather my serial numbers. Cell 1238 came from a genuine Dell laptop battery. Cell 1239 came from the generic pack posted above.
On the Opus, they tested less than their original capacity, but higher than I expected. Left Opus is testsabout 20% above actual, the right Opus testsabout 10% above actual. So they were about 2300-2350?
What do you think? Are these fake Samsungs? I've seen better generics (Rayovac, AtBatt, etc.) using BAK cells, but it was a bit of a surprise to find Samsungs on a no-name pack.
P.S.I don't know why, but the uploader is automatically rotating allmy pictures the wrong way.
