All you need to do is cut the cable to the desired length, and re-terminate the cable on the end where the RCA plug was -- and you're done. Inside the cable, the wires are no different than what is typically used in other electronics to transmit data and power.
For imaging, I've set up the T60 to stream it's video output over IP forwarding to the Internet (the IT designs for this are in a prior post). From the Internet, any wireless computing device using IP can receive the streaming image from the T60. In a previous example, I have the T60 output streaming over wireless comms to an iPad.
I've configured the same to work with an iPhone connected via KAC mount interfaced to M1913 Picatinny rail on the rifle. Custom software allows me to have ballistic calculator and a window with the streaming image from the T60, showing on the iPhone at the same time. Overlaying similar image feeds, at unity, from PVS-22 gives dual-band (fusion) imaging as good or better than any ADUNS, but for only a fraction of the cost.
Feeding the fused, dual-band image back to any optic with video overlay capability (such as SENVG) or video projection capability (such as Google glasses) creates a whole new level of user empowerment, especially when the aiming reticule is superimposed.
With these new mash-up approaches, the only things expected from the sensor device itself are the highest sensitivity, capture rate, and resolution possible. All the bells and whistles stuff like color palettes can be added later in the processing stream, via software, at much lower cost than building it into the sensor hardware or at the firmware level.
For me and the work I do, the future (mash-up imaging) is already here. Therefore, unless a "new" portable thermal sensor can at least double the existing resolution, which means 4x the pixel density covering the same FOV, I'm not particularly moved or impressed with it as being much of a technological advancement. This statement is not directed at you but is made in the context of other discussion in this thread about the cost-benefits of upgrading one's clip-on thermal weapons imager within the same class of intended use (example: small arms, assault rifle).
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