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Good to know. Thanks for the info!
https://www.18650batterystore.com is a great source for good, fresh batteries. https://www.imrbatteries.com is another great source. You can trust them. Depending on your light, you may not be able to run protected batteries, and you may not need them. Protection means there is a little circuit board on one end of the battery that will turn the battery off under certain conditions. Once you know whether you need protected or not, you then check what the max current draw is on your light and match your battery to that. Some batteries can produce extremely high current draw. These are great if you need them, but the generally will drain faster and often have less total capacity.
So, what light do you have?
I have a Nite Core LR50 lantern.
A lite with USB recharging capabilities.
For that light any button top, protected 18650 will work. I'd say nice for car camping. Not a light I would carry in the back country.
A Zebralight will have 6x the brightness on one 18650 and 1/4 the weight. It will run 15 days on low instead of 4. And the batteries will cost $5 instead of $17. But for car camping that is a nice compact lantern.
Is agree on the weight. It’s an impulse buy that I’m starting To regret. My intention was to have a dual purpose charger for my phone/gps for spike camps.