"Sky Ray 9xT6" issue from CNQG

No his wiring is right, if I remember correctly there are 3groups of 3 parallel.
And this is what I can see.
This would also make clear why just the 3 in the middle worked.

What is status quo? Does it light up?

The wiring is in the same configuration that I received it in. This is a very crappy picture of the basic wiring:

Haha, I think my pic might be worse than yours now scaru… although yours does have elliptical LED’s…

Ok, if it is supposed to be 3S3P does your circuit diagram follow this? (Your drawing confuses me :P )

What is the actual problem? Which LEDs light up and which not?

The wiring seems visually correct for me.

Haha… yeah my diagram confuses me too even. But yes, it appears that it follows your wiring configuration scaru.

The problem is that currently only the central 3 LED’s are lighting up now. But prior to that, 7 of them were lighting up.

I think scaru is correct

the led that is furthest to the right has a wire coming off positive and going to a positive

even if they’re supposed to be 3s3p, they wiring is incorrect

instead of drawing on the picture, I suggest recreating the way it is wired in a diagram that is easier to read (like scaru’s)

Wiring is right! I see 3s3pi have marked groups with colors

The furthes right goes direct to driver just with a short visit at the other led

bingo.

Yeah, the wiring is screwed up. Truthfully I am having a hard time figuring out what you did but it isn't right. :P I'm gonna try drawing up how it should be wired on one of your pictures for ya.

Ok, first of all here the correct wiring is. Each color is a 3S group.

And here the fix is to make it correct.

Now I am confused isn’t this the same way like it is?

Thank you for the replies…
aoyue, it actually wraps around (orange line)… see diagram below for what I mean.

Scaru, it is actually wired like that right now. It just doesn’t seem that way in that particular pic, but the one I posted with the orange dot should.

Edit: Yes Werner, I believe so.

I made a sloppy diagram on sketchbook, but I tried to maintain the relative orientation of the individual LED’s:


This should more or less be similarily oriented:

That’s the best picture so far.
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And I was right.

But why worked it for a moment and then just the 3 LEDs light up?
I can’t figure out what is wrong. But it can’t be just the driver, if current flows through the inner 3 than there has to be current through the other 6 too…

Now that I’m actually looking at it simplified… I’m more convinced it’s a driver issue. Unless it is shorting a circuit/s somehow?

Oohhhhh, pretty colours… :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah, I think it must be a driver issue. You could just make it direct drive off 3 IMR cells for an extremely bright light.

What driver issue should it be?
If theses groups are parallel why is there just flowing current through one group?
You should cut the middle group and try if another group lights up.

What. No more pretty colours? That's it? scaru, I think Virginia is about ten minutes by push bike to California. How about going around there and fix it. All the drawings looked like spaghetti to me. Nice problem solving guys.

Does direct drive mean no driver? As in directly driven from the IMR batteries? Anything above stock and those wires will instantly melt the plastic, fuse together, and then probably end badly somehow…

Yeah direct drive means no driver. I would recommend taking your DMM and using the continuity test function to make sure all the connections are good.