"Sky Ray 9xT6" issue from CNQG

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.

That’s not a bad idea… it’s just such a pain in the butt to solder these tiny damn things. My solder tip isn’t the best for that. It’s a super cheap one.

Haha… my noobish ways are legit.

Googling continuity test function for my DMM… haha…

They are all complete circuits. I don’t know what the hell I was reading, but it was giving me the same reading for all of the connections… here is a pic:

Edit: The DMM is some random one from Home Depot: Commercial Electric Digital Multimeter model #: MAS830B

I have the same exact Ultrafire 9xT6 from CNQG. Would it help if I took a picture of mine?

I don’t think it’s necessary, but it might be nice to see for further confirmation of standard wiring. I already e-mailed CNQG to ask for the replacement driver Ric offered. I think it should be OK once I replace it.

Cool well PM me if you need me to.

What a mess! And here I was thinking of getting one if these until I read this review. I hope that the Trustfire AK 47 has a better review!