Night Vision Chat Thread - Ask Us Anything
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If you can use a scope with glasses, NVG is just another optic. You may need to adjust the diopter. Get a piece of paper and draw a series of line with a marker. Stick it on the wall 2m away, kook at it, adjust focus until the picture is sharp, close your eye for a minute, reopen and turn diopter until the line are sharp again.
People run their mono with ballistic eye wears on, you will have enough eye relief.
I run a PVS14 over my non dominant eye. I can wear my prescription glasses for myopia but find it uncomfortable so mist if the time I go without glasses and set my diopter for my non corrected left eye.
Uncle G, you ever take your PVS14 on your adventures?
No, just backyard larping......
I do plan to take it out to a clear-cut and check the zero of the IR laser.
Both are some of Infiray's largest scopes. I prefer the RH50 Pro because of the dual optical zoom capability but the HYH50W has the ability to be used as a clip-on. So ultimately rather than saying "what's better" in a vacuum, you should evaluate how you will be using the scope. If you're looking for a standalone, the RH50 Pro is better but if you want the ability to be used as a clip-on also and can appreciate the 2k screen, the HYH50W has the advantage. The HYH50W also has a larger eyebox and easier-to-use controls (subjective opinion, but it has a dial wheel whereas the RH50 Pro has a bunch of buttons)
No because your corrective vision should theoretically get you close to 20/20 vision and you can set your diopter on your rear eyepiece for 0 setting. If however, you would like to use your NVGs without your eyeglasses, you can dial the diopter on the NVG eyepiece for whatever your prescription is. That's precisely what the adjustable diopter eyepieces are for. I would however suggest running your NVGs with your eyeglasses as you will likely want to flip your NVGs up at some point and may not want to fumble for your eyeglasses with uncorrected vision.
No plans to do so especially since Photonis Echos and Echo+ exist. NVT6 tubes would be at about the same pricepoint as Echos and why bother with Chinese tubes at that point?
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Short answer is no. Long answer is - maybe.
Light damage comes from two things - intensity and duration. If you park yourself in front of your headlights for 5 mins then you will likely get some tube damage. You could do similar damage by parking it in front of a candle for 30 mins.
Take a look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swFXvV3t4U4&ab_channel=DirtyCivilian
Light damage comes from two things - intensity and duration. If you park yourself in front of your headlights for 5 mins then you will likely get some tube damage. You could do similar damage by parking it in front of a candle for 30 mins.
Take a look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swFXvV3t4U4&ab_channel=DirtyCivilian
Photonis hasn't disclosed the technical reason of "why" their GP tubes are higher gain but potentially related to the amount of green phosphor that can be deposited onto the output screen.
But yes - it absolutely equates to a brighter image and better low light performance compared to WP.
When using a thermal clip-on, does the quality of the day scope's lenses matter at all? Since when using a clip-on, you're only viewing a picture of a small screen merely inches away, would an expensive scope have any advantage? This is assuming that the cheap scope tracks ok.
Glass quality is going to matter a lot less in this application for precisely the reason you stated. That being said, the strength of such a system is to be able to add thermal when you need it, so I would imagine you would still want a good day scope for the instances when you're not using your thermal. Unless you're planning on it being a permanent clip-on?
Hi there, I’m very interested in getting into dual tube setup. Do you carry any tubes that’s not made-in-china? Looks like photonis echo tubes are china-made too (from their website)
Photonis Shenzhen Technologies Co. Ltd
Address:
Photonis Shenzhen Technologies, Co., Ltd
Room 1202, office Phase 1, Chinese Overseas Scholars Venture Building, Nanshan District, 518057 Shenzhen, CHINA
Phone:
(+0086) 0755-8659 4155
Website:
https://www.photonis.com.cn/
Photonis Shenzhen Technologies Co. Ltd
Address:
Photonis Shenzhen Technologies, Co., Ltd
Room 1202, office Phase 1, Chinese Overseas Scholars Venture Building, Nanshan District, 518057 Shenzhen, CHINA
Phone:
(+0086) 0755-8659 4155
Website:
https://www.photonis.com.cn/
That's the Photonis regional office in China.
All of our Photonis intensifiers are made in the Netherlands and France.
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What's the rough cost to get into a single or dual bino setup. I don't know a lick of NV, all I know is I want a setup.
1600-2000 FOM Echo are ready to ship immediately.
https://coldharboursupply.com/products/ready-to-ship-ab-night-vision-rnvg-binocular-nvg
Intensifiers are autogated, housing is made by AB Nightvision in the US.
At the low-end, a monocular setup should run you about $4000 incl. mounting hardware, $3200 ish for just the monocular.
For binoculars, they start at around $6500.
Take a look at our Ready to Ship section.
https://coldharboursupply.com/collections/in-stock-night-vision
