Improving Solarstorm battery performance tip…

Had my Solarstorm since February and lately the performance has started getting a bit short, even a 30 minute ride saw the battery go to 1 bar by the end on a low setting.
I was about to order a new one but thought I’d try something different and just gave the plug on the light a little squeeze with a pair of pliers..
Lo and behold the light duration went up to a couple of hours. Obviously the connector is getting dirty. No contact cleaner to hand so I think I’ll just order some new decent connectors.
It may be worth a try if your battery performance has dropped.

I just ordered a solarstorm battery box and 4 panasonic batteries, job done!

Can anyone advise the best place to get one at the moment? I am fed up with swapping lights and want to get another.

http://www.kaidomain.com/product/details.S023038

Is about the cheapest at the mo, should arrive early January

Sam from puresystems has them in the uk at the moment

My pure systems one arrived very quickly. Spot on.

Does anyone have a link for the puresystems site?

Also, potentially daft question… Do you charge the cells in the box with a charger? Or individually using a battery charger?

Cheers

Just email Sam at puresystems he is very quick to reply

Puresystems@yahoo.co.uk

He sells a charger for a tenner to charge the cells separately.

http://www.kaidomain.com/product/details.S023038

Is about the cheapest at the mo, should arrive early January

They have new stock, mine took a week.

The new one has a usb cable that allows you to charge directly from PC/Laptop etc, it also has a charge indicator, not sure if the old had one?

Yes I got mine from sam at PS too, I also got the 4 battey charger, wich apparently looks after the batteries better and I safer, though I expect an exploding cell in the case would not be too bad.

Same as this http://r.ebay.com/TPGw8M

Any experience of what the 18650 cells from Kaidomain are like – & which ones did you go for?

I ordered the ncr18650 protected from banggood
They are made by Panasonic
Kaidomain sell them
http://www.kaidomain.com/product/Details.S022292