Brand | SteriPen |
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Special Feature | UV Purification |
Product Dimensions | 7.3"L x 1.7"W x 1.7"H |
Package Information | Bottle |
Installation Type | Freestanding |
Power Source | Battery Powered |
Item Weight | 0.3 Pounds |
Model Name | Steripen Classic 3 with 40 Micron Pre-Filter UV Water Purifier |
Maximum Flow Rate | 667 Milliliters Per Minute |
UPC | 600316487450 899321000178 |
Global Trade Identification Number | 00899321000178 |
Manufacturer | Hydro-Photon, Inc. |
Item Package Dimensions L x W x H | 9.21 x 4.49 x 3.07 inches |
Package Weight | 0.3 Kilograms |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 1.7 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches |
Brand Name | SteriPen |
Warranty Description | 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty |
Color | White |
Suggested Users | mens |
Number of Items | 1 |
Part Number | SPPF-MP-EF |
Model Year | 2018 |
Size | One Size |
Sport Type | Camping & Hiking |
Fishing Technique | Spinning, Casting |
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Brand | SteriPen |
Special Feature | UV Purification |
Product Dimensions | 7.3"L x 1.7"W x 1.7"H |
Package Information | Bottle |
Installation Type | Freestanding |
Power Source | Battery Powered |
Item Weight | 0.3 Pounds |
Model Name | Steripen Classic 3 with 40 Micron Pre-Filter UV Water Purifier |
Maximum Flow Rate | 667 Milliliters Per Minute |
UPC | 600316487450 899321000178 |
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About this item
- Battery powered Ultraviolet light water purifier that is perfect for travel and outdoor use. Purifies up to 150 liters on one set of AA batteries
- Purifies a half liter of water in 48 seconds or 1 liter in 90 seconds. Simple and easy to operate. Device activates when the lamp is placed in water, simply insert and stir until the light shuts off.
- Destroys over 99.9% of bacteria Viruses and protozoa, like Giardia and Cryptosporidium Certified for purification by the water quality Association
- Fast safe effective and chemical-free doesn't alter Taste pH or other water properties reusable to purify up to 8,000 liters
- Tapered end fits most commercial water bottles, canteens, or drinking glasses.
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SteriPEN classic 3 is the next generation of our award winning classic; winner of time magazine's best invention of 2001. With improved battery life, ergonomics, and water resistance, classic 3 is the sleekest SteriPEN to date. A tapered neck fits most commercial water bottles and canteens. Four AA alkaline batteries purify 50 liters of water or use lithium batteries and purify 150 liters. An 8,000-treatment lamp delivers years of purification. Includes SteriPEN pre-/Filter and neoprene pouch. Batteries not included..
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ASIN | B00V7P1R86 |
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4.3 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #435,667 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors) #317 in Camping & Hiking Water Filters |
Date First Available | August 20, 2009 |
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Customers find the water purifier easy to use and lightweight, making it convenient for backpacking. They appreciate its functionality and ease of use, finding it a time-saver with clear instructions. However, some have differing opinions on battery life, water quality, build quality, and value for money.
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Customers find the water purifier useful and well-functioning. They say it works well with good quality batteries. Some mention that the form factor could be improved. Overall, customers are satisfied with the product's functionality and consider it a smart idea.
"...Both this model and the older model worked fine...." Read more
"Nice item but not the best with battery usage and it can be pretty picky...." Read more
"...copper top alkaline batteries may not be enough but works great with good quality name brand single use lithium AA batteries...." Read more
"...You have to be aware that no system works on water that's in the threads of containers, and both are less effective at treating the bacterial..." Read more
Customers like the lightweight and compact design of the water purifier. They find it convenient for backpacking, hiking, and camping trips. The lightweight lithium batteries work better in cold temperatures and have a longer lifespan.
"...So this was worthwhile for saving the weight and space of added steripens and batteries...." Read more
"Small and lightweight. Works great...." Read more
"...The SteriPen pre-filter is a nice addition, even though it's relatively heavy...." Read more
"...Lithium batteries are lighter, work better at very cold temperatures, and have a longer shelf life than alkaline batteries, in addition to simply..." Read more
Customers find the water purifier easy to use. It sterilizes water quickly with UV light and takes only a few minutes. The instructions are clear, and it's a time saver.
"...The SteriPens work by producing sterilizing UV light and take only a few minutes...." Read more
"...This device really is a timesaver, and easy to use...." Read more
"...We had to use some sketchy water a few times. Easy to use...." Read more
"...It does take a little while, about a minute...." Read more
Customers appreciate the water quality. They say it has no impact on the water quality, and it sterilizes water quickly. It's a simple way to make water safe to drink, and it treats 1 liter of water quite fast. The filterkit is a great bonus.
"...This newer model has a more efficient bulb, allowing about 50% more doses than the older model (using ultra lithium batteries)...." Read more
"...this for anyone who is traveling internationally and wanting to have safe drinking water!" Read more
"...from any stream, river, lake, and in less than a minute, you have sterilized water. I had no isses putting in the batteries and closing it up...." Read more
"...With a lamp life of up to 8,000 liters, you'll be drinking safe water for over 7 years!" Read more
Customers have different experiences with the battery life of the water purifier. Some say the batteries last a long time and are lithium-powered. Others report that the batteries die quickly, only lasting 15 gallons or less, and need to be replaced. The batteries used in the product vary from AA to lithium-ion.
"...The Classic 3 can use any type of AA battery, including rechargeables or, in an emergency, readily available alkalines...." Read more
"...kind of heavy, and if you going for any length of time you have to carry extra batteries or carry a backup Sawyer...." Read more
"...USB chargeable would be better. But this thing is awesome when the battery is good and you get the hang of useing it...." Read more
"...4 star because you need to can extra 4 AA batteries. Batteries only lasted 15 gallons and I had to change batteries." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the water purification. Some find it excellent for water purification and sterilizing for medical purposes, while others mention issues like it turning off early, not purifying properly, and being fragile. They also say it's difficult to clean the water once or multiple times.
"...me very fast; within three days. This is a great product for purifying your drinking water...." Read more
"Not always intuitive but it works for purifying outdoors! Make sure to put the batteries in correctly!" Read more
"...I find it somewhat ridiculous that a water purification method is so fragile when it is something that one would likely use while traveling or..." Read more
"Size, to purify the water" Read more
Customers have mixed reviews about the water purifier's build quality. Some find it durable and well-made, while others report issues like it breaking easily, being fragile, and having defective parts.
"...and I couldn't get it to work. Iodine is small, lightweight, fool-proof, and does the job. I returned this product. (not cheap) piece of junk." Read more
"...But unfortunately the replacement I received was so broken that it would simply go from a green indicator light to a red indicator light without the..." Read more
"it is a nice build but I could not get this to work. bad thing is I left in the box unopened for 3 weeks before going on my trip overseas...." Read more
"...The Steripen broke upon arrival at the airport and thus I had to default to my more reliable water purification method, Aquamira...." Read more
Customers have different views on the water purifier's value for money. Some find it easy to use, effective, and reasonably priced, saving them money on bottled water. Others consider it a waste of money, saying it doesn't work properly and is useless.
"...The vendor was charging a very fair price for this product what do you want, not engaging in the price gouging practices of all the other vendors..." Read more
"...Worked once on my next backpacking trip, then no more. Waste of money, completely unreliable...." Read more
"...Saved us so much money!" Read more
"I wouldn’t have given it a star at all if that was an option. Completely useless. It said my tap water in New York was unsafe...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2015I used this model Steripen along with an older Traveler model for a 1-week backpacking high adventure for our group of 10 scouts and leaders this summer. Both this model and the older model worked fine. This newer model has a more efficient bulb, allowing about 50% more doses than the older model (using ultra lithium batteries). So this was worthwhile for saving the weight and space of added steripens and batteries. One week after our trip, no issues with the water we drank from mountain streams for a week. In contrast, the scout group next to us used chlorine tablets to treat their water all week. Our scouts had a taste of their water at the end of the week and they said it did not taste good because of the chlorine. We always have backups, so I had Aqua Mira drops and Aqua Tabs in case of issues. We also filtered water before the Steripen, using the 10 liter Katadyn filter bag. Also a great product. Highly recommend.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016To decide which water purification system will work for you, you need to match capabilities with requirements—horses for courses, as they say. For example, if viruses are a concern then a typical .1-micron backpacking filter wouldn't be a good choice. Say, if you were an international traveler or you worry about norovirus. Viruses are the most common cause of water-born intestinal illness and filters won't remove them and don't claim to.
There are two modern ways to kill all pathogens, including viruses. The SteriPens are one. The other is the Aquamira Water Treatment Drops. The Aquamira drops work by reacting to produce an oxygenated chemical that does the work. The reacting and treatment can easily be done in the backcountry. The whole process takes at least 20 minutes but you can keep hiking for most of that. The SteriPens work by producing sterilizing UV light and take only a few minutes. The Classic 3 can use any type of AA battery, including rechargeables or, in an emergency, readily available alkalines. You get about 150 liters from a set of lithiums. The SteriPen weighs 141 g with batteries. The 1 oz Aquamira kit weighs about 75 g and treats 115 liters; you can adjust the mix for different volumes, such as 20 oz instead of a liter.
Another option would be to use Aquatab tablets. These create the same oxygenated chemical as Aquamira drops and also take about a half hour to work. They cost about ten cents per quart of treated water whereas Aquamira costs about a penny.
The SteriPen pre-filter is a nice addition, even though it's relatively heavy. It connects to the nifty Nalgene On-The-Fly 22-oz water bottle, but imperfectly. The 40-micron filter won't remove cloudiness and certainly not pathogens. You could also use a coffee filter or even a bandanna. If you don't need to filter out pine needles and chipmunks you can jam the SteriPen directly into the filled bottle's drinking tube. If you use repurposed 590 ml energy drink bottles to hold your water, as many thru-hikers do, you can drill a 7/8” hole in a spare cap and wedge the SteriPen into it during treatment—a perfect solution, except you'll have to decide whether to use the half liter or full liter treatment options depending on clarity and source of the water.
You have to be aware that no system works on water that's in the threads of containers, and both are less effective at treating the bacterial biofilms that form on tiny particles in cloudy water. You have to take care not contaminate your purified drinking water with even a drop of untreated water in your apparatus, as some pathogens need only a few organisms to cause an infection. Be sure to dry out those threads, and don't brush your teeth with untreated water. Aquamira treated water kills pathogens that it comes into contact with during the time it is working, so you can use that to your advantage, but SteriPen treated water is always inert.
One worry about the SteriPens used to be the life of the UV discharge tube. SteriPen has addressed that with their Premium Lamp Life Pledge. When the number of treatments with your registered unit approaches 8,000 SteriPen will send you a brand new unit. That's one reason I have decided to use a SteriPen when appropriate: not because I think that I will ever use it up, but because I admire a company that stands behind its products.
You should understand some things about acquired intestinal distress. Water-born illness doesn't come on immediately; most infections take about a week or so to manifest. If illness comes on more quickly, the most likely cause is food poisoning. If illness appears on an outing, you probably were infected beforehand. The most common mode of acquiring intestinal distress is, ahem, fecal-oral transmission. Avoiding that transmission process requires diligent hand washing when preparing food in the back country, something that is seldom assiduously practiced. I suspect that nearly all clear back country water is OK to drink without treatment except that downstream from persistent human habitation, but even if you become infected, you'll be home before it hits you.
5.0 out of 5 starsTo decide which water purification system will work for you, you need to match capabilities with requirements—horses for courses, as they say. For example, if viruses are a concern then a typical .1-micron backpacking filter wouldn't be a good choice. Say, if you were an international traveler or you worry about norovirus. Viruses are the most common cause of water-born intestinal illness and filters won't remove them and don't claim to.A great option for many circumstances
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016
There are two modern ways to kill all pathogens, including viruses. The SteriPens are one. The other is the Aquamira Water Treatment Drops. The Aquamira drops work by reacting to produce an oxygenated chemical that does the work. The reacting and treatment can easily be done in the backcountry. The whole process takes at least 20 minutes but you can keep hiking for most of that. The SteriPens work by producing sterilizing UV light and take only a few minutes. The Classic 3 can use any type of AA battery, including rechargeables or, in an emergency, readily available alkalines. You get about 150 liters from a set of lithiums. The SteriPen weighs 141 g with batteries. The 1 oz Aquamira kit weighs about 75 g and treats 115 liters; you can adjust the mix for different volumes, such as 20 oz instead of a liter.
Another option would be to use Aquatab tablets. These create the same oxygenated chemical as Aquamira drops and also take about a half hour to work. They cost about ten cents per quart of treated water whereas Aquamira costs about a penny.
The SteriPen pre-filter is a nice addition, even though it's relatively heavy. It connects to the nifty Nalgene On-The-Fly 22-oz water bottle, but imperfectly. The 40-micron filter won't remove cloudiness and certainly not pathogens. You could also use a coffee filter or even a bandanna. If you don't need to filter out pine needles and chipmunks you can jam the SteriPen directly into the filled bottle's drinking tube. If you use repurposed 590 ml energy drink bottles to hold your water, as many thru-hikers do, you can drill a 7/8” hole in a spare cap and wedge the SteriPen into it during treatment—a perfect solution, except you'll have to decide whether to use the half liter or full liter treatment options depending on clarity and source of the water.
You have to be aware that no system works on water that's in the threads of containers, and both are less effective at treating the bacterial biofilms that form on tiny particles in cloudy water. You have to take care not contaminate your purified drinking water with even a drop of untreated water in your apparatus, as some pathogens need only a few organisms to cause an infection. Be sure to dry out those threads, and don't brush your teeth with untreated water. Aquamira treated water kills pathogens that it comes into contact with during the time it is working, so you can use that to your advantage, but SteriPen treated water is always inert.
One worry about the SteriPens used to be the life of the UV discharge tube. SteriPen has addressed that with their Premium Lamp Life Pledge. When the number of treatments with your registered unit approaches 8,000 SteriPen will send you a brand new unit. That's one reason I have decided to use a SteriPen when appropriate: not because I think that I will ever use it up, but because I admire a company that stands behind its products.
You should understand some things about acquired intestinal distress. Water-born illness doesn't come on immediately; most infections take about a week or so to manifest. If illness comes on more quickly, the most likely cause is food poisoning. If illness appears on an outing, you probably were infected beforehand. The most common mode of acquiring intestinal distress is, ahem, fecal-oral transmission. Avoiding that transmission process requires diligent hand washing when preparing food in the back country, something that is seldom assiduously practiced. I suspect that nearly all clear back country water is OK to drink without treatment except that downstream from persistent human habitation, but even if you become infected, you'll be home before it hits you.
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2022Nice item but not the best with battery usage and it can be pretty picky. Would be better if it just had a switch for on and off and make it float so you don't need to hold it the entire time. USB chargeable would be better.
But this thing is awesome when the battery is good and you get the hang of useing it.
No more dealing with filter systems.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022Small and lightweight. Works great. Your typical copper top alkaline batteries may not be enough but works great with good quality name brand single use lithium AA batteries. Like with anything, have backup plans just in case. I've not had a problem and have never had to resort to plan B, but I bring a life straw as a backup just in case. Be prepared.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2019We used this to treat water from all kinds of terrible sources on our recent trip to southern India. We drank only water that we treated with this SteriPen. It worked GREAT. We did not get sick at all. We filtered our water first with the SteriPen brand filter, then we treated it with the SteriPen light itself, and our water actually tasted great and was completely pure. We were VERY impressed...and very thankful that we didn't get sick! Highly recommend this for anyone who is traveling internationally and wanting to have safe drinking water!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2020We brought a brand new Steripen (new batteries and tested at home a few times) out to the backcountry for a 3 day backpacking trip. We used the Steripen on about 15 1 Liter bottles over the course of that trip and were very pleased with the purchase. However, on our 12 mile hike out, the Steripen began to malfunction to the point where the lamp would only come on for 15 seconds at a time and the red lights would start blinking and the lamp would turn off. We tried to wait an hour, two hours before trying again and the same malfunction started. We tried inverting the bottle with the filter attachment (which is what had worked previously), tried it straight up, tried staying still, anything imaginable. Nothing changed.
I tried the Steripen today (nothing changed except one day later - didn't change batteries, etc) in the same fashion as using it yesterday, and it worked perfectly. No error codes.
We felt very fortunate that we were not in a very hot place and the 1 Liter of clean water that we had left was enough to get us to the trailhead. The malfunctioning of this product left us in a very vulnerable situation in the wilderness. I wanted to love this product (and I did for the first two days), but now I don't think I would ever rely on this again.
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Client KindleReviewed in France on November 20, 2023
1.0 out of 5 stars Durée de vie: 1 mois
Après un mois d’utilisation le steripen décharge les piles beaucoup trop vite: nous sommes en voyage autour du monde et malheureusement nous devons changer les piles toutes les semaines. À ce rythme nous aurons payé plus cher de piles que de steripen… sans compter l’impact environnemental. Nous sommes très déçus par ce produit et accessoirement en difficulté pour la fin de notre voyage.
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ManuelReviewed in Spain on June 22, 2023
1.0 out of 5 stars No cumple lo descrito
Se describe el producto Steripen Classic 3 con filtro y funda de neoprfeno incluidas pero solo vienela unidad Steripen.
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PonzianiReviewed in Italy on July 28, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Realmente efficace
Con un serbatoio dove l'acqua non è potabile per coliformi, e il filtraggio da un micron lascia problemi, l'impiego con la borraccia specifica a bocca larga toglie gli inquinanti, con provetta di valutazione ancora chiara dopo tre settimane.
Ci vuole un po' di abilità se si vuole rovesciare la borraccia, perché la tenuta è problematica.
Caro, anche se probabilmente riuscendo a capire come si fa, dovrebbero rimpiazzare gratuitamente la lampada uv a fine vita.
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Peter MaierReviewed in Germany on July 2, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Einfach, schnell, zuverlässig
Ich verwende den Steripen in meine Datsche um dort das Wasser nochmal sicher keimfrei zu bekommen (Bachwasser aus der nahen Quelle).
1 Liter in 90 Sekunden mit ein bisschen Rühren in der Kanne - perfekt.
Die Batterien halten gefühlt nicht sehr lange - allerdings habe ich nicht gezählt, wie oft ich den Steripen mit einem Batteriesatz benutzen kann. Ist also rein subjektives Empfinden. Ich verwende Marken-Akkus.
- William ThompsonReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars It did not kill me...2 options flock or this product really works
I cannot help but feel if this product failed anyone they would be too ill or dead to review it poorly.
All I can say it is I am still alive and well after using it for a week to purify water from rivers and lakes in the alps.
It eats through batteries so if you're going for an extended trek I would advise getting some rechargeable batteries and a method of charging them.