Got a friend talking to a guy about making me a set of duals. He's coming back with Photonis high gain gen 2+. I'm not as concerned with cost but I'll take a deal if it's worth it. So anyone have an opinion on these vs a good gen 3?
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Cost is estimated at 5k. I don't have a problem with that part. I got pulled in to the duals because of the price however.
I live in BFE so I'm gonna want better quality tubes it sounds like. I'm use to a single, and can even ride my dirt bike on a single without issue so I may go back to looking for one of those.
My unit is an older green gen3 and it works but a friend of mine let me play with his WP pvs14 and I want one now.
I do not. I got them many moons ago. My main thing is I've never used a 2+ tube. I've had old Russian NV stuff for fun, and this one green gen3. I've been studying posts on here to learn about NV. Me and a couple guys have been talking about going to a NV class one of the companies puts on, I think TNVC is what he said. Figured I could fiddle with some different setups and decide what I wanted. Not much for NV shops in NE Iowa from what I can see.Do you know what the specs of your current tube are?
5k, provided it's in a decent housing is pretty nice. Also, provided that the tube specs aren't shit. If they're shit, don't bother. In the grand scheme of things, spending another 1-1.5k is worth it to most end users to get tubes that they're comfortable with.
As a general rule of thumb:
30+ SNR
<1.0 EBI
<1.0 Halo
2000+ FOM.
I personally prefer quality screen cosmetics over higher specs but that's just me. I can't stand looking at blemishes.
I do not. I got them many moons ago. My main thing is I've never used a 2+ tube. I've had old Russian NV stuff for fun, and this one green gen3. I've been studying posts on here to learn about NV. Me and a couple guys have been talking about going to a NV class one of the companies puts on, I think TNVC is what he said. Figured I could fiddle with some different setups and decide what I wanted. Not much for NV shops in NE Iowa from what I can see.
MH1 from LLI is the housing with photonis high gains, 7k-ish is the total it sounds like. It was 5k with some Chinese tubes.A Photonis tube dual tube set for $5K is a steal if it's new and not in some shit housing like the Chinese Argus housing.
Photonis tubes do really well, if the OP is used to an "Older 3rd gen green" tube, he will likely be amazed with a new Photonis WP Echo. The Photonis Green tubes have higher gain also.
There was a helluva lot of propaganda against Photonis years ago by a "certain" company. We debunked a lot of their BS with videos showing Echo tubes in use down in the swamps.
At one of our NV classes where students go on a jungle lane course finding small camoflaged targets hidden in the brush, in a class of 12, 3 students that did the best were all running Photonis Echo tubes.
So it's not like they don't do well in darker environments, that's utter BS.
If you can get a new dual tube set for $5K with Echo tubes, I would jump on it.