Clean water

[Stevie]

Has any one tried one of these :-

http://www.steripen.com/video/video.html#

It looks a bit bulky and runs off bateries but has any one actually tried it?

 

[raskusdrotti]

Bloody hell!!!

$150 and only suitable for clear water!!!

I would hope it works really well......

Although it does look rather interesting

Anyone?

Neil

 

[innocent bystander]

You could pop it in your mouth to toughen up your fillings ?

 

[Goose]

Doesnt a PET bottle in the sun for an hour do the same thing?


PS the above is a question dont try it til you have checked!!!!!

 

[innocent bystander]

Doesnt a PET bottle in the sun for an hour do the same thing?


PS the above is a question dont try it til you have checked!!!!!

I suppose if it was hot enough, and you put it in the right place it might get warm enough to do something. But it is probably the right light spectrum to grow a new colony of something nasty.. After all, the sunlight can kill the things that are supposed to be killing the bugs ?

 

[Stevie]

You could pop it in your mouth to toughen up your fillings ?

ouch...sun burnt tongue

 

[Goose]

I knew I had seen it somewhere, I think I also saw a water bottle that was sold as a UV steriliser,but I cant find that.
http://www.devalt.org/da/tsb/basin/basinsouthasia/faq/waterfaq1.htm
A bit slower than the electric light one but if you are stuck.....

 

[innocent bystander]

Interesting, but that could be a long 5-6 hours wait if you were thirsty..

 

[Goose]

Interesting, but that could be a long 5-6 hours wait if you were thirsty..

PPPPPPP

 

[innocent bystander]

It's probably alright if you were in one spot, in a very hot place and you had a dozen of them so you could get a rotation going.

I wonder if the UV one is any better than the miox jobby. They both use batteries, though that probably isn't the best idea in the world. Something else to run out in an emergency...???

 

[Goose]

I googled UV sterilisation and there seems to be a lot of UV systems out there, not all portable but it seems to be more effective/popular than I thought it would be.

 

[innocent bystander]

Your not wrong !! Does seem geared towards "rain harvesting", swimming pools and aquariums though. And for the rain harvesting you need to filter it anyway, to make sure that the little blighters can't hide behind particulates. Which is making me lean towards a decent filter and either boiling or chems. And they dont need batteries !!

And damn it, i have a katadyn already....

 

[bp1974]

I saw this a few months back and thought it looked like an interesting concept. It uses some kind of electric/chemical effect and only needs a watch battery and some salt to work. I've found MSR to be one of the few outdoor companies to make nothing but good kit so I'd like to give this a go sometime.

 

[match]

I'd probably still favour a good quality pump over a chemical/miox system - both of these have components that you might 'run out of' (chemicals/batteries/sunshine ). Add to this the time delays involved (the dwell times for the MSR MiOx solution can still run up to 4 hours).

Now to decide if I can afford a katadyn pocket filter...

 

[Stevie]

4 hours does seem a very long time. You could have had a good fire going, cooked your food, cleaned your water and gone to bed in that time