I just picked this up for $420. Appreciate your honest review. For the price along with the micro 3x for $199, I couldn’t let the lifetime warranty go 😅
I believe the reason they choose to gate going from 4 to 5 would be so you don’t have negligent white light use. You have to intentionally switch them from one to the other. On larger devices this would usually be implemented with a safety screw, but size constraints made this the better option.
Love mine. It’s duty-grade for sure. Good, sound construction and reliability. The flickering isn’t something you notice when you’re experiencing an adrenaline dump... gotta be realistic in your review.
The flickering isn't just about being ugly and annoying (although it is) - it's about what it tells you about their electrical engineering (probably not good). If a competent electrical engineer had their say on this design, they would probably either use a much higher frequency PWM or a constant current regulator. The flickering suggests to me that there was either a poor design process or cut corners.
Own the gen 2 UH-1 and love it. Unlike my prior EOTech that dimmed our due to a leak and was out of warranty, my Huey has a lifetime warranty that Vortex will repair or replace it with. Can’t go wrong with this holographic.
I would not recommend EOTechs due to their gas leak problems (I have killed several that way), and I would not recommend vortex for the reasons given in this video. Just stick with aimpoint if you want an RDS
@@YAGERMFG weird if I use the power button on mine it doesn’t drain at all when hooked up I figured it out cause it used to if I left the battery pack on even when device off maybe test out what I said in first comment
@@YAGERMFG I’ve had mine plugged in and all hooked up for almost a year now without touching it and it turns on and ran for hours use the power button on batt pack if u dnt shut the pack off it will drain mine used to till I figured it out
The flickering reticle is evidence that it's poorly made, which you will definitely notice if it breaks during a realistic use situation. Low frequency PWM = low quality electronics design.
@@YAGERMFG If that was the case, you would hear about that failing. As of right now, battery drain is the issue everyone complains about. Haven’t heard of the reticle dying.
No offense yet - chinese made - I do not trust the people we are seeing oppsing us economicly, medicinally, scientificly, nor militarily as viable from buying from No lack of respect that you do As long as you reserve the right to use it on them if they invade your (our homeland) But I will never buy outside of American made (to put vack again what I can into the American economy)
I have a X400U-A-GN on my HK45CT I’d like to get 2 of these one in FDE for my Glock 19X and get it milled for a Trijicon SRO and one in Black with and milled for a black SRO for my USP Tactical 45 or 45CT and sell the X400 or use it on my Benelli M4.
your videos are so good (great comprehensive information) and the filming is exactly what i’m looking for (i.e. showing the product in great lighting without distraction).. love your quality, hope your channel grows in time to come.
I absolutely love mine . I love the wide window as well it is soooo much wider than some Of my red dots and absolutely love the micro 3x as well. They are both light weight.
This is probably the dumbest question ever, but what type of scopes do you recommend to use with this? Does the scope itself have to be a red dot, or have IR capability? Can you use a 1-8 LPVO?
Regardless your optic is completely separate from the laser/illuminator. You don't shoot your laser through your optic. You actively aim with the laser. If you want to shoot passively. Without a laser, You need an optic with night vision capabilities to shoot decently.
Objective lenses, either on a camera or on NVGs or elsewhere, effectively gather a separate copy of the image from every point on their surface. We're just blocking a few of those copies. If you take a small object and hold it directly in front of your pupil, you'll be able to see "around" it as well.
They are not because it does not lock in.. just push connect and the are not the ninety degree connectors. So you can get hung up easier on branches and things like that
If you could have these or PVS-31 alphas which would you get. I like the idea of having an expanded field of view but I also like factory built L3 and Eotech NVGs
The C series can run from either on board battery or the external battery pack. You can even remove the internal battery and use just the external battery to save weight. Very glad I got the C5 and not the CE5.
Quality review. I've owned mine for about 6 months and been using it a few times a week, everything you said is spot on. It fits its niche quite well though, which is providing instant detection while patrolling through areas with short sightlines. It sucks having to use a monocular when walking through the woods as you're constantly revealing new territory but never really seeing further than 100 yards. Once you get to those vantages is when you'd want to take a moment and scan the surroundings in a static position, which is where a handheld monocular is the proper tool. That means that if we consider the performance within the proper context of a head-mounted thermal, you aren't losing out on much compared to a CE5 or even an ECOTI. In wide open terrain maybe, but if you're expecting to detect stuff in the desert for example with a COTI/equivalent, you're gonna have a bad time.
