Storacell PowerPax Battery Caddy

StoraCell makes the PowerPax battery caddy, which is great for the transport and storage of 18650 cells. This one glows in the dark, too!

Official Specs

Here’s the whole category of 18650 Battery Caddies.

Price

The GITD version (which I fully recommend) is $9.95 at Illumn.com.

The Purple version and the clear version are $3.95 at Illumn.com.

Short Review

These are great secure cell holders, and fit all sizes of 18650 cell that I have just perfectly. Cells with stickers should be inserted carefully to avoid scrunching the sticker, but otherwise, the wrappers are maintained.

Long Review

Package

A clear plastic bag containing a Storacell Battery Management 18650 4-pack, designed to organize and store batteries. The packaging displays the product information and an American flag symbol. The bag is on a wooden surface.

A translucent plastic battery holder is placed inside a clear resealable plastic bag, resting on a weathered wooden surface. The holder has four slots for cylindrical batteries.

These holders ship in a plastic zip-top baggie.

A clear plastic bag labeled Storacell 18650 4-Pack sits on a wooden surface next to a purple battery holder designed to organize and store four 18650 batteries.

A clear plastic package labeled “Storacell 18650 4-Pack” sits on a wooden surface next to four transparent plastic battery holders designed to fit 18650 batteries.

Build Quality

The PowerPax 18650 storage units are 4x cell holders. They’re quite thick and not a brittle type of plastic. It’s good plastic for this application.

There’s a good bit of headroom for any length cell; that’s just the nature of the way these cells are being held in place.

Also note that these holders leave the terminals available – if you wanted to build these into a system of some sort, the terminals are available to you. That’s not to say they’re dangerously exposed – the plastic is approximately 2mm thick, so a short in these would be…. unlikely.

Four cylindrical batteries in white plastic holders are arranged in a row on a wooden surface. The batteries have visible colored rings—black, pink, blue, and purple—near the terminals.

Four AA batteries with colored labels are arranged side by side in a white plastic holder, placed on a wooden surface. The photo is taken at close range, focusing on the battery terminals.

The plastic is embossed with a Storacell logo.

Purple and clear are quite nice too. Much less expensive, so that’s great. On the other hand, GITD can be had for just over 2x the price of these others, so it’s the obvious choice. 😀

Four purple inhalers are lined up side by side on a wooden surface, viewed from the side with their mouthpieces facing forward. The background is softly blurred.

Four AA batteries with purple plastic battery holders are placed side by side on a wooden surface, photographed close up with a shallow depth of field.

Four purple cylindrical batteries are placed horizontally side by side on a weathered wooden surface. The sides show branding and markings, including D.M. PATENTED and MADE IN USA. Background is blurred.

GITD

Well, they’re GITD. Just how GITD are they?

Regardless of what the camera settings are for these, just know that properly charged (this was a real sun charge), these things really glow!

Size

Officially
Weight: 1.2 oz.
Size: 3 1/2 x 1 x 3 1/4 in

A white plastic object with several rectangular slots is placed on top of a US two-dollar bill, both resting on weathered wooden boards.

Pretty reasonable size for a 4x 18650 holder.

A brown flashlight, a white battery holder containing four cylindrical batteries of various colors, and a silver, ornately designed flashlight are arranged side by side on a wood surface.

Three cylindrical objects stand upright on a wooden surface: a brown textured flashlight, a white translucent battery case with a visible battery inside, and a small engraved silver flashlight. The background is blurred.

Use

Cells just slip in and slip out with the proper effort. There’s a little tab on the top end which keeps the cells in – they will not fall out by any means.

One thing important for me is stacking these things – I’d really love for them to stack a bit better. They do stack properly, but to stack securely they need to be offset as seen below. That’s no issue, but be aware that’s how they stack.

Conclusion

What I Like

Secure holding of cells
Terminals are available for projects (or just testing voltage)
GITD is great

What I Don’t Like

GITD option is $10.
Stickers can be damaged if cells are not properly inserted

Notes

These cell carriers were provided by Illumn.com. I was not paid to write this article.
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