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…
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.
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.
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
I saw the 10440 tube on Facebook or at Neals shop when I did the review. I just assumed (which I shouldn't have done) that the 10440 tube would be available soon after the review. It's 3 months later, and the tube is still not available.