I always discourage people from shorting resistors. When I say resistor mod, I mean changing resistor values or stacking resistors, not shorting resistors. I understand that other people may have a different perspective and that that’s confusing. Shorting sense resistors on either buck or boost setups normally fries stuff. Only certain specific drivers have extra limits which prevent that.
The sense resistor(s) is under the toroid. I see one right next to the 1165c silkscreen. You’ll definitely need to pull the toroid order to do the mod. Pulling the toroid shouldn’t take you more time than shorting resistors would have? In order to work on the driver more efficiently I’d recommend removing the toroid, attaching LED+ to one leg of the toroid, and attaching the other leg using a short wire of appropriate thickness to BAT+ (or wherever it was connected to start with). This will let you do work without moving the toroid on and off of the driver.
There are other things under the toroid we want to see as well