Lumintop GT nano on the way

Thanks Muto.

The Vipon discount was enough of an enticement to order the GT Nano as a toy to play with NarsilM since I have never experienced that user interface and for showing to others while saying "it sure looked a lot bigger on the internet":

Nano is on flashdeal at bg now so none of the codes work :weary:

Thanks for that info goshdogit

I understand, but, I think you may have missed the point that the head of the Maratac will work on the Nano body tube. So you end up with two working lights.

imo Lumintop is not going to give us a free AAA tube. More likely, they will offer an AAA tube, with a Nano head on it, as a separate item.

why lumintop refuses 10440 tubes is beyond me…

I think you misunderstand, they never promised a free extra body.

I think they want to sell all the 10180 lights before they start producing 10440 lights.

I can see why you would wishfully think they would sell one head with two bodies, but I think what they mean is they will sell two different models, one w 10180 body, and another w 10440 body. Both with a Head on the body.

It makes no sense for a flashlight company to give away free body tubes, or to even make them without a head.

when I see this pic, I see two complete and separate flashlights:

the one on the left is not yet offered for sale. the one on the right you can buy today…

jon_slider, my friend, I hope you are well :wink:

I’ll have to disagree with you in some points here, as I guess in this case your assumptions are not completely corret.

Going through M4D M4X, aka Martin, posts on this thread, and others, you will see that the 10440 version was supposed to exist from the beginning!
You can see mortuus post #4 already talking about the 10440, so it was an initial option…

It would be to precocious to talk about a 10440 version if it wasn’t advertised 3 posts before on the OP.

Initially - if I am not mistaken - both “versions” were supposed to exist, and a similar picture to the one posted above was in OP, later retrieved due to the confusions, delays, postponings and reactions we had concerning the non-existence of the 10440 version, mostly due to that “bad decision”. I can’t remember if the photo was posted originally or later on, though.

Martin’s reports are here:

So, there was no plan to first sell 10180 and the 10440 versions. Those were supposed to be the same light!
Martin said what happened, so now we wait, or we improvise.

> you will see that the 10440 version was supposed to exist from the beginning!

thanks for added info

I agree the original plan was to offer a 10440 light.

but 10440 made the LED turn blue…
so lumintop stopped

people blamed the aluminium mcpcb

now we have reports that the lights people are receiving have copper boards…, and they are buying Nitefox hosts

So far nobody has reported their LED turned Blue.

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To anyone with a Nano and an AAA tube of whatever kind:

1. Does you light have a copper board?

2. Does your LED turn Blue, or Not, when you use 10440?

Where is the best place to buy this light? Which LED is best? OSRAM?

Looks like it's on sale at (American) Amazon right now:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/29803/3493

I can’t get the myvipon to work. Comes up regular price.

I get the point but I don’t particularly want one of those two lights. A 10440 tube was implied, promised, or hinted and I think most people assumed Lumintop would product it. Well because of technical problems it doesn’t look like it. I’m willing to pay $9 for the nitefox as I’d have to pay for the Lumintop tube although I have some doubts now about the 10440 battery in that light. The Maratac is fairly expensive and is hard for me to get here and isn’t the type of light that usually appeals to me. (although that can always change).

Still thinking about it but I’ll probably cancel the copper one I ordered from Lumintop. It hasn’t shipped yet, and I have some buyers remorse anyway.

jon_slider, I got a GT Mini with 2 tubes, 18350 and 18650. I believe I needed to pay extra for the tube but nowhere close to the price of another light. I love both variants…though I would probably buy neither if there was just a single tube.
So this is something that Lumintop has done in the past.

In some of the posts above there was a mention of someone who spotted a copper board in one of the newer versions of the Nano. But I have not seen it so I do not think it happened. Pics??

I found this in another platform, and I guess it is Victor from LT.
https://www.reddit.com/user/LMTVICTOR
Not sure if it was implemented already, though.

The picture was posted on reddit more then 3 months ago. Maybe someone knows if there are serial nrs. that correspond to the change to copper boards.

Can anyone confirm that they’re DTP copper MCPCB’s, and not just copper MCPCB’s?

I’m sure that you can have no idea if the Nano that you order now has that new copper board.

But for me that pic is helpful anyway, thanks. It shows the size of the board and how it fits in the head, nothing special there. It looks like I can swap in a copper board myself if the board is not copper. It convinces me to buy a Nano now :slight_smile:

thank you for educating me, I did not know that
glad you got two tubes for your Mini…

I hope you share your results, maybe you will receive a copper pcb in your light. Photos confirming the pcb is copper, would be good to see :slight_smile:

I hope the LED does not turn blue on a copper board.

(I will be suprised, and happy for you, if the only difference between an LED turning blue is from changing the pcb metal from aluminium to copper)

Mine has a copper board.. confirmed.. not sure if it's DTP though

added the picture to my review: https://1lumen.com/review/lumintop-gt-nano/