Die-cutting is significantly more efficient, and therefore less expensive. Laser cut nickel usually ends up being more than twice as expensive per-piece as die-cut.
They are not currently live, we are waiting on the last few items to come in so that we can start putting kits together. We will no longer be selling the KitPCB components individually, as that creates a huge stockkeeping headache.
@DuckBatterySystems if it’s worth anything as a vote for future manufacturing - I’m currently looking to buy a 21700 5p nickel strip and PCB.
Comprehensive PCB Battery Kits are finally live! These include nearly EVERYTHING needed to complete a powerful, robust, reliable 12s battery. We have included every single material that makes sense to add, so buying our kit takes all the guesswork out of battery building.
An updated build guide is coming soon, along with several other KitPCB layouts.
Yep, restocking soon.
We got an updated 4p shape (better fitment, slightly more cross-sectional area, longer slots for locating the positive terminal of your cells), a 6p shape, an 8p shape, and a 9p shape!
The 6p and 8p are designed to fit perfectly in all of our 21700 KitPCB’s, so you can seamlessly add more cells to the existing designs.
The 9p is designed to fit an upcoming 16s3p PCB 
To celebrate the arrival of this new nickel, our old nickel stock is on sale! We slashed our already low price for the 4p 18650 and 4p 21700, so we can move the stock and make room on the shelf for the new stuff.
The new shapes are all live (except the new 4p, which will take the place of the existing 4p when we sell out) at the links below:
Before anyone asks, yes these new shapes are pretty expensive. In case you didn’t hear, the global nickel market got hit by the now-universal COVID-related price hikes, and then inflation hasn’t helped. All that to say, raw nickel’s price shot through the roof, and all us battery builders are unfortunately feeling the effects. Our profit margins at DBS have NOT increased, because price gouging is super lame. And as always, if you are interested in purchasing any of our items in bulk, please reach out and we will be happy to discuss quantity discounts 
Thanks for reading!
-Benjamin
With the new nickel shapes that just arrived, its now easier than ever to make a high-capacity esk8 battery! When purchasing your battery kit, now you can just select the size of pack that you want to build, and we will include the necessary nickel shapes.
Hope this is helpful!
-Benjamin
P.S. @rafaelinmissouri just gonna tag you real quick since you asked about this.
The 12S4P I built with your PCB kit was by far my favorite battery building experience.
I hate builiding batteries and they freak me out and take me 50 hours…
but the PCB man… oh. that was so good.
Still going strong in my Khymera.
long shot here, but will u plan to do 18650 pgroup pcb? im interested in some
We have them!
We have 18650 CompactPCB and FlexPCB kits here:
And we have 18650 P-Group PCB’s here:
Thanks for your question Michael!
-Benjamin
sweet baby jesus, i love u. will make the order once i have the config plann out, u can send on ups?
Yep! You should be able to select whichever shipping option you want at checkout If there’s any issue, PM me and I’ll get it worked out for you.
will do!
Seeing this makes me want to keep building packs. Need some more esk8 friends! 
Whoa 
I might want to do my first pack…
Doesn’t Shopify just cover all of that in Shopify payments? The only thin I have noticeable huge increases on is shop pay installments.
Reliable, robust, crazy powerful! And we are selling them for an excellent price, if I do say so myself. Tell your friends 
-Benjamin
No way to expose the gap in the 12s6p so people can try to run wires down between it?
If the user wants to cut the heatshrink in that area to do that, that’s up to them. I think it’s better to just run the wires down either side of the pack though, there should be plenty of room since there’s gaps in the cell pattern there as well 
