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.
My newly arrived Nano from Banggood also has a copper board. I haven’t tested to see if it has a DTP design. Maybe I’m wrong but I’m not sure it’s that important given the nature of the light.
I’ve asked Lumintop about the change, and also 10440 battery tubes, no reply yet but knowing what I do about Chinese manufacturing, personally I would be confident of getting a copper board as apparently the change was months ago, the sellers I know of sold out and were recently restocked, and the Chinese have a horror of sitting on unsold inventory. Notice I said personally. For example; I canceled my Lumintop order yesterday and got a query from them about the cancelation. The site says there are around 35 copper nanos in stock but turns out you are actually preordering and he lights will be in stock around March 10th.
BTW I found the Lumintop site difficult to use, but not as bad as Aliexpress. Also if searching for Lumintop, clicking on the Lumintoponline instead of lumintoplighting site got me to a official looking site that wasn’t current and wouldn’t allow me to log in without reregistering. Strange.
I’m curious why a aluminum board would apparently cause the led to be overdriven. The difference in conductivity?
It might be the other way around. I used lumintoplighting@foxmail.com and got a reply about my order, lumintoponline might be bogus, I didn’t try that email as the site didn’t work for me and also doesn’t show the Nano copper.
I guess so!
Example: I have a Tool AA, in which I was using a Samsung LH351D Led, on the stock aluminium board + FET Driver + Vapcell H10.
When I first lighted it with the H10 inside, within seconds it turned blue.
I ordered a thicker copper DTP MCPCB from Kaidomain store at AliExpress and used a new led (the other was damaged), same driver and cell. Guess what, it didn’t turn blue anymore.
Knowing that the Osram leds are even more sensitive to heat and current, if not put in an adequate PCB, they will blue in harder conditions, specially with FET drivers or high drain cells.
