dr_wu002
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I have a steripen. I had a steripen. I haven't had the opportunity to backpack in over 2 years now and I tried out this stupid thing and it didn't work over the weekend. I've always found it somewhat confusing to use and it seemed to have a mind of its own. Has anyone ever had this same problem? The problem was that I filled up like all of my Nalgene bottles with dirty bing-bing water and when I went to "purify" them with the pen the thing didn't turn on. The blue light that is. The indicator lights turned on (red/green) but they don't ever make sense as to what they're doing or mean. Eventually even they did not turn on. So I had contaminated all my bottles and ended up having to borrow tablets from MEB to "recondition" my bottles back into drinking condition. I continued throughout the weekend to get the pen to work and even tried "fancier" batteries to no avail. Last night after about 1/5 of vodka I went medieval on the thing so now I can say I had a steripen in the past tense.
Has anyone ever had continued luck with this device? I've had mine since 2005 and it worked only intermittent during that period. It seemed like it worked only when it felt like working and despite the fact that I read the directions its user operation never really resembled what the directions claimed it would. I'm very frustrated and now I have to buy some sort of pump to purify my water. I'm a cheap bastard and don't like buying stuff like this and felt that the $teripen would last me to my grave. I wanted to be buried with it.
Any suggestions? People rec'd the Katadyn.
-Dr. Wu
Has anyone ever had continued luck with this device? I've had mine since 2005 and it worked only intermittent during that period. It seemed like it worked only when it felt like working and despite the fact that I read the directions its user operation never really resembled what the directions claimed it would. I'm very frustrated and now I have to buy some sort of pump to purify my water. I'm a cheap bastard and don't like buying stuff like this and felt that the $teripen would last me to my grave. I wanted to be buried with it.
Any suggestions? People rec'd the Katadyn.
-Dr. Wu
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