A Case for the PVS-14 (over Duals) 

"Look at the poors, fighting over mono- vs dual-tubes." - Quad-tube owner, probably.

it’s too late ive already adopted rnvgs as my personality

This seems like a good example of the 80/20 rule. You'll get at least 80% of the effectiveness of a dual or more tube setup with just a single in a simple mount vs that getting the last 20% that costs double or more not counting the different mounts or battery setups.

Quick anecdote on why I prefer monocular over DT: force on force night training, I use my unaided eye to see colors of lights that only show as green in the aided eye. See a couple lights from houses, cars in the distance, towers and one light that I can't see with my unaided eye, even tried to look through my 6X scope but still couldn't see the light source that I could see through the NOD, guess it's somebody using IR. Show my PL (who was running DT), we maneuver to the area and sure enough it's opfor team and their point man has his built in IR illuminator on so he can see what's in front of him. We set up a hasty ambush and lit them up. Not saying I wouldn't have seen that with DT but seeing what color of lights I can see through the NOD with my other eye helped me identify a potential adversary.

My favorite thing about my PVS14 is how easy it is to take places because of its small footprint. Outer coat pocket, sunglasses pouch on most backpacks, etc. For that reason alone I know I've gotten more use out of it than I would from a bigger dual tube setup.

This video is like an intervention for pvs-14 owners with their eye on a dual tube setup. Thank you.

Chapters: 0:00 Pollen hate 1:12 Disclaimer 2:10 Dual Tube in short 3:43 Rough specifications and function 8:12 Night vision is a skill 9:14 Weight 10:05 Monocular benefits 12:08 Stigma and cost 12:54 What to consider 14:14 Outro / Doggo

Appreciate the shoutout! Fun fact: nearly all of the white phosphor footage on Brass Facts was shot through an Elbit YH tube PVS-14

Agreed, save the money and buy a thermal optic clip-on for your rifle. Between the NVG and the Thermal, you can see just about anything.

Since getting out of service, I've always stayed with DTs because of the rule "two is one and one is none". I ran double PVS14s for a long time before upgrading to PVS31s. I still prefer the dual 14s though, because I can operate each independently. I cherish my natural night vision over amplified NV, simply because I never trust machines completely (Murphy's Law and whatnot). Running DTs (especially the dual 14s) means i can have one on and in active use, and if it goes down I still have another that operates independently, effectively doubling the run time and reliability of the system (if you've ever been caught pants down on a night op in combat with only one NV device that fails catastrophically, you'll understand immediately why this is a huge benefit... mine literally took a bullet through the housing firing a breach, and I wasn't even using them at the time). Yeah, it weighs more, yeah it's possibly an unnecessary redundancy, but it's worked for me and now that I'm a civilian, there is no SOP to shit on my parade. In the end, use what works and train with what you've got. There is no substitute for actual experience and training. Train in your kit, understand your capabilities realistically, and be honest about your shortcomings. You don't survive decades in war by being stupid... you get there by learning from the mistakes you survive, acknowledging you limitations, always working to improve, and developing your team's cohesion. If you want to fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a team.

Interesting thinking. Buying a mono now rather than a dual in 18 months and getting 18 months of practise on the mono seems a good idea. Many people did some crazy stuff with just a mono and some of us remember a time when your shared a mono between 5 or 10 of you.

One other advantage to single is, quickly seeing if that bright light source you saw on your night vision is vis or IR. This is important because, if it's a IR light, that tells you that something is there that can see IR light, so don't use your own illuminator. and if it's a vis light, that tells you that likely whoever it is, probably doesn't have night vision.

I know this is a year late, but I'm definitely on team monocular. For me its about the weight savings,battery usage, and situational awareness with my naked eye.

I stooped low this week and pulled a poors move. I bought a WP PVS-14. I took it out last night to give it a little test run and I was pleasantly surprised by just how superior it is to even the best GP tube I used in the Marine Corps 7 years ago. The clarity, color and how much light it gathered on an overcast pitch black night was almost mind blowing. Yeah, it's not a high speed gucci dual tube but for less than half the price I have a really high quality night vision capability in my hand right now that I can begin training on right now. The other $5-6k that I didn't have to spend? That can go to ammo, mags, kit, lights, lasers, comms and a myriad of other preps while still having 80% of the "capability" of a dual tube.

I'm blind in one eye I use to think it sucked UNTIL I looked at night vision 😀 for price of 2 ok tubes I can get 1 really good one 👍🏻

I work on a regional swat Team, have been doing so since 2014. I’m a tactics instructor and also teach woodland tracking. Duals are always going to better (articulating) for a host of reasons. Chief among those are the depth perception, ability to have the Pros of mono, and dual. Also, at the end of the day it all comes down to what you can afford and IF you’ll train with the systems.

90% of the time there’s enough ambient light to use the unaided eye for checking on your feet without moving ur head. Also can use thermal with free eye. Plus what you said. Love my 2700 dollar PVS14. 34 SNR

Everyone should own a pvs14 before they buy duals, even if its well within your budget. I've attended nv training events and ran circles around guys using my old 14, because I had spent so long under nods in the military (using a 14) You develop the fundamental skills of dealing with limited focal planes, depth perception, skillful navigation, etc. By buying duals outright, you're effectively ensuring you never fully develop those core competencies. I love my dtnvgs, but I would not appreciate them nearly as much if I hadn't developed the skills with a 14 to fully exploit those quality of life improvements as you put it. Plus, having a spare nod is being able to equip someone else with nightvision, and if you think one person with nods is cool, they really shine when you can use them as a team. Buy a 14 first. Even if you intend to buy duals too. Hell, buy them both and keep the duals locked up after you've used your 14 for a year. Trust me. You blow people's fucking minds when you walk a railroad tie like its nothing under a 14, or you're catching a tennis ball, etc. Being good with a 14 is just fucking sexy. And then, after all that, when you put on your duals, you feel like a fucking god.

I dream about going shooting once a month let alone night shooting 😹 most folks barely go once a year I’m trying to up my practice times but with ammo and everything skyrocketing it’s difficult to budget in the time & funds for ammo and gas, here’s hoping I can figure something out Great vid Brass Facts

You have missed two of the major advantages of using a binocular, which are visual acuity and perceived signal to noise ratio. There is also a trick about low light performance that benefits the binocular. The first is the improvement in visual acuity, which is to say that you get a very meaningful improvement in recognition range. The brian performs a function called binocular summation and the improves your visual acuity. Imagine you are at the eye doctor and they ask you to cover one eye and read the smallest line you can see. Then they have you cover the other eye and do the same. For the vast majority of people, when you use BOTH eyes, you are able to read the next lowest line (assuming your vision is more or less the same in both eyes). This works with a NV Binocular as well. Try it some time using a test chart with your binocular vs your monocular. My bet is that you will see finer detail on your chart using the full binocular. As the old saying goes, two eyes are better than one. When using the binocular, you will also perceive that the signal to noise ratio is higher. Because the random speckles in each tube never appear in the same exact place in both tubes at one time, once again, your brain tries to process out some of this noise and the end result is that the perceived signal to noise ratio will be about 1.2x to 1.3x better in the binocular. (Two tubes of SN 30 would give the perception of maybe SNR 35) Those are the major benefits, but the last benefit is kind of off a trick that you can do with binocular that you can't do with a monocular. Binocular summation will make it appear that the image (when using both eyes) is about 30% brighter than you would see with the same output luminance. The way this trick works is that as compared to a monocular, in a very dim scene, you can turn the gain down more in the binocular than in the monocular to lower the noise in the scene. If you turn the brightness down too much on the monocular you reduce the noise, but you lower the image brightness to the point where the eye has trouble seeing low light detail. If you use the same output brightness on the binocular, you can lower the gain even more and because your brain is stacking the image together, you will still be able to see more detail even though the image each eye sees is dimmer than the single eye sees in the monocular. All of these things mean that the binocular enjoys a significant advantage in low light situations (assuming you are working with enough light to be above the EBI threshold of the tube). Now the question of whether it is worth the extra cost depends on your need to work in the lowest light conditions and maintain the maximum recognition capability. If you know how to properly compare them, the binocular enjoys a clear superiority in seeing into the night. In suburban conditions the binocular advantage is not going to be enough for most people to justify the cost, but if you work in dark environments and need the ability to see the most detail at the greatest distance, the binocular cost may seem well worth it.

I agree with akot of what you said. My philosophy is a pvs-14 is good for individuals who are most likely to work by themselves. The ability to use your non dominant eye under NODS while maintaining your natural night vision with your dominant eye is critical. Specially when you'd most likely be moving from and indoor setting to an outdoor where you'd have more ambient light and now you have to transition quickly to non NV shooting. Theres also the weight considerations and the ability to easily stow them when they're not needed because of its smaller footprint. DT's are great when working in a team environment and you don't have to worry about field of view with each of your teammates covering sectors of fire. Also better perceived depth perception. It's easy to get fixated or tunnel vision under DT's and forget about how narrow your field of view is.

Mono tube is my preference. Got used to it over a decade ago. When I finally got my own personal PVS-14 a year ago, I found navigating with it was like riding a bike. Having that single night adjusted eye is invaluable..... especially in situations that aren't total darkness.

I made a prediction about the video's content before watching, and I was pretty on the money. I agree with most all of what you said. The distinction between no NODs, single tubes, and multiple tubes is a curve of diminishing returns because, as you stated, cost is a very real factor. I'd love to run 31s and have a set of panos for shits 'n giggles, but I won't be making the most of their capability 99% of the time, and in my current and estimated situation, that 1% I may use them will not be at the stakes that others using them will be at. I like to compare it to a stock Glock vs Roland Special. Besides the fact that the Roland was started as a joke, the marginal performance gain I get from the upgrades that cost as much as the gun itself, will not be used to the fullest potential because I'm not that good of a shot. I can't outshoot my Glock to the point of seeing benefits from an RS, like how my finances can't justify the marginal benefits that multi-tubes get me.

You can also buy a pvs 14 and then save up and get a second one and bridge and culminate them together. Then you have two devices that can act as one but still become two if needed

I largely agree if budget is a concern. I tell my friends who claim they're saving for duals that a mono now is better than duals later. However, I would never trade my duals for a mono. I've run every setup from gen 2 7b's to my wp rnvg's and I just couldn't conceive of having something of lesser capability at this point. I would do it if I had to. But begrudgingly.

"Night vision is a skill rather than a gear capability." Annnnnd this is what most people glass over when talking NVGs, the training time. It isn't just *click whirrr* and now you're Sam Fisher. As Garand Thumb says, "if you don't train, you're just an expensive loot drop." I'm partial to mono-tubes, but that's probably because it's what I was issued and trained with.

I would just like to add. Dual tube nvds don’t really add any “depth perception” or enough for it to be very meaningful. Though you will gain stereopsis with a dual tube set up it is very limited. You’re subconsciously relying a lot on monocular cues. For example, relative size and height, overlapping contours, texture gradients, convergence of parallel lines and, perhaps most importantly, motion parallax. Another thing, depth perception is not hard to pick up on nvds, it’s actually distance estimation.

Thank you very much for this video. Very good information for those of us looking at getting into night vision for as little as possible.

If you can afford dual tube NVGs you can also afford a single tube NVG + a 3-4000 buck thermal scope which gives you *much* greater capability* than dual tube NVGs and it's not even close. *Ask the 2017-2021 ANA.

I have L3 tubes in a DTNVS housing. I borrowed a friend's spare L3 14 unit for close to a year while he was deployed to shoot, hike, and drive under. I know I would've bought a dual tube system eventually, but I have some regrets of not buying my own 14 before a DT system.

Picked up my first pvs-14 this year. Absolutely love it! Gen 3, white phosphorus trybe defense with the elbit tube 👌🏻 zero blems. I would love to have a pair of dual tubes but between the cost and having an open eye for relief and peripheral vision I really like and prefer the pvs-14.

I had the $$ for Duals but bought 2 14's so I can split them for a cohort if needed. Pano bridge works great too.

In all honesty. I watch all of your videos, I comment on a bunch, mostly simping for Nova. This video, it’s at the right time that I watch it again, as I am finally about to pull the trigger on my first PVS-14. In some strange way I don’t feel like I’m such a poor and will be under matched at all now. And as usual…. Nova footage at the end! Gold! She is, and always will be, the star of this channel. Aloha 🤙🏽

Ignoring cost entirely, maintaining good natural night vision on one eye is much more valuable than 99% of people know or acknowledge. Very few people have ever spent several hours outside at night without looking at a single artificial light source. It takes at least half an hour without looking at so much as a candle for your natural night vision to really kick in. When you run a mono, your natural night vision gets good enough after a while that the images between your aided and unaided eyes blend together to basically feel like binocular vision. The fov limitation goes away and your off eye fills in the peripheral as it would with a red dot sight. White phos makes a big difference because the color pallete matches starlight, and running the gain as low as possible while still seeing detail helps the images collimate eithout having a 3d glasses effect. If i was a spec ops guy planning to run from a mid day city into a dark tunnel and take a fight without time to sit around and get adjusted id take duals. But if i was planning to go on a long hike in the woods at night, but didnt want to light the whole place up with flashlights, id take a mono set up every time.

I feel like this was a super practical take on things. Honestly it seems Like a good PVS-14 and good Thermal might actually make more sense as an over all value then a dual set up.

I'm a simple man; I see a new Brass Facts video and click on it. Wish I could enjoy an old fashioned while watching it at work lol

My kid is currently assigned to a line platoon in the 173d Airborne, and he is still just issued a PVS-14. As a matter of fact, per his own words, my backup set of nods (AGM Gen2+ WP PVS-14s with a FOM of 2048) are much higher in quality than his current issues PVS-14s. Literally the majority people in the Army running binos or really high spec -14s are in USASOC or Aviation. There are a few other, but it’s still mostly high speed dudes like the 173d’s Ranger Company and a few similar units in the 82d, 101st, etc.

Did thousand of hours under duals. I prefer mono myself. For those having a hard time getting vise to either. Where them around your house at night, and do whatever laundry, dishes, garbage, whatever. You'll learn and acclimate quickly.

I started out with a PVS-7 and then bought a PVS-14.WP and love it. I always thought I would keep the PVS-7 as backup but thinking of selling and getting another PVS-14.

I use night vision very often and have hundreds of hours on both a pvs14 and DTNVS, here's my autistic word dump. Overall I agree with the main points. An MNVD will give you basically all of the capabilities and the advantages of a BNVD will not let you run circles around the pvs14 users. I would rather fight along the guy who trains with his MNVD regularly than the guy who takes his BNVD out of the safe once per quarter. And BNVD users treating their NOD/S as an invisibility cloak because they never learned to actually read lighting conditions is one of my biggest pet peeves, thank you for touching on that. It is worth starting out on a pvs14 first just to learn this IMO. On cost: This is all assuming that night vision is entirely a sunk cost. It actually holds its value quite well, especially if you buy used, on sale, or snag a desirable tube. So while the 10k pricetag of an 18um L3 DTNVS seems unjustifiable compared to a 4k PVS14, even if you buy poorly you're only gonna lose at most 1k on the resale. And at best you'll make money on the sale, as I did on my last PVS14. So if you cant afford to have that much of your money tied up onto a single item, that's entirely reasonable. But if your long term cash reserves would be that large anyways, I think it's entirely reasonable to treat night vision as a pseudo long term cash reserve, especially with the availability of cheap insurance which will cover theft and accidental damage. Also a note on BNVD advatages not touched on in the video: -being able to set two focuses is valuable for moving around close quarters and cover. Even more so if you have an iris. And for non-shooting tasks, being able to have that close depth of field while moving through the woods off trail is very nice so that you dont get hit in the head by as many branches. -long term comfort, it is much more comfortable to use a BNVD vs MNVD for more than a few hours. -increased perceived SNR, through a BNVD your eyes will correct for noise and some blind spots(like what it does so you dont notice your nose) automatically, which creates a clearer image through a BNVD. This isnt as much of an advantage for someone in the desert where conditions are much better for NV use, but those of us in the foggy, heavily wooded mountains of the PNW et al. can see a noticable advantage in near threshold usability. In threshold enviornments while moving on rough/no trail, having that second image to recognize and maneuver around obstacles becomes a much greater advantage.

Thank you. This video made it crystal clear that I don’t need dual tubes.

I truly enjoyed the 14s back in the day. I like having a eye that is adapted to the dark and let’s you know when you’re. Not actually owning the night and you’re lit up.

I know this sounds like some serious backyard engineering...but... I just made my own... 10 years ago, they were selling these kids spy gadget night vision setup. My friend got it for me as a joke, thinking they would not be real night vision, but they were... Granted, the field of vision for distance was not stellar and you were limited in that capacity, but they were fully functional night vision. I took them apart, upgraded everything (the parts were cheap) and 3D printed a new shell for them. For kicks, I mounted them on one of my old hockey helmets to see if it would work and it does! I know it sounds sad since I had to make my own, but I wanted to see if it could be done and I'm that kind of poor when I have to DiY it. That helmet now looks like it came from some sci-fi FPS shooter lol.

14:05 I did exactly this. Bought a 14 3 weeks ago and now have ARNVGs from Nightline on the way. The first time I went for a hike under NV was the same feeling as the first time dragging knee on motorcycle race track. Exhilarating, drug like feeling that has you itching for more.

Dropped $600 on a used MX-1 thermal eye and use it as a standalone monocular for static thermal observation in tandem with a PVS-14. A better thermal would be ideal but it still gets the job done. One eye seeing light, the other IR and then tossing it into a pocket for movement. Very good at spotting critters out to 100-200m.

I'm very analytic when these types of subjects are brought up and I believe brass was so evenly biased he deserves an applause.

My personal opinion: get a squared away mono setup and even thermal and then invest into another mono to bridge together with the other one. Gives you the option to separate the two when with a friend and have 2 people under nods

I just got into night vision picked up two gen 3 green phosphorus pvs14’s with purple filters. With the bridge I got I can flip a monocular out of the way if needed. Set up my scar16 and mk18 as goonin guns and I’m so stoked super power unlocked. Met some local homies with nods and have been doing night shoots at least once and sometimes twice a month.

What I’m hearing in this video is that you should have one of each. I also appreciated the Palpatine reference.

I’ve been preaching this to anybody who asks and people just talk to me like I don’t know anything about night vision. Nice to know I’m not completely insane

Spent my entire career with googles. Just used to running them from my job. Love your videos.

This was absolute the greatest video. Thank you for this!

Well said. My wife and I make approx $125k each per yr in SC. So $250k per yr with zero debt and a 3k per month 15 yr mortgage. No other debt. And I still can't afford dual tubes while maxing out my retirement and IRA. Financial responsibility it key. It's just a hobby guys.

I wore PVS-14s in Iraq back in 06-07. I was a 11B in 1-325 AIR. 75% of our missions were night ops. I got accustomed to them rather quickly. I damned made sure my PEQ-2 was always bore sighted lol.

I still prefer my rnvgs over my pvs14 I used in the Marines. Everything I buy now is for quality and quality of life on top. I still agree with your points on why the pvs14 has its pros over DT tho. I still plan on getting a pvs14.

I really enjoyed the dog bit at the end. Very relaxing to see a good girl getting a good pet by the fire.

A year late to the discussion, but after night-driving road-width vehicles along narrow, muddy trails built for kei trucks and the toyota hilux, I think that I'd be ok with monos if I ever choose to buy my own. Didn't even have white-phoshor. I wonder what it would be like to do mono night-driving with really nice, white-phosphor vision. I also remember doing a night range with 14s, and weapon-mounted LAMs are just straight cheating even without depth perception. I felt zero need for duals in the moment when I could just beam the burned out cars down range. Super slick. The weight and form factor is definitely another thing. It's nice that I can throw the whole thing with the J-arm attached into a nods pouch with some extra tidbits without worrying about space. Batteries also out-lasted the other dudes with duals on the longer drives. The only thing that I believe I would still upgrade would be the mount. The stock PVS14 J-arm is kind of trash. The Norotos hyper mount looks like the real move.

Given I am too poor to afford even a single tube, I can't agree more!

Ah Yes! Brass Facts, the Hoplopheil's long lost calm and polite cousin, and we all love him.

Ill get a pvs14 one of these days right now not a super big priority trying to get a better car / apartment/ better helmet /plate carrier are first. I appreciate the video regardless as i was unsure as to the differences between the two setups.

I run exclusively a single tube. Mostly because having one eye night adjusted, once you get used to it, is invaluable. I like having more than a 30° field of view lol

This is excellent analysis. I learned this firsthand by using a work PVS14 on my non-dom eye, both eyes open. Passive aiming is possible with RDS dialed all the way down (not NV). Mono is the way to go for me.

Being able to see how dark something is to the human eye is a great consideration, thank you for this video

I'd love to hear what you think about AGM night vision. Price is always a factor and $2600 is a lot easier to save up for than $4000. Hop had a generally positive review of them, understanding there are some limitations to them.

I've always thought of NV as a 3 step, maybe 4 step, process. First, you get a good pvs 14. Use it, get comfy with it. Second, get a thermal monocular. Could be a rifle mounted scope in front of your day optic. It could be a handheld or helmet mounted unit. Third, after you have used the above for a while, then you get a nice set of 31s. Keep the 14 as a backup/ loaner. Fourth, if you have the extra dough laying around, then get quads. Sell the 31s and spend pretty much double(or mouse) on the quads. Are they crazy pricey? Yeah, but if you can comfortably afford to drop 12-20k on duals, then you should be able to afford 40k on GPNVGs. If you can't comfortably afford duals, then don't buy them and don't even consider quads. I personally don't mind using one tube. I currently use one L3 14 on a dual bridge with a trijicon thermal. It was more than even the best 31s. So personally, I'm just gonna skip duals and go straight to quads in a couple years.

I started out with a 14 and it was great, neatest thing I had ever used at the time. I moved to dual tubes and it's definitely no comparison. Driving with a 14 was doable but not fun. Driving with duals is a Cakewalk. Sure the fov doesn't change but man it feels like it does.

I have a monocular, the reason is size. I can pack it into a very small case that takes up almost no space. Couple that with a knockoff night cap (I refuse to shell out the cost for a real nightcap I can't even get in the color I want) and a good quality rhino arm and you have a setup that takes up almost no pack space.

Me, thoughtfully pondering the pros and cons of two things I cannot afford

With a monocular, You can go grey, You can bridge them when the second is affordable and You can bridge a thermal with it.

Getting a PVS-14 and a Jerry C5 to clip onto it, gonna rock.

This was unbelievably helpful. Thank you!

15:24 you can tell your dog really loves you by that look she gives.

My decision making process is a lot simpler. By the time I ever scrape enough together to get into the NV game a 14 will probably be around 900-1000 because everything will be like "Gen 6" or something.

What if I have one eye?

15 11B YRs AN/PVS 14… the civi set I paid the iron price for exceed expectations. Your mileage may vary, but you get what you pay for. L3 phos tube. Depth set and optic set is key. QOL depends on mission set

I'll take dual monos with a pano bridge. The weight isn't that bad and the benefits are amazing.... they did just come out with the RPNVG and those are bad ass

Dual tubes can be nice, but I'd really would focus on the counterweight and just making sure I've got a good kit to work with whatever night vision I have. Been a while since I've actually used helmet mounted night vision, but I do distinctly remember the literal headaches. Personally the most important part of any night vision kit would be the counterweight.

Glad this helps reinforce my reasoning to not get a 2nd tube… Been enjoying my PVS-14 and definitely want to invest into a COTI thermal clip on in the near future… If I can ever afford it 😂

Great points! Great video. Thx for taking the time to make this.

look, ive had a pvs 14 monocular for 2 years, and the one thing ive always had trouble with is depth perception and the 2 different light levels in my eyes has always been difficult. I purchased a second tube a month ago and its so much more comfortable for me to wear/walk. shooting with single tube was fine. it was always maneuvering that gave me trouble. just my logic for buying dual.

Thank you Brass!

I already own a gen 3 GP 14 and I’m honestly here for the validation that I don’t need duals and should save the money BUT THE TEMPTATION

I like my pvs14 because I can switch it from a helmet, to a Crye Nightcap, to just handheld.

Bridged WP PVS-14 and Thermal (in my case FLIR Breach) is a hell of a lot more useful in the woods than dual tubes. There I said it

Thank you sir. I've watched several of your videos (among many of your cohorts and the like) and have decided you are super duper. Much information. Much learning.

I like having one eye night adapted at all times. I used light as a weapon against guys in training who were over-relying on their NVGs, and it worked. Could wipe out a whole squad just by manipulating light, and giving me the advantage even if for just a few seconds. Seconds enough to wipe them out.

You also can buy one PVS 14 now and then when you save the money up buy another one later and make your own dual tubes setup. or you also have the option of running a PVS 14 on one eye in running full thermal on your less dominant eye

It's individual preference. With my eyes and brain, duals are the way.

We came to see Hop in the background of videos. We stayed for the puppy.

Duels might be the thing if your driving a truck full time in the dark. I would rather keep 1 eye tuned for darkness and be able to still function under all conditions. PVS-14 allows more flexibility. Same tactics on why pirates wear an eye patch when they go topside of the boat, when they go back inside they still can see with the eye under the patch.

There is this contraption that allows one to mount two monos in a dual configuration, and in some use cases, this is better than a fixed DT setup.

I think an extra 14 and a GoPro, all mounted on an fpv drone would be money well spent vs DTs but that’s just me. Buy a drone before you buy dual tubes though that’s for sure. It does more for situational awareness than nods in a lot of cases and is a second super power we can now have for a reasonable price: the ability to fly and see like a bird!

The pollen gang has some real shooters this year, they out here gettin everybody

Me over here with 2800 fom L3 WP DTNVSs. Bought once and cried once. While these are 🔥. I wish I had got a PVS14 3 years ago. I would highly recommend on investing in a quality helmet, high quality helmet mounted eyepro, and a plan of how you are going to use it, before you even bother with buying the NV unit itself. That being said I would still keep my dual tubes. No ragrets.

Late, but one overlooked advantage of mono-tubes is when driving or trying to write in the dark. Your uncovered eye's natural nightvision and ability to focus automatically means you can more easily see and interact with close distance objects (granted, variable focus between the tubes on a dual setup can come close to this, but then you lose all natural nightvision).

I’ve found wearing 2 tubes higher on your face and looking under your nods for close work gives you the same functionality as having one eye available. Example:Shooting a 50 under nods then using my lower peripherals to reload

I was just talking about this exact thing. I have a PVS 14. I want duals for the quality of life. So much of gear-queerness is pushing through the point of diminishing return for “higher quality” stuff that doesn’t necessarily change capability. The jump from natural night vision to night vision aided by a monocular tube is massive, that near double price tag for duals doesn’t add double in terms of added functionality. As dudes, we waste much on little gain. We could be well served with a dose of just making it work and training with our current stuff until you plateau.

Great vid. When I served I went for the duals once, hated it, and went back to the mono. I’d actually wear it on my left eye. Use my IR laser at night in low light, but if I went into an environment whether it became bright enough outside our we went in to a light building. My right eye didn’t have that nvg fatigue

I'm prioritizing buying a PVS 14 and a good quality hand held thermal first. PVS 31s will have to wait.

came for the NV, stayed for the doggo