Black sun dark engine or PBiR-X
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norma 308
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I love the Solaris srx personally
1985
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I use the ATN X sight 4K pro.
1985
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Thank you
Pays to ask if they can be returned if not suitable as when I was looking to up grade i found you can get to good and suffered white outs which made my night vision un usable.Finally settled on a PBIR-X which is about the best I could get on my digisight LRF N970.
woody
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I use the pbir only because of the reviews on you tube, however there is an issue, I had the rifle between my knees when sat in passenger seat of truck and had a pain in my eye then realised the IR was still on, it's just a button on the end not a switch as such for on and off, it's hard to tell if it's on or off. I now have a routine of turning the IR off first whilst the NV is on before turning that off last, bloody dangerous.
1985
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Is that the 950nm if so what range u getting? Thanks.
woody
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Pbir- x with the Drone, 500 metres.
I use a SRX on my 4K Pro. I also have a Black Sun Ruby IR that I use on my Photon but it doesn't have the legs and the beam is not clean enough for my ATN
The X sight has a 4k sensor that gives excellent daylight image quality, but it is very insensitive, so at at night it needs a LOT of IR to produce a decent image.
LED illuminators simply don't produce enough IR for the ATN to produce a decent image at anything other than pretty short ranges.
You need a vcsel based illuminator such as:
Sirius XTL from IRlightbuilds (aka PBIR-L)
Solaris SRX from Blackwood Outdoors
Blacksun dark engine from the Nightvision store
Night Sabre Wraith from Ludicrous Lumens
Any of these 4 will give you a decent image at much greater range than you'll get with ANY led based illuminator.
Cheers
Bruce
LED illuminators simply don't produce enough IR for the ATN to produce a decent image at anything other than pretty short ranges.
You need a vcsel based illuminator such as:
Sirius XTL from IRlightbuilds (aka PBIR-L)
Solaris SRX from Blackwood Outdoors
Blacksun dark engine from the Nightvision store
Night Sabre Wraith from Ludicrous Lumens
Any of these 4 will give you a decent image at much greater range than you'll get with ANY led based illuminator.
Cheers
Bruce
Roedeer 1962
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I spoke to Paul Baker the other day and he recomended the PBIR L for the ATN X Sight !!!!!!
1985
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Currently I’ve been using a shitty old T20 illuminator that’s about 8 years old with my atn night sight..... shooting foxes out to 200yds no problem.... I have purchased a black sun dark engine.... I will let u guys know how I get on but I don’t see any problems.... thanks for all the help guys!!!! I will keep u all informed!!
Crosstjeck
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I got the Pulsar Digex and tried to use my Black Sun Dark Engine (from use with my old Pard007) and it white outs the unit. Would any of the suggested IRs above work better with it, ie the Solaris?
No, the Digex is too sensitive for most laser based IRs
You'd be better going back to an LED based IR to get any sort of decent performance out of a Digex
Cheers
Bruce
I've been using a Night Sabre Wraith from Ludicrous Lumens for some time - which I love, but they've just sent me an uprated front end, so I'll be keen to see how much that improves matters! Last night I was testing their Mk3 Vulpine add-on NV, which was superb.
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