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It'll work, but there are other, safer batteries that would work better. I'd personally recommend buy a couple of 25Rs if I had the sig.


Mistakes happen - it's definitely an ICR.


Can be blo**y frightening!! Happening less and less since the advent of the modern PSU (no voltage selector). I made a lot of money from peeps flicking the switch - 'My mate told me it would make it more powerful!!'

As for battery bro I have to laugh at myself sometimes. When I see a statement such as 'Prices Hidden- Please Create an account' I take it that's what they actually mean. Great to see a vendor having VTC5s on site, whilst pushing their own blog that declares all VTC5s are fake.

Tagging Vapor-Z.

One of our trusted vendors glen. You'll be sorted

Welcome aboard weemaggie

Some great recipes for you to try here.

As always, advice is free so ask away

The only place I've bought the chargers from is AJC Trading Q. Their website is nitecore.co.uk, so that's an obvious clue?

If you email Nitecore USA they'll return a list of 'authorised' sellers in the UK. These sellers would then tell you which web stores, or high street shops in your area they supply (admittedly not 100%, they're not infallible)

The thing is it's human nature to go for the better deal, which isn't always the best. Unfortnately this attitude just feeds the fakers.

I'm not going to crusade on this matter. The fact is it happens, it'll always happen, and we just have to let the dust settle and carry on.

Neither of us is giving bad advice, just two different views of the same problem - working towards the same goal.

I hope members reading this absorb much of what we're both saying and make a wise decision based on that info.

Of course they could just treat us as a couple of doddering old fools having a rant, reading back that is the way it's beginning to appear

Yet you could buy  a fake built from the right materials, with fake nitecore wrappers on the caps, and the correct spelling on the box. It could weigh the same, within 0.1 Gramme. It could have the correct lead, with the correct plug.

The point is - it's still a fake! Any non-magnetic metal would pass the magnet test for the slide and pos pin.

How do we KNOW a genuine? We can't. Only Nitecore can.

The only way to protect ourselves from fakes? Buy from an authorised dealer. Stop buying from FT or ebay.

I could be judgemental and say 'You get what you pay for!!' and leave everyone to it, but I'm not. I'm here, now, looking for a way for us all to be 100% safe.