{"id":8962,"date":"2007-09-07T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/de-lighting-a-sandisk-cruzer-micro\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:00","slug":"de-lighting-a-sandisk-cruzer-micro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/de-lighting-a-sandisk-cruzer-micro\/","title":{"rendered":"De-Lighting a Sandisk Cruzer Micro"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4.0 GB from Costco (SDCZ6-4096RB) disassembled into its four major parts.
(Click for more photos…)<\/center><\/p>\n

A few weeks back I received a coupon in the mail from Costco<\/a> for $10 off (amongst other things) a 4GB SanDisk Cruzer USB flash drive. Yesterday at lunch my coworker Brian and I went up there and I picked one up for a total of $32.39 after tax.<\/p>\n

After getting back to work and running the U3 Uninstall stuffs<\/a> (I have no need for such portable apps) I started to become annoyed with the light on it. See, where the drive best plugs into my laptop the bright amber LED in it was generally shining up towards me. This LED is illuminated whenever the drive is connected, so there was pretty much a constant amber beacon, brighter than my laptop’s display, fighting for my attention. This had to go.<\/p>\n

So, I started looking at the drive and grabbed a thin razor blade to use as a pry bar and started figuring out how to release the plastic latches along the edge of the drive. Despite accidently nicking the case once and tearing out out a couple of the retaining holes along the edge of the case<\/a> I didn’t have much of a problem getting it open.<\/p>\n

Inside I found exactly what I expected: a fairly large (1206, I believe) surface mount LED<\/a>. After getting home I simply desoldered the LED<\/a> and put it back together<\/a>. The result? no more ugly, bright, distracting amber LED<\/a>. Yay!<\/p>\n

(All of the photos of the LED removal from the SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4.0 GB (photo gallery retired)<\/em> can be found here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, including shots of the top<\/a> and bottom<\/a> of the PCB.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4.0 GB from Costco (SDCZ6-4096RB) disassembled into its four major parts.(Click for more photos…) A few weeks back I received a coupon in the mail from Costco for $10 off (amongst other things) a 4GB SanDisk Cruzer USB flash drive. Yesterday at lunch my coworker Brian and I went up there and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24614,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions\/24614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}