The 5 sec in the microwave works!
I had promised my wife I woukd disable the lights of a pair of cute sneakers my
7 year daughter wanted.The sneakers arrived from Amazon and I couldn't figure out hiw to disable the very annoying blinking LEDs.
Tried the microwave, and in 3 or 4 seconds, the LEDs were fried and there was no other visible damage :-)
Very clever solution!
Cool, you could do that with your kid's iPhone too. ^_^
TDD
Might cut down on distractions. More time for books and studies?
"Like, uh, well, you know, like, and he went... and then she went.... uh, like, rad, kewl, uh... and then she went..."
. Christ>> The sneakers arrived from Amazon and I couldn't figure out hiw to disable
It was also a clever solution when Bob F suggested it in the original thread over a year ago.
Another idiot post (M- in Europe) from homemoanershub
Stick it in the microwave.
Greg
My kids' school now prohibits light up shoes (and characters, etc.). I put he. In the old microwave set to 5 sec. After 2 sec each spaked. No more lig hts. Microwave still works fine. Perhaps for e same reason hotockets have f oil liners yet don't fry the microwave, the circuit in the shoes doesn't fr y it either.
My cousin invented the lights in shoes. I'm going to have to turn you in!
Thank you so much for this! The funny thing is I googled a solution on how to get rid of the blinking lights for my son's shoes (dress code prohibits it) and when I clicked on your picture, he has the exact shoes as the OP's pictures!
I ended up using the microwave for 5 seconds, worked like a charm. There was a little bit of smoking and rubber smell, but it's gone now. Shoes are good to go. :)
I removed the insert of the shoe...then pulled up the 2nd insert that was glued down....there were wires showing so I clipped them all with scissors then put the two insoles back in. :-) Super easy!!
Why do they put lights in sneakers? I never saw the sense to them!
But there is always a dummy waiting to blow money on something stupid like that, so I suppose thats the reason they make them...
Since you opened them, did you notice what kind of battery is in there? I'm thinking it would be a coin cell. Just curious....
Thanks for answering the question from 2011, and with no quoted text. Quite a trick.
How to turn lights off on light up tennis shoes
Remove the battery?
One "urban legend" is to run them in a microwave for a few seconds. Just not so long that they catch fire !
I saw a story about a mugger who wore shoes like that, and after he mugged someone, he was easy to follow, and they caught him.
It was a "Cops" episode. I saw it as well.
I saw it in the newspaper.
This comes a bit late and we just put our sone shoes in the microwave for 10 seconds and the lights are gone!!!
20 seconds and the Lithium battery explodes, then you need a new microwave, kitchen window, etc, etc.
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