I don’t really know the history of all of this save that mooch has tested many batteries. It’s just odd that a single anonymous person on the internet is the source for so many people buying one particular brand from a handful of vendors, you know?
Understandable, the brief history of Mooch, is from the early days of lithium battery ECig vape devices, often referred to as “mods”.
He began testing batteries as a hobby because of all the advertised over specification, dangerous and fakes on the market. He eventually made a web page supported by donations. Remember, nobody wanted to devote there free time to do time exhausting tests, buy EQ, then the batteries. We all know companies and corporations can’t be trusted on honest, real world product specifications, so there was a huge void in lack of battery knowledge.
As far as TRUSTING, well since this stuff is mostly science, it’s too easy to have your published results questioned.
For example, with the minimal equipment I own, I can test capacity, ohm resistance, very close to his oscilloscope readings. However, he often runs multiple tests on multiple batteries, and runs some longer tests. But basically I can see if his results are accurate.
The only battery parameter that I can’t test, and is probably the most important for safety and battery life and performance, is the HIGH AMP DRAW HEAT TESTING. The advertised AMP number hopefully printed on batteries or at least in the companies specifications sheet, is the LIMIT defined at a certain high temperature in the testing specs. To test the temperature at a high amperage load requires additional equipment, that if accurate, is not cheap. Mooch has always leaned toward being conservative in his AMP results, then the company specs, in regards to the temperature he records when testing at hi loads. So sometimes, lower, but safer recommendations of what the actual AMP limit a battery truly is. I’ll leave it up to him for those specs, but I trust him, he even answers emails.
