Night Vision Chat Thread - Ask Us Anything
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Serious question, why would you bridge them? You can’t use them at the same time, I could see running them on independent arms so you can switch from one to the other but not sure the point of a bridge?
It would be awesome if they could bring in RQE bridges for that purpose
Restricted for Export out of the US I'm afraid, but I heard there is a decent knockoff made by a company called SOTAC. Decent for flat-range work and hobbyist use, but I can't recommend it in a professional capacity, for liability reasons.
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Hybrid vision - you have thermal over one eye, traditional analog image intensifier on the other eye and your brain "fuses" the images together for a substantial increase in detection capability. It takes a bit of finessing to get the images to align but once you have it dialed in, and some mental acuity to adjust but once you get it sorted, it works nicely.
Traditional image intensification has its limitations. As an example - livestock, pests, or... let's just call them "hot targets", hiding behind thick brush. This is where a fusion system can really come into its own for early detection.
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All of our devices are built with Photonis Echo Gen2+ White Phosphor tubes. Why? Because from our experience sampling most of the Photonis line, they offer the best combination of price-to-performance.
Echos have an EBI range from 0.1 to 2.5 with most falling in the 1.2 to 1.8 mark.
If you have specific EBI requirements, you can choose the Hand-Select option and we can work with you to pick the right tube out of our inventory.
Here's a link with some info:
https://coldharboursupply.com/blogs/news/what-is-hand-select
The Act in Black "THE14" is basically our Spyron ( https://coldharboursupply.com/products/spyron-pvs14-night-vision-monocular-white-phosphor )with some lightweight lenses. It's possible to get them but pricing would be well north of $4500 CAD + HST.
The Spyron is due to be back in stock in under 2 weeks.
If you're specifically looking for a lightweight monocular option, we have something else cooking in the works that should come to fruition early next year.
Out of the question I'm afraid as US tubes are restricted for export due to ITAR, and Harder Digital tubes (Germany) seem to be prohibitively expensive. From our comparative testing, Photonis tubes hold their own against their US Gen3 thin-film counterparts while offering a full warranty and support.
Check out some of these links where we put Photonis Echos up against US Gen 3 thin-film OMNI 7 contract tubes:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSYCZirDX3L/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSMZBxvnoal/
Where you will start seeing a difference is in truly dark situations with little to no ambient light - this is where "filmless" technology really shine, but again, impossible to obtain legally unless you're MIL/LE working directly with L3 (think CANSOFCOM)
On the flip side, we've demo'd these at night at some events and in a blind test, most people actually PREFERRED the Photonis Echos as they exhibit less image noise and higher resolution, especially in moderate to mixed-light (eg: urban) scenarios.
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I am curious about this as well... thanks!
We're in the middle of testing some options out. Problem is cheap clip-ons aren't good (Armasight - huge POI shifts), and good clip-ons aren't cheap. While we'd love to get our hands on an L3 CNVD-LR, most of the options you've listed are unfortunately definitely ITAR-restricted.
Check out some Pulsar units, made in the EU (France). I think a few were floating around Amazon a few years back. Very difficult to have as a regularly-stocked item, possibly in 2022...
Would something like this be available in Canada? & are thermal imagers covered under the same rules as night vision for export from the US? Thanks
RICO Mk1 640 50mm Thermal Weapon Sight
https://irayusa.com/rh50
Thermal unfortunately does fall under the umbrella of "night vision" (it's just a different spectrum), and are thus regulated under ITAR and on the USML. Check out some of the Pulsar offerings, I recall they were decent from us messing around with them a couple of years ago. IRay is actually a Chinese company so you don't exactly have to go through the US for these things.
