I’m not sure what battery tube it comes with. Banggood says the 18650 tube is optional which seems odd.
The S43S comes with an 18350 only. Their history with their prior Special editions is to offer the 18650 tube separately. I had to buy all my 18650 S41S tubes separately. That’s fine but the S43 tube isn’t listed to be sold separately. It’s listed as “coming soon”, plus you’d have to pay shipping. So this time they really should have included an 18650 tube.
That being said, I jumped on the preorder, it’s a great discount. And 15Amp holy crap I can’t wait to see that.
i try to convince them to make a 18650 tube pack
@TA
Kudos! i really like the UI :beer:
That would be great. Can you do anything to get it added into the preorders we’ve already placed?
i doubt that
Does anybody know if there are any reviews of the regular S43 available anywhere yet? Cheers.
Yes, here:
EDIT: and here, by our friend M4D M4X 
Thank you. Not sure how I’ve managed to miss it.
I’ve seen the video. It is for the S version though.
Regular S43 comes with button contact in head and dual spring tailcap
Great! They were not real clear on if it would make it into the final design.
They said something like “It is really late for such a change and I think drivers are done already but I will try”
Looking at that picture, it looks like the spring was removed and the button added after the driver was complete. Shows they went the extra step to get that change made. Glad to see that.
The final form of the production light is often a mystery to me as well as ya’ll lol.
That’s awesome.! Great work it’s really bright with the Nichia, at least for the five minutes I got to hold mine until my wife “secured” it for herself. Ah well waiting for the copper version for me 
I think I saw someone said the S43 works with the prior S41/S42 18650 tubes. Those have knurling but are a good bit shorter I believe, I need to measure. Maybe it’s the button which makes the tube seem longer. I have an extra old one I’ll have to try it. Now how to get it back from her for a few minutes …hmm
Can someone try that if the light is locked and hit the tailcap upwards with hand (Of course the spike removed 
) ? And The question is if it jumps out of lock because the little battery disconnecting or not?
Cool, I was thinking about getting the aluminum version since I’m sure the copper one will be really heavy.
Yes it does
That is not very good. You need to lock with tailcap in a bag because if you drop down your bag harder it can unlock itself. Maybe I will put in some spring in mine when it arrives with wire bypass to not make output worse.
Also, can it be locked out manually?
Yes, that’s the way I carry it
Mad Max video of S43S does not have crenulated bezel. But Banggood listing does.
Which is correct?
I already wrote them to make sure.
I had ordered a pair of the S43s from Banggood.com and they just arrived today. I’m planning on giving one as a gift. You are right nokoff, the interface is awesome. That is my thought any time that I get a flashlight with NarsilM as the UI. The light out of these is quite nice and bright. It does seem to get hot pretty quickly when the light is set on high or turbo; it is a small head with 4 LEDs, so that is to be expected.
With the pictures in the forum and seeing how much better the prototype looked than the Astrolux production version, I was pleasantly surprised that it is a decent looking like in person. It does seem kind of naked without any knurling on the body, but the little bit of knurling on the end cap helps it a bit. But overall I don’t think that the pictures do it justice. That being said, I did contact Neal, following the link for the Mateminco S03 over at M4DM4X.com at the end of last week and asked about ordering a couple of the long tube bodies for the S03. He said that he just hadn’t gotten around to posting them on his page yet, but that they were $2/ea. + shipping. I went ahead and ordered two of those for a total of $9. I’m anxious for those to get here and see which I like better. So if you do order the Astrolux S43 and don’t like the body, you can change it out if you are going to use at 18650 battery. I’ll let you know what I think when they get here.