Review: Sky Ray 9xT6 - The King of HOT Rods?

Since this light is so easy to mod, I’m looking into upgrading the driver to the KD 9 LED Series Circuit Board. I have an email into them to see if they can reprogram it as a 5-mode rather than the 3-mode (no blinkies of course.) I’m getting 4amps on HIGH mode as is, but I don’t really know how much more the KD driver will put out, but I’ll give it a try and let everyone know.

I saw that too. The only problem I see with that is that it lowers current as you approach 60C. Stock that only takes 10 mins to get there. I can’t imagine at the power that thing puts out… you can probably only run it for like 45 seconds!

Let me know though. I’m interested!

Let the light run on high for a few mins. It unscrews real easy then. I did it with my hands. There’s only a small amount of thermal paste holding the parts together. Just watch when you are unscrewing that the reflector does not move. You may accidentally break the leads.

I know this is a 7x T6, but has 4, 26650s, looks kind of like a Updated Tr 3T6.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Trustfire-8000Lm-7x-CREE-XM-L-T6-LED-Flashlight-Torch-4x-26650-50W-Lamp-Charger-/200828180182?pt=US_Flashlights&hash=item2ec24ad6d6

So does anyone own one of these?

I know some have it on this forum. Best to check out the thread we have for it. I’m sure it’ll answer any questions you may have about it.

I didn’t bother removing the bezel on mine, but I did remove the collar holding down the driver before unscrewing the head. I figured there wouldn’t be any chance of twisting up the wires to the driver with it hanging out of the head. Hard to believe all this current is going through those two little wires.

Tried just before I posted to unscrew it, cold or hot no difference used a towel also. perhaps I have screwed it too fast in when I screwed the other parts together…
I don’t want to change the driver either, until we can get some mini nuclear reactors for powering it….

Edit tried again with some work gloves with latex on them, very easy too unscrew now. Mine has a big drop of the thermal grease on the inside. LOL

Wondering why there is void room next to the FET…
Data sheet from Fet http://vfiles.cizgi.com.tr/tagem/dms_dosya/1800/p0903bdg.pdf

Cables are 26awg orawg28 can’t read it good, to thin in every case…

Mini nuclear reactor you say?

http://kaidomain.com/product/details.S020165

nice pics of the innards

is the surface that the emitters sit on an integral part of the head? Almost looks like it isn’t…and it is a plate that they fujik’d into the head?

No its one solid piece. Its all anodized and everything.

I’m new to all this and have no knowledge of modding…Sorry.

Would this allow the light to be brighter by regulating the flow of electricity more efficiently?

I doubt that driver is more efficient (but it could be) - the big difference is it draws more power (if batteries are capable) and delivers more power to the leds.

I recently purchased one of these from RIC (still in route), and every time I get one of these multi-LED lights that use 26650 cells, the cell stack is either too tall (all protected cells)or too short (unprotected cells) for the body. My question to the battery guru’s on the site, do all the cells need to be protected? Logic tells me, as long as one is protected, the others don’t need to be. As long as the base cell is the same for all three, the one protected cell effectively protects all the cells and flashlight internals from damage due under voltage, over current, etc. Once the protected cell trips, the whole assembly will shut down regardless. Is this true?

Not true, because cells are always different.
If you have 3 cells one could have less capacity or less charged so this cell will get over discharged when it is not protected.

Only thing one protected could do is to prevent from shorting the circuit.

hence i feel safer using it in 18650 format , has anyone on here ever had one that blew up in their hands ? :stuck_out_tongue:

yeah a 9x or 12x led in skyray king type setup would be nice but mayb too hot or chunky to hold with 4x 26650. i feel the sky ray king is already perfect fit for me unless you are 2 meters tall with massive hands i dont think u want to hold anything bigger then skyray king. :slight_smile:

I can’t believe I placed an order for this driver. I must be nuts to want to do this to an already super bright flood monster that took out my Trustfire TR-J12 in a beam comparision.

I did ask if this 9X driver can be reprogrammed for better modes like some of their others, 100–75–50–30–10%, but I was told this particular driver can’t be and must remain as a 3-mode, but luckily no flashy modes. They are going to upgrade the driver at some point to the modes I listed and with no blinkies of course. I wasn’t given a time table for when that’ll happen.

Take pictures of how you mod it and let us know how hot it gets!

…Because i want to do the same mod!

Will do with before and after beam shots too.

My light comes in tomorrow. Please let us know how that works out for you. I am definitely interested in doing that mod.

Christmas special on wallbuys 9xt6 for 50$