Opfor Night Solutions - Black Friday Night Vision Deals and More!

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Black Friday Deals Are Here!

We've got a bunch of deals on various mounts, night vision devices and thermals live on www.nightsolutions.ca, nearly everything else in store has an add to cart discount applied!

Black Friday IRay RICO HD RS75 Thermal Optic:
$21,545 now: $13,000!
1280 x 1024 Thermal Core Resolution
2-12x Zoom



Black Friday EON PVS-14 Ultralight:
$3,695 now: $2,295!
1400+ FOM NNVT Tube with Manual Gain
Imported PVS-14 Housing
Rochester Precision Optics Commercial Optics

Black Friday EON PVS-14 Ultralight:
$4,345 now: $2,995!
1600+ FOM Autogated NNVT Tube with Manual Gain
Imported PVS-14 Housing
Rochester Precision Optics Commercial Optics


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RPO Commercial lenses outperform all other commercial offerings on the market. These lenses are not manufactured as commercial lenses but as Milspec, in order to meet Milspec they must pass dive rating as their level of waterproofing. Our RPO Commercials pass IP68 waterproofing but not dive rating. See the chart below for further detailed specs.

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Tvw said:
Great prices. Any chance you guys will make / do any sort of sale on the BNVD 1431 starter kits?
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Our starter kits are typically already priced at a "discount" so at this time no plans to further reduce them.

We do offer starter kits with the RPO Commercial Glass through EONorth which is our entry level store.
 
Total NV noob here, can you explain in simple terms the difference between 1400+ FOM and 1600+ FOM? What am I getting for the higher price?
 
seamus said:
Total NV noob here, can you explain in simple terms the difference between 1400+ FOM and 1600+ FOM? What am I getting for the higher price?
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For sure! Figure of Merit is the most basic method of expressing the quality of a tube. It takes the resolution, measured in line pairs per mm and multiplies it by the signal to noise ratio, which is measured by the manufacturer to determine the quality of the image resolved. In simple terms, the LPM is the resolution of your TV (1080p vs 4k) and SNR is the quality of the input, VHS vs DVD (I might be dating myself with the VHS reference).

So the improvement from 1400 to 1600 will be an increase in resolution and signal to noise ratio, which will help resolve clearer images particularly at distance.

The system isn't perfect however:

A tube with 72 LPM and 25 SNR would have a FOM of 1,800 (72 x 25)
A tube with 60 LPM and 30 SNR would also have a FOM of 1,800

Additional tube specs such as Equivalent Background Illumination (EBI), Gain, Halo, autogating technology all play a part in the overall image quality but are not covered by FOM.
 
OpforNightSolutionsCorp said:
For sure! Figure of Merit is the most basic method of expressing the quality of a tube. It takes the resolution, measured in line pairs per mm and multiplies it by the signal to noise ratio, which is measured by the manufacturer to determine the quality of the image resolved. In simple terms, the LPM is the resolution of your TV (1080p vs 4k) and SNR is the quality of the input, VHS vs DVD (I might be dating myself with the VHS reference).

So the improvement from 1400 to 1600 will be an increase in resolution and signal to noise ratio, which will help resolve clearer images particularly at distance.

The system isn't perfect however:

A tube with 72 LPM and 25 SNR would have a FOM of 1,800 (72 x 25)
A tube with 60 LPM and 30 SNR would also have a FOM of 1,800

Additional tube specs such as Equivalent Background Illumination (EBI), Gain, Halo, autogating technology all play a part in the overall image quality but are not covered by FOM.
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Thanks for the explanation!
 
I have a question about the RPO lenses. Folks are saying that the eye relief on the RPO lenses is really short. If I wear glasses or ballistic lenses, will the eye relief be enough for a decent offset, or would there be parallax / artifacting on the edge of the lens?
 
Cilantro said:
I have a question about the RPO lenses. Folks are saying that the eye relief on the RPO lenses is really short. If I wear glasses or ballistic lenses, will the eye relief be enough for a decent offset, or would there be parallax / artifacting on the edge of the lens?
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Those statements regarding RPO 3.0s eye relief are a bit misleading at best. RPO 3.0 has a slightly smaller eyebox compared to Carson however the difference is a couple mm. RPO meets the US Milspec standard of 25mm of eye relief. Just about all of us here run RPO glass on our personal devices which we wear with all sorts of eyepro and glasses.

RPO 3.0 does have slightly more edge distortion than Noctis/Carson but better image clarity in the center of the glass. For me personally the biggest selling point is the weight savings, which is significant when wearing night vision regularly or for long durations.

With regards to corrective lenses, it's worth mentioning that most mild prescriptions can be adjusted for on the NVG itself using the diopter on the eyepiece.

Here's a more technical write-up on RPO vs Carson from our website.
 
Im looking at ordering a set but I noticed there are three different lense options over your two sites. The RPO 3.0 Light weight, the RPO commerical, and the US milspec. is there a difference between the RPO commerical and the lightweight?
 
OpforNightSolutionsCorp said:
Those statements regarding RPO 3.0s eye relief are a bit misleading at best. RPO 3.0 has a slightly smaller eyebox compared to Carson however the difference is a couple mm. RPO meets the US Milspec standard of 25mm of eye relief. Just about all of us here run RPO glass on our personal devices which we wear with all sorts of eyepro and glasses.

RPO 3.0 does have slightly more edge distortion than Noctis/Carson but better image clarity in the center of the glass. For me personally the biggest selling point is the weight savings, which is significant when wearing night vision regularly or for long durations.

With regards to corrective lenses, it's worth mentioning that most mild prescriptions can be adjusted for on the NVG itself using the diopter on the eyepiece.

Here's a more technical write-up on RPO vs Carson from our website.
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This is great info, thanks so much. Guess I gotta count the couch change to grab one of these then...
 
pirate604 said:
Im looking at ordering a set but I noticed there are three different lense options over your two sites. The RPO 3.0 Light weight, the RPO commerical, and the US milspec. is there a difference between the RPO commerical and the lightweight?
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There's some information in the first post on the thread here. To go into it a little further:

RPO exclusively makes Milspec night vision optics, they make the optics for the PVS31A and the GPNVG which are the primary issued binocular and panoramic night vision devices for US Military. However some of their batches fail to meet Milspec standards. Typically those batches would have been thrown out. What we've done is worked with RPO to set our own set of standards for the "commercial" lenses. Any lenses that fail Milspec but pass our standards become RPO commercial. Because these are designed and manufactured to be Milspec and only fail out during the testing phase there are no compromises in the raw component quality or assembly process. We can say with confidence that RPO Commercial optics are miles ahead of any other commercial lens offering currently on the market.

The primary differences between the RPO 3.0 Commercial lenses and their 3.0 Milspec lenses is their water rating. Commercials are rated IP68/waterproof while Milspec are dive rated. You can see the more detailed breakdown in the table of the first post here. Milspec testing involves extreme temperature cycling (think back of forth between an oven and a freezer repeatedly) in between water testing which is where most of these failures are seen.

In the past RPO has had issues with retailers purchasing failed milspec batches and then selling them as milspec, which is part of why we are the only distributor globally for RPO commercial.
 
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