[pct-l] water purification/SteriPen

[Thomas Jamrog]

> I love my Steripen Adventurer.  I have used it extensively for the  
> last two years.

> Hiker friends have even  hit on me to use it when they don't want  
> the hassle of waiting around  to drink after mixing up Aqua Mira.  I  
> like that you can drink up 90 seconds after putting the Steripen in  
> the water.  I can stop at a water source, drink a quart and pack  
> another quart away in 4 minutes, if i focus on speed.
	I don't understand why you are applying a more elaborate Gatoraid  
bottle procedure.  I am able to put my Steripenpen in my Gatoraid  
bottle with a slight squeeze of the bottle neck and  90 seconds later  
we are moving on.
Uncle Tom
>
> I own the yellow steri-pen (Adventurer I think). Bought it on sale,  
> but
> can't bring myself to carry it even on day trips or short weekends. It
> weighs just 3.6 oz which seems pretty lite. But when compared to  
> tablets of
> chlorine dioxide it's not even close.
>
> To me cost is not an issue, nor resupply of tabs.
>
> True, the steripen DOES kill viruses. A big plus. And faster IF just  
> filling
> 1 L (90 seconds). If resupplying several liters EA liter takes 90  
> seconds.
> You can however "camel up" and refill the container since you can  
> drink
> immediately (unlike with chemicals where you have to wait at least 30
> minutes before you could camel up to reduce carried water weight.  
> And this
> assumes you have an additional container to fill for that purpose.)
>
> Another problem I discovered (very disappointingly) is the size of  
> the UV
> lamp is too large to fit inside many smaller neck bottles or  
> bladders which
> I would select for UL hiking. For some containers you might fake it. I
> carved a hole in a Gatorade bottle cap which allows the lamp to just  
> fit
> inside the neck of the bottle - but NOT deep enough to submerge the  
> sensors
> which allow the UV lamp to light. Cleverly though if I invert the  
> Gatorade
> bottle the water fills the neck and covers the contacts and Voila!  
> the lamp
> lites. Only minimal leakage from the cap. If I used this method I'd
> sacrifice one Gatorade bottle for it's cap, carrying the cap with  
> the UV
> lamp for this purpose. Note this would NOT work for garden hose size  
> caps
> like most narrow mouth bladders.
>
> FedEx
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Kent Spring <kjssail at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I hear alot about chemicals and filters, but this year I used a
>> SteriPen.  It is mid-weight between the other two, but has no
>> toxic remainder.  I did find it to be a bit finicky: there were
>> a couple of times that I really wasn't sure it had done its job.
>> It does require a battery, and you might want to back it up with
>> chemicals in case it breaks down.  I never had any stomach problems,
>> although that could just be luck.
>>
>> It will not do anything about the uranium that is in much of the
>> water in the SoCal mountains...
>>
>> Kent
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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