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CALB 200Ah so called "Brand new Grade-A"

Watchout

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All who have purchased these so called BRAND NEW GRADE-A 200Ah cells should report their P-codes here.

You find them both on selfadhesive paperstickers and by using a QR-code reader app to read the QR-codes on top of the cells.

You may find another paper sticker partly covering it, but it can easily and carefully be pealed off and placed next to the QR-code.

We need to find out the magnitude of this fraud.

It will be very interesting to see how often they don't match.

Looking forward to seeing them here
 

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The brand new grade A CALB SE200 200ah battery cell is not available
 
I bought 16. Only have the p-codes for some:
P6715116110122
P6715124110215
P6715116110178
P6715125111154
P6715123110214
P6715123110200
P6715123110386

Is there anyway to translate these into manufacture date?
 
Hi', well alone from the numbers you have shown here, I can see they are quite old actually.
The newer cells (Still not new at all) have production codes of P8xx.....

If you look at some of my other threads here you can learn much more about these fraudulent offerings.

Anyway CALB stopped production of these cells almost 3 years ago now.

There should be another number on the cells also, which contains ddmmyy as part of the number, but some of the sellers of these used cells also exchange this label with a false one, indicating they are much newer.

The cells normally have a little QR code on top, seller will most likely claim, that they are not readable, which is also false. When using a decent QR code program on your smartphone, you can easily read those and they should match the P codes you have presented here.

Regards and Watch Out
 
@Watchout I purchased 16 of these cells from PWOD on AliExpress late last year before becoming aware of this debacle. Fortunately, I was able to lodge a dispute with AliExpress on the last date open to me and this is still ongoing, with me providing new video evidence of charge/discharge cycles every couple of days. AliExpress proposed refund figure ramping up each time, so hopefully a positive outcome in due course.

Can you tell me how you learnt of CALB discontinuing production of these cells? Google is not helping me find much on it, and would be good to have a source for that as the seller is continually claiming throughout the dispute process that the cells are new and unused (bwahahahahahahahahaha).

For reference, 5 of the cells I received were particularly poor quality (one of them didn't reach 120Ah), while the remaining 11 ran between about 145 and 160Ah. All cells I received appear to have the same P-code on the side - P9221301162062. They all have different short serial numbers of some kind beside the QR code on top. The worst 5 cells had a different range of codes to the others, these in the form 133-xxx. The others were in the format 47-xx-x.

UPDATE: Grabbed a QR Scanner app and pulled the individual P-codes now. Bet you can't guess which 5 were the worst ones! ???

P6314473111285
P6314473111582
P6314474111190
P6314470110925
P6314466111656
P7215395111086
P7215396110346
P7215396111810
P7215403110868
P7215412110492
P7215413111077
P7215414110424
P7215414110456
P7215416112154
P7215421110638
P7215426110743
 
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The CALB SE series cells were discontinued more than 5 years ago. I have an email from CALB USA stating this in writing. There have been tons of warnings on here about not buying LFP cells off Aliexpress but it seems everyday someone new gets screwed… I know for a fact the SE 400Ah cells were discontinued back in 2013 as that is what we had been buying directly from CALB USA.. tomorrow I will try and find that email and do a screen shot.
 
The CALB SE series cells were discontinued more than 5 years ago. I have an email from CALB USA stating this in writing. There have been tons of warnings on here about not buying LFP cells off Aliexpress but it seems everyday someone new gets screwed… I know for a fact the SE 400Ah cells were discontinued back in 2013 as that is what we had been buying directly from CALB USA.. tomorrow I will try and find that email and do a screen shot.
Brilliant - that would be much appreciated! I will continue to spread the word.
 
@Sabre36 just checking on the off chance you located that email? Am in closing stages of dispute on AliExpress and would be handy to drop that one in as additional evidence. Thanks!
 
@Sabre36 just checking on the off chance you located that email? Am in closing stages of dispute on AliExpress and would be handy to drop that one in as additional evidence. Thanks!
Sorry just saw this now...
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Sorry just saw this now...
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Thank you! Interestingly, I was referred to the CALB USA site in another thread and so sent a request to them for assistance. It was Keegan that replied to me also, but he only said 'at least 2 years ago'. He seems a little confused. ?
 
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