[sold out] SKY RAY 6 x Cree XM-L2 T6 3-Mode Cool White Light Flashlight - Black (4 x 18650) US$ 25,76 free shipping @ DX

Just wondering if we should make a new thread for modding this specific SRK?

Zero. They are not laptop cells, high drain cells are used in other applications such as power tool battery packs.

Good idea! I ordered a Mosfet and low resistance silicone wires from Mtnelectronics.com to boost this new friend! :slight_smile:

I don’t know if there is a better thread for this but I just wanted to let you know that DX finally shipped my order of three pairs of protected Sanyos (sku 121447) they had on sale at the same time as the Skyray of the OP.

They are back on sale but now at $11.99. They exchanged the pictures, too.

I just finished the mod of dchomak with the low resistant wires & mosfet I got from RMM (thanks guys!). Also did a tail spring mod with soldering lytze and put more thermal compound between star & pill.

As dchomak already mentioned, the driver is glued in the head and I also had to pound on the driver from the other side to disassemble. When desoldering the wires, I notice the red wire was connected to the L- on the driver. I didn’t remember whether it was connected to the + or - pole of the LED star, so I soldered the new wires + to + (red) and - to - (minus). The flashlight didn’t give a kick so I crossed the wires.

I tried to screw back the battery compartment and the SRK gave an intense bright hot flash so I thought I blew the LEDs to heaven J). In a startle response the batteries flew around the room :~ Didn’t smell bad though, so I picked up the batteries and screwed it on again.

The light started shining, so apparently it was default on. Well, in fact it was SHINING!! My goodness, this is a performance boost, I really felt a powerful hot beam shining on my hands. The body got also quite hot quickly so there must be a lot more Amps pumping around.

In my opinion, this DX SRK is a real BLF champion. Cheap, quite easy to mod, good quality and a powerful lumen king. Highly recommended!

i ripped one of the traces trying to replace the mosfet. Anyone know of a replacement driver ?

Still haven't received mine yet.

I had ordered 2, 1 each from DX and DX-US.

DX-US shipped on 4/1 and I received it 4/12
DX shipped on 4/2 and I have not yet received it as of 4/26.

I am looking forward to it so I can measure the “before” performance.

DX is now asking $36.65 for this light, what a nice deal we got.

I was reading about warrior: The King is dead? Long live the Warrior!! and I really liked some features like ramping brightnes and lock out. My SRK 6x xml2 has very high “low” around 40-50% of max current (a real low of around 20% would be more usefull for me at least). When I was trying lock out feature on SRK (btw it does work with just a small twist) I found out if I set it to low and twist it just before it looses contact, I am able to get very low brightnes (much below 100 lumen).

i think you just creating high resistance in the threads - maybe it warms up and sizzles there…

If you can replace the FET I’m fairly confident that you can repair the trace. A jumper wire will be lower resistance than the trace is anyway.

got mine today...

Compared to my Supfire M6 (300 lux ceiling bounce, versus 220 of this Skyray King), I want to get this thing apart.

How can you get the reflector off, when the white led centering rings are still installed?

Well DX lied and is playing games again. This is twice I’ve ordered the SRK at a low price from DX and they then wait a while, then claim its out of stock, but have another light listed at a higher price that looks like the same thing. Of course the new listing requires more money before they ship. DX is a really crappy scammy site! Randomly some people actually get the light to increase interest, while others get the scam setup message for more money to ship out I guess.

Hate to say it guys, but they are messing with me as well. I ordered a lot of these (over $1,000 worth) in two separate orders on March 31st and April 1st from the US Direct site. About a week later they added tracking information, which now more than a month later is still invalid; that's six invalid numbers after 30+ days. I have tried contacting them multiple times with no response. I opened a PayPal dispute and waited about five days, no response. I escalated to a claim more than a week ago, no response.

They have been holding onto more than $1,000 for over 45 days and won't answer an e-mail, message, or a claim. What's worse is that they added tracking information when it's obvious they never shipped anything. This tells me that they know they screwed up on the pricing but didn't want to admit to it, so they faked it to buy some more time. I don't know about you, but I don't like giving businesses $1,000+ 45 day interest free loans (when it wasn't part of the initial bargain,) especially when they act like this. I am convinced that if I didn't file a PayPal dispute they would keep the money and never say a word.

I don't think that everyone will have this sort of problem dealing with these guys, but I've given them a few weeks to make things right and they haven't said a word to me so far throughout all of this. I've ordered from them before without any issues, starting about a year ago, but this is beyond the pale.

That’s really bad! They don’t use email anyways but I take it with message you mean a DX ticket?

i had also some troubles with my last order…

fortunately a lot less money :wink:

Did you call Paypal? I called and Paypal forced a refund in less than a day.

Refund isn’t the main point now, it’s the way DX is behaving and stalling by saying it was shipped when it is not. The shipment is US to US, it should not still be invisible after 30 days. No idea what happens after the 45 days PP protection window.

I don’t know about you guys, but what’s happening to RMM is pretty close to an actual scam IMO.

DX doesn’t ship anything US to US.

Really? Then what do they mean by their US Direct site?

If they call it US direct but meant slow boat from China anway, that is simply more paisley from them. :slight_smile: