Night Vision Chat Thread - Ask Us Anything

[Cold Harbour Supply]

Creating a chat thread - ask us anything about night vision, or just say hi.

[takeyerswing]

Hello and welcome to CGN! Do you have any details on the new Act in Black “14”? Not sure if pricing and specs have been announced yet but it looks very interesting.

[CODFan]

Gen 3 PVS14?

[FrankieT]

Looking for a bridge to accommodate a pvs14 and a FLIR Breach. Can you make that happen?

[CODFan]

Looking for a bridge to accommodate a pvs14 and a FLIR Breach. Can you make that happen?

X2 please

[Foxer2373]

Looking for a bridge to accommodate a pvs14 and a FLIR Breach. Can you make that happen?

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?

[griffin86]

Looking for a bridge to accommodate a pvs14 and a FLIR Breach. Can you make that happen?

It would be awesome if they could bring in RQE bridges for that purpose

[Cold Harbour Supply]

Looking for a bridge to accommodate a pvs14 and a FLIR Breach. Can you make that happen?

X2 please

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.

[Drift117]

Whats the EBI on the Pros?

[Cold Harbour Supply]

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?

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.