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Uploaded by on Oct 16, 2009

a passive night vision monocular.
this device uses an image intensifier tube without any infa-red illiumation of the target object.

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  • Want to do underwater macro-videos at night. All kinds of nocturnal activities by the invertebrates we find under rocks by day.

  • @WimGrundy yes that would be interesting viewing.

    thanx for commenting

  • I'm still tweeking my night vision I built. Got a cheap gen 1 tube off ebay and having issues with the optics. But looking good. keep getting zapped from the TV flyback used to power it lol makes the kids laugh. What optics have you got? I want to use mine for star gazing, but at the moment we have 24 hour sun so kinda not a good idea to use until winter

  • @data790 its all standard from the factory that made the lenses.

    in my opinion they are crap-the abberation at the edges of the field of view is so bad its like looking thru the bottom of a coke bottle.

    maybe you could try picking up an old refractor telescope off ebay or garage sale and use the lenses from it.

    have you got a iris in front of the tube to protect it from too much light?

  • Nice little thing. Tight packed and simply built inside too. I can see the Orion constellation when you directed it toward the night sky. Is there a way to set focus of the incoming IR light? (or maybe you just held the camera too close to its screen? LOL)

  • it has an iris system that gets smaller and bigger depending on how much light enters the tube-protects it from over exposing the intensifier which could damage it-i think the optics arent that good and holding my cam to eyepiece was a difficult match up-so put that all together and its pretty crappy end result on the video-i have lenses that i am sure would give less abberation on the outer edges of the field of view-but i wasnt going to attempt changing it-thought it best not mess with it

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  • this night vision is old he was used by policeman in afghanistan war time

  • I can see more with my own eyes in the dark...

  • @m3sca1 Yeah it has an iris. Managed to pull some lenses together from a pair of binoculars. Still not that good but may have to think about a better circuit to power it. I have this large box as a power supply with 8 x AA batteries. Really bad as this is no way near the amps required and prevents the tube from glowing bright. Got a newer circuit from a patent so will try that. But I shall try some sales for better optics, cheers.

  • i have one of these but i dropped it and broke the paper thin glass photocathode, im hoping i can use a military surplus image intensifier instead, but it wont be the same

  • you can its gen 0 very low quality image.anyway nice

  • this is a poor russian gen1 tube. "JUNK"

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