Ha ha Daniel yes my foot is ok and I’m out enjoying mine 
but haven’t had a real chance to stretch its legs (sorry for the pun coz I’ve been working over the weekend. Take care of that foot buddy. Maybe you can use the torch as its big enough to use as a walking stick.
OK I FRIED/Melted together the driver wires!!! LOL
And yes it gets hot.
I ran this light for approx 3 minutes on high and the light went out.
If you use your light on high for more than a couple minutes you may fry your driver wires in the lights “head” area. I took mine apart and put in high temp wires of a larger gauge. There is one problem after soldering in such a tight area after reinstall of the reflector. You must cover your soldering + and - connections or they WILL short on the aluminum reflector. Fortunatly I found this out before frying the driver/end cap switch.
Oh yes, I forgot to add you need to cover the soldered areas with some shrink tubing (insulation product) cut and placed over connections to protect them from grounding out on the reflector.
This was a fun project not wanting to do late last night!!! Least I know how to tear one of these down now. And it was sooo late I did not take pictures. But for those who really need help just pm me I will tear it down again and take some pictures.
BTW I took temp. test for this short duration test (3 min) and was at 124 degrees fahrenheit.
What was weird is during disassembly/reassembly I was testing light modes and “low” setting was producing an oscillation effect on a ziploc plastic bag near the emmiters splash.
Daniel, do you have a digital volt/amp meter? Where you able to get a tail cap reading yet?
As for the wires melting, do you think somehow they shorted against one another inside the head at an uninsulated point or was it from just to much current going through them. It doesn’t sound like this 12X T6 is being under-driven to me.
Yes they melted together. Excessive current was the culprit. Diameter/gauge was the issue and remideid by install of high temp wires and larger gauge. Only problem is “Clearance Clarence”. And driver pc board/reflector can only handle so much connection gauge in the tight areas involved. As for a multimeter I made the mistake of misposting earlier with a A/C inductive clamp that gave wrong readings for D/C. SO the answer is yes to multimeter no for ammeter.
I bet I could cook an egg on this thing!!!
The skyray 9xt6 got upto just about 200F as per my review.
So i believe it.
START USING IT TO MAKE BREAKFAST!!!
Oh how sad, you made no pictures.
I would be highly interested in a driver picture.
Which AWG was the stock wire?
I didn’t think there were be any difference inside the head compared to my Skyray 9x T6, there was a lot of room in the driver cavity. It’s like a big void in there only housing the two wires leading up into the reflector.
Glad the recycle hasnt gone out. It was late 2am+ I just used some high temp/volt test/probe wires approx. 4-5 times the installed gauge. OK size is: .5mm at the most!!! CRAZY SMALL!!! 1.5mm exterior insulation. And not high temp. wire!!! As for the driver I will take flashlight apart (its easy) and post pics. I will get you that picture later. Need to sign up for a picture hosting site. If anyone needs help with this pm me I would be glad to help.
Check out FMcamaroZ28 review I think this is all the same/like my light housing?
I will take some measures later and compare. Will let you know.
by the rediculously small driver wires I can’t believe they tested this thing and sent it out!! I think they based the driver gauge wire to emmiter on the 9 led light light. It worked and I guess they thought it would work on 12? CRAZY WRONG. Just glad I could fix it. would have been an 82 dollar loss.
Yes these lights are identical to the 9 led housing. Just different reflectors/emmiter placements. Too bad they didnt upgrade the driver wires so I didnt have to do it. I feel sorry for the guys that sent this back because they didnt have tools to fix it. What a pain.
Yep, it appears the 9Xt6 and 12x T6 are exactly the same housing and the difference is the reflector only and extra LED’s.
Same driver?
Don’t know Werner. I don’t have one to compare it with. Does anyone have a pic of the 9led driver for this Trustfire light?
There are pictures from 9xt6 in the review thread.
It looks just the same !
So what’s the conclusion about this light? Is it basically a 9XT6 with 3 extra leds thrown in but without the necessary upgrade to the internals to handle the extra power?
Not sure
I think if I had a 9XT6 to inspect I could give an answer.