Night Vision Dbal A3 Identification

[Rerun7]

Tried googling this but without much luck. Local person is selling a Dbal A3 but I noticed the adjustments near the illuminator are different than the ones for the lasers. And no diffuser on the illuminator, just a cap.

Can anyone help identify if this is a fake or an older version, etc? I’ve seen other pics online like this but no details that I could find.

 

[CoryT]

Fake, pretty bad one at that.

 

[bill_van]

Agree, it's a fake!

 

[WhereNow&How]

Not necessarily a fake. Some of the very first Dbal A3's did not have x and y adjustment on the illuminator.

This appears to be a legit unit from the limited picture and from the barrel on the illuminator it is a civilian version.

Take a bunch of pictures of all angle of the unit and I should be able to tell you more.

However, I would not want one (especially a civilian version) where you could not adjust the x & y of the illuminator to center the illuminator circle with your IR pointer.

And that is coming from someone who loves the Dbal A3 especially for its Overide feature.

 

[WhereNow&How]

Laser Devices Inc (then Steiner) did a lot of versions and changes to both the Dbal A2 and A3's so you can see a few strange iterations of these out there. There is a full power version Dbal A3 that even had a setting for low power IR point with high power Illuminator which produces a perfect fine aiming IR pointer superimposed in a high IR illuminator beam.

On the normal-standard 50/50/50 FP models of the A3 you have to put a Neutral Density Filter on the IR Point to tame it down by 80% while using the high setting to get the full power use out of the illuminator. Otherwise the 50 mW Pointer just blooms out to big.