Lighted Ballpoint Pen

[toos]

I'm looking for a good quality ballpoint pen (something that would use Fisher Space pen refills preferred) that has a white LED light in the tip for low light writing situations. If it used 1AAA as the battery source, that would be great! I'm open to suggestions on a high quality AG.. battery version too though. Anyone have suggestions?

 

[spoonrobot]

I'm interested in this also.

I have a pen with a threaded base incandescent bulb that illuminates the writing area and runs off of 1xAAA but it has poor brightness compared to current LEDs and writes poorly. I've looked around for a replacement quite a bit so I'm interested to see what pops up.

Seems like this should be a common sense item but most of the pens with lights have the light facing towards the user and not towards the writing end of the pen. :duh2:

 

[BillG]

Get the pietzl combo!

i bought a combo headlamp and pen.

works great......but its awfully slow writing with your head!

 

[chmsam]

I do not know of any pens that have a light and would use the Fisher refill but would a finger tip light work? Those are LED lights that Velcro around your finger and the light shines where your finger points. MalWart used to have them for about $1 or so and there are "military versions" for about $40. With the light on the finger tip you could just use any pen that you wanted.

 

[spoonrobot]

http://www.pilotmall.com/product/452/48

 

[s002cjs]

I can't find a reliable white one (besides one that DX carries, but I wouldn't consider it super-reliabel...worked so far, but quality just isn't there). Of all places, Linens n' Things carries one that takes button batteries, but it's in pink for breast cancer awareness. If you can stand the pink, my wife seems to enjoy the one I got for her, and it helps a good cause at the same time.

 

[spoonrobot]

Here's another one for anyone interested. I can link to the eBay seller I bought it from if you want.

 

[Lunal_Tic]

Here's another one for anyone interested. I can link to the eBay seller I bought it from if you want.

Wouldn't hurt

I have one that looks like that but is from Coleman and has y-g LEDs not white. I'd like a white one. What batteries does it take and how many?

TIA,
-LT

 

[Lee1959]

My wife, a nurse, has bought a number of these lighted pens from every source she finds, and none of them lasted a week at her work. She likes the idea also, but they all tend to stop working very quickly. They all have used button batteries from what I have seen.

 

[Illum]

the idea was of novelty...and still is. hence the continued use for button celled batteries of manning up and use AAAs

 

[darkzero]

 

[spoonrobot]

Here's the link:

Link.

It takes 1AAA battery.

 

[Illum]

H0LY CR@P!
We have CPF Pens and no one told me about this!

 

[Lunal_Tic]

Here's the link:

Link.

It takes 1AAA battery.

One AAA?! Thanks I think I'll get a few of these.

-LT