Everything You Need To Know About Night Vision - Part 2 of 2 

Nvg’s don’t have to be all running and gunning either. I’m old, busted up, retired military and get the most joy out of my personal nvg’s night hiking with my dog and stargazing. Counting meteorites burning in and satellites flying over is very therapeutic :)

Lucas: "Because this is an hour and a half video that most of you don't want to sit though......" Me: *cracks fingers and pours coffee"

For those of you that are questioning buying from trex or really just want NVG's now... I pressed the "submit" button for payment at 10pm and got a phone call at 9am the next morning with Justin. He picked out my PVS14 and read me the specs and asked if i was okay with it. Not only was i okay with the specs he told me exactly what was going to happen next and then sent me an email with the spec sheet along with a picture through the tube about an hour later. Along with that, i received a tracking number a few hours after the spec sheet/tube picture with shipping info that was NEXT DAY shipping. Best experience i've had with customer service anywhere. Currently typing this while sitting in my backyard looking at the stars through my PVS14 lol

I love how all of Lucas's videos have a cod mission brief vibe to it.

Regardless of whatever NV you get. There are some ways to buy them. 1. Sell your car. 2.Sell your motorcycle. 3.Sell your organs i.e. kidney, testicle, etc. 4.Sell one of your kids.

#1 thing you need to know: do not pay $3800 for a pvs14 unless its some crazy L3 filmless unit

Scott got me into a set of panos. Dude is the best in the game. Hands down!

Very informative, appreciate all the night vision content as a new PVS14 owner.

Great come back after part1. This is one of the best NVG series on RU-vid. Thank you!

Great work lads. Lots of work ahead of you. Changing expectations in an industry as niche as this is pretty hard to do.

Scott is a gem in the night vision business! He not only builds/sells night vision but is an avid user and a dang good shooter!

Prepper rant incoming! If you’re buying NVGs and you don’t have all your debt paid off and $5000 in savings over and above the money for your kit, then you’re probably going to fail long before it comes time to use your tubes. Barring the most unlikely events, any kind of collapse will take place over months or years. If you have nods and don’t have savings, then you’re going to wind up homeless and dead long before you get to use your nods. Thing only get worse from here boys. Pay off your debt. Save up some money. Then buy gear. If you have no gear right now, spend $2000 on a cheap kit with a rifle, magnified optic, light, and sling, and the ability to carry sustainment items. Water, rifle, ammo, food, survival items. In that order. Make sure you have 30-90 days worth of money in your savings account. Make sure you have enough food and water for 30 days minimum. Make sure you have 1000 rounds of ammo per weapon per caliber. Make sure you have a way to carry that ammunition. Then worry about nods.

TNVC has a sale right now $4000 for a pvs14 a free helmet free mount free laser free ir strobe and free J arm. And it’s an elbit mil spec tube… that you can hand select

I’ve bought stuff from Scott at Noctournality a few times. Very happy with the service and quality.

I definitely prefer the longer, more detailed, thorough videos, whether they are technical or interview in nature.I watch and listen to them while I'm working on something else during the day or evening. If while doing that the video gets into something that requires more intense concentration fora few minutes, I'll switch my concentration to the video. I might even replay that portion 2 or 3 times. Also, I frequently watch or listen to the same video multiple times. Sometimes I download videos for my library. You never know when these videos will be removed from RU-vid. It takes a huge amount of wasted time to just sort through channels or RU-vid in general to pick the next video to watch. For that reason, For topics of serious or technical or instructional nature (for example, equipment reviews) I don't like video Shorts or other shorter videos or videos in which the maker rushes through the presentation or talks fast to make the video as short as possible. For most videos I have to set the playback speed to 75% in order to keep from having to rewind and replay portions. I do like to watch the comical entertaining video Shorts while chilling.

I just got the 3d files email and I would like to Thank Trex arms and every employee there personally for being one of the coolest companies out there. What your doing is really making a difference in the industry and sholting culture away from fuddery. I appreciate the he'll out of it. Thank you.

Top tier content, Lucas. Thankful for you and the people at Nocturnality for this video

Thanks. I had to review it few times going back time after time due to density of real info packed into this monologue. Unfortunately it's not usual nowadays. Thanks once again.

Excellent video, so much information 👍 All coming videos sounds important too. Thanks!

I got a green elbit with crazy stats for 2300 because it has a blem on the bottom left. If you’re not trying to spend 4 grand look at blem units.

A true masterclass. Anyone looking to spend $1000s of dollars on NVG would be doing a disservice skipping this video.

Just got my first PVS14 yesterday and I'm glad I made the right choice based on some of the information here

I spent months of research and didn't know many things in the video. Thanks for breaking this down in one place.

The biggest benefit you guys bring to the industry is education. I appreciate information and education based on logic and the experience you guys bring.

There aren’t many companies that will bring this level of information to regular citizens. I’m grateful for that and for you listening to your audience.

Great timing for the video. I was just wondering about getting into night vision

Lucas let the hater’s hate, you are one of the only A2 companies that really cares about absolutely sharing good information to all, thank you.

You guys have put out some pretty solid nightvision content. Do you have any plans on putting out info on thermals in the future?

Thanks for this video gentleman, very informative

Looking forward to your other videos on night vision!!

Excellent video!. Thank you T.REX. and thank you Scott.

Thank you for the content

What I was hoping for at some point was a simple chart or discussion of the primary tubes that are actually available that tells us at different price ranges what the important specs are of those tubes or brands that use those tubes. A chart showing commercially available goggles with their specs that you've spent so much time explaining to us (and I do appreciate that) would be very useful, and then you might say something like, "Note that these XYZ goggles are better in almost every aspect than other NVG's at that price range, but they do lack a couple of nice features like infinity focus and aren't quite as good in a very high light environment because of ...".

Appreciate this, keep it up guys

The opening of this should have been "we screwed up the previous video" not "here's what you misunderstood".

Great info, thank you!

You just want an SNR over 30 a lp/mm at 72 or under but over 64. And a gain over 60,000. At that point they are all basically the same. a high SNR does help allot in very dark areas (cloud cover+tree cover/indoors) . But will make little difference under starlight.

Ok skip part 1!!! It is all here! Great video!!!

This helps me as a new NVG user. Bought a photonis echo WP pvs-14 from Steele industries. Love it so far

Glad to have a comprehensive "break down" vid on specs and how to choose a device but I will say a lot of people are really pissed off on how T Rex arms is marketing their night vision devices, one point being made is how expensive the nods are t rex is selling with no hand picked options or spec sheets. Despite what the vid says, which from a business perspective is coming from someone trying to sell the products on t rex arms site, people do want to see spec sheets and know what they are buying. I know Lucas said a rep calls the customer prior to the order being processed so I am unsure if that's when a spec sheet is gone over but I know I personally did a lot of research before buying my first duals from tnvc and talked with them both via email and phone calls.

Difference between filmless and thinfilmed? Didn’t catch it in the video, apologies if it was there.

Well done!

This image intensifier business is more like the chip business (as in silicon lottery) then I realized.

Honestly this video destroys 80% of Sam Houston's paywall business

Should of had Isaac on this!

as a PC gamer. the tube grades remind me a lot of how CPUs are made. There is a good bit of chemistry that goes into making a tube. It's a lot like baking a brownie. The corner pieces are the best. even though the rest of the brownie is still good. Like a i9 chip after testing gets listed as an i7 because it is not stable or a few of the cores are bad.

The ultimate Chad NV gear is a comically large mag light used to blind/bludgeon nerds with panos

Wow exceptional resources and work. And same voice as Rob Skiba, identical

Cool video. All I know about night vision is that my camera uses infared light to see in low light.

So just buy Gen 3 got it

Im sure this guy's knows a everything about night vision, but his performance is a bit confusing imo. He often talks in circles, repeats things with no real information value, says contradictory things often then sometimes talks about something really specific in great detail but with no context. I feel like that even if it doesn't create more confusion it doesn't really do a great job helping people understand night vision better. I'm not trying to be hostile. He's clearly not used to this kind of act of explaining things in this specific manner. It would probably be benefitial to prepare a more thorough script and stick to that. It would help a lot to make sure the actual information reaches the viewers. It would also do wonders for the pacing and would help to avoid talkint in circles.

Any plans to make a Crye Nightcap/skullcrusher competitor from nylon and tegris, for an easy to transport head mounted system for your night vision?

Dakota Meyers pops a blood vessel every time Lucas posts a video like this. 😅

Arc panning bridge allows articulated pods and panning in one unit, it also allows switching between bino and panning modes without having to adjust IPD at all. I have one and its absolutely amazing, anyone interested in duals should look into it

I'm not new to NVG, but video was very helpful. I'm not a pro but I have years of experience in as a Leo

is a thermal monocular a suitable effective nv alternative on a budget say vs an nvg monocular like a pvs14 ?

Is this revision 6.0? How many times with NV be covered? I’ll hold off until next week’s NV all you need to know video.

What does it mean that manufacturers rewire tubes for manual gain? All manufacturers of tubes that I'm aware of, deliver manual gain variants with the connections ready from factory. The only one that I'm not sure about is hanamatsu.

Is EBI responsible for issues with depth perception? Cause I would notice while in service there would be times where my depth perception would just go out the window because I couldn’t tell where certain objects started or end. I understand inherently that will happen but does that make it worse?

I love my mystery meat photonis Echo WP pvs14 I aquired on Tac swap for $1200 + glock 19X trade. no spec sheet but holy crap is it crispy, literally no detectable blems. I got it from a country bumpkin out in rural Texas who had no clue about the nuances of night vision. It works as well as I would ever need as far as lighting conditions go, and I now use it with a sidekick 640 in a dual band setup. I dont think I will ever go for a "super nice" 24UM L3 tube because if I ever encounter extremely adverse lighting conditions (dark AF, pitch black) I will be relying on either my IR illuminator or the thermal image which could care less about lighting conditions.

First 15 mins in summary: all the numbers don’t matter. There I saved you 15mins of you time.

so the data sheet numbers dont matter but the best tubes are the ones with the best numbers?

Can you do a review on the “fightlight mcr”?

Very good information but somewhat disappointed that shelf-life and tube age was not addressed.

While on the subject of night vision. How about a white light movement tutorial? How does one run on rough ground at night and shoot carboard (that could shoot back) using visible lights?

More vids=happier me

The company or brand of clothing you wear sometimes with the OP logo i know its hiking gear or rei stuff i just can't figure out what the exact brand is if you could tell me i would greatly appreciate it i know they make high quality stuff that looks like good clothes and wanna checkout more of their stuff

Are they still making good gen 3 tubes for pvs7?

My personal feeling is that the dominance of photomultiplier tube based solutions will eventually get displaced by products based on high-sensitivity visible light camera sensors (which can also pick up enough IR to be useful with IR-based targeting). Lots of progress in that domain. This will also allow more meaningful integration with other accessories - providing data overlays, thermal overlays etc. By the time that the component costs are reshuffled, the system costs should still be somewhat reduced. Though, the simplicity and ruggedness of photomultiplier tube solutions will keep them popular for government customers for a long time.

Which one works best with those of us with glasses?

😊For Vets/Fire/EMS, anyway, Optics Planet has deep discounts. I got an Armasight MNVD-51, (wanted wider detection, and don't mind fisheye) Gen 3 Ghost White, Pinnacle tube, 2376 FOM, with goodies for $3170 out the door, which was the best tube I could buy for that money with a war on in Europe. No Gen 3 tubes cheap anymore.😢

I feel like NV’s are great for movement at night but the new meta is definitely thermal just ask the Russian v Ukraine conflict.

your prices are outrageous

What video is this from?

The NVG market went well for you lol 😂

Video is 12 minutes old but I’m looking for the comment that explains the full hour and a half video lol

Oh no Lucas there was no confusion about part 1, it contained 0 content.

You guys should sell helmets on your site, I think it would be a nice addition beings that you have night vision which is a helmet mod.

Good morning "Luke"💞💞💞

If the average viewer of this channel can't sit and watch and learn for an hour...there is something wrong

Psa dagger video?

Queer Eye for the NODS guy 😉

👍

hi lucas what is your fav rifle?

I got my tubes for 330 each off a guy on facebook, theyre barely blemmed too 😅

8 grand for Elbit Rnvgs? Cmon Lucas.

I guess any other electrical components attached to the tube will affect its rating.

All I needed to know is night vision is expensive so I'll never have it.

Im just a poor boy....LOL. I have a 2nd generation ATN IR scope and an entry level ATN thermal. Love them though. I am not at the level of any of the gear on your bench.

US night vision pulled a tube for me with the specs I wanted. Very kind of them. I think it is a big part of the fun to look for the specs you like. Just saying they all don't matter very much is sort of misleading from a guy selling you gear.

Get you a cheap used 14 gp for your first unit.

Somebody make a housing with Auto focus like on a professional camera

Anyone else getting nothing but Harry Potter results when you google search this guy 😂

I wish I would have known before my uncle spent my money on some random website to get me a pair of nvg. He spent over 3 k on superior tactical and I ended up with a gen 2 wp with hella burns of some sort in the center of the tube with only one small black blem I asked them about it and they said it passed inspection so I sent it to any mother company and they told me I was screwed over and given a really old and bad tube And it should have never passed and they will not get ahold of me or anything and said sorry our warranty will not cover it. I didn’t notice it for the first two weeks until my dad pointed it out when I showed him them he looked at a wall and pointed it out with the ir light on. So now I’m out and have a junk pair of nvgs and I’m super upset. So STAY AWAY FROM SUPERIOR TACTICAL.

1:15 min video on night vision with no discussion of mounts? I never get that hour back....

This guy just talks about what his about to talk about

Neat 😎

Save money and build a PVS-69!

How many times can you say diminishing returns?

Get the best you can afford and wear them for endless hours to acclimate in all scenarios. End of story. Btw I’m a super secret agent.