A couple of points from what I've learned. Autogating reverses the electrical potential between PC and MCP, dislodging pollutants from the MCP. It has a cleaning function. It should also be possible to "whitebox" a tube to accelerate this process. Second, unless proven otherwise, modern gen2 should be treated like an XD-4 and protected from intense sources, because the lifetime is rather short and constantly degrading. Nominal performance can be lost in as little as 2500 hours.
I researched scopes as nearly all have updated and sorted out my needs and wants. I already have an 8 inch dob, which I am selling and buying this one. I am not into astrophotography as I have a seestar. This scope fits me perfectly as I didn't want to lose the light grabbing 8 inch. I have had computerised scopes before and they are quite expensive and can be quite heavy and sometimes I can't be bothered lugging heavy stuff at my over 70's age. Thanks for your beginner perspective it really helped my decision. Greetings from OZ.
NGL, BnD Allen is kinda right. It depends on what you are using this for. If you are making the excuse that this is for "tactical" use... : ( If you are using this for anything else, :)
@@alexheffernan9085 A couple amazing options that I own are the FoxPro Gun Fire (which can be attached to a gun or used handheld) or the Wicked Hunting Lights Scan Pro which is a headlamp but an awesome one. To see them in action check out Night Crew coyote hunting channel. Some of their vids use those products and they’re fantastic. Both options can switch between IR, red, and I think green or blue or something like that. Either way I can’t imagine much better than those.
4500 is the absolutely most expensive L3 high fom unfilmed White phosphor pvs14 and not necessary you can get a decent pvs 14 for 2 k if yoj kmow what your doinv even cheaper used
Manual gain: Manually adjusting the brightness of your night vision device Adjustable Iris: Manually adjusting the depth of field of your night vision device. Night vision lenses use F1.2 aperture. Apertures can range from F1.2-F22. The lower the number, the more lights can enter the lens. However, this comes with downside. It focus on small area and what ever is not in focus becomes blurry. Hence why when you focus your night vision device at stars, your hands look blurry. Adjustable Iris allows your night vision lens to go above F1.2 by opening or closing the iris. When your aperture increases, the amount of light that can enter your lens decreases but your focus area increases. So you can look at the stars and have your hands in focus at the same time.
Very cool video I had also noticed the same effect when using the iris on my thin filmed WP pvs-14 Turn the gain up but shutter the iris and it had the same effect Noise on the image increased more with thw gain up and the iris shuttered vs having the gain dialed and having the iris wide open.
Ever consider that’s because of you being gay? No wonder why everything you hear makes you feel that way! Or is it only me that makes you feel that way? Yikes. Appreciate the compliment, though.
Where i live its either foggy smokey or both and it makes a flashlight useless sometimes its bad enough i cant see 50yds with my nvg the thermal always picks up where the nvg leaves off
One note on the startup whine. It did actually exist on quite old IRNV for optics. The game sound is quite exaggerated but old systems would charge capacitors using a HV transformer, kind of like pre-led flash cameras, and they do indeed have a startup charge whine
