Cheap Thermal/Night Vision is NOT 'Just a Toy'

#NightVision #Thermal
Link to purchase an NVG10 digital night vision monocular setup for yourself (make sure to first watch my review video)-
In this video, you will experience quite a lot of POV-style night vision and thermal footage, all from devices that cost roughly $400.
Units in this price range are often considered to be nothing more than "just toys". I don't happen to agree with this and will describe serious scenarios where these night optics would be beneficial. What is your opinion on this matter?
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[UrbanSurvivor]

This was a great video! So cool that you stumbled across a hunter that was some really cool footage!

[shayne]

I have the NVG10, a Pard "Clip On" mounted on a spotting scope and a HikMicro LE10 pro handheld thermal, I have found them very useful for various things in my semi rural area upto and including checking the property for a missing person last night..local law enforcement was very surprised that someone had a capability they only have on helicopters/drones..

[christophergreen]

About that purple/red light:

There are two main frequencies for IR lights, 940 and 850 (I forget the measurement, I think nanometers). The 850 is the closer wavelength to what devices are optimized for so it looks much brighter in night vision devices but the emitter has a purple hue like you showed because it is a close-ish frequency to visible light. 940 Is a more faint light both in the visible light at the emitter and casts so little light in NODS I can barely tell it is on for nearly half of the moon cycle (with a gen3 PVS-14, I haven't tested it with my digital).
The best use for 940 is sneaking in heavy cover where you need supplemental light but don't want a bright IR with visible purple to help others see you.

[Slorida]

So I've got an nvg 10 unit and I stumbled across a really useful hack.. poking a hole in the lens cover creates an auto focus feature not standard on the factory unit.. you loose some image quality but for an automatic focus, it's well worth it.. cool video man..

[starsandnightvision]

The NVG10 is great for stargazing and capturing flying objects. I love it.

[luciankristov]

I have the NVG10 and i love the thing. Works pretty good

[bushwhackedonvhs]

Yes, I say this so much
as a partisan you will almost never be able to engage in night fighting on equal footing with a modern military. The strength of partisan and guerilla forces is knowledge of local terrain and being able to pick the when and where of an encounter. Something like an NVG10 may not be good for fighting but it might allow you to maneuver under cover of darkness to set up a position from which you can set up ambushes and stuff which would be far harder to avoid detection doing with white light

[melvinhowell]

Great video, and I agree 100%. Bought the NVG-10 a couple of months ago from Good Nite Gear, and am very happy with it. Kyle at Good Nite Gear helped to confirm that the NVG-10 does indeed have an IP66 rating, which makes it extremely useful, even in inclement weather. Being an old, slow speed non-military guy myself, I envision using the NVG-10 pretty much as you described, with a few nuances in contested environments, where adversaries may or may not, depending on their status (military, gangs, small groups of thugs or individuals) have night vision capabilities: LP/OP either along a perimeter or in depth; at a roadblock/checkpoint where one is stationary, already exposed to some extent anyway, and still needs the ability to see possible encroachment in partial or total darkness; Interior checkpoints in blackout conditions where you might be hiding from hostiles moving through your territory, building or block; surveillance of potential hostiles in their territory from concealment. Some of these might include the use of independent IR illuminators, where you would not have to use the unit's IR to see opponents...and, don't forget that in some situations (total blackout) my understanding is that even the best NOD's may need to use their own illuminators (I may be wrong about that) which means that you might see them coming before they even know you are there...Thanks for the great video!

[christophergreen]

Did you use the thermal add on for a phone for the possum footage?

Cheap thermal with limited range has let me see what the dog barked at when I saw heat in a cedar, it still took me a few minutes to find the raccoon with a flashlight. He was only 7 feet up, too. Raccoons are well camouflaged for conifers.

Tactically, some cheap night vision can be used to scan for active IR, which someone might use in heavy cover. Or set up a $10 ebay IR flashlight somewhere you are not observing from to light an area for observation with the cheap NODS and act as a decoy for any hostiles that see it.

[wesleymagill]

thanks for making these videos. i'm planning on getting the NVG10 and the kit to turn it 90 degrees, change the lens to the wide angle, and get the filter for the IR light. going to use it mostly for hunting, but also anything else that comes up.

[aaronnataren]

Ok.

So im gonna receive mine in 4 days.

Ill be back to let you know how they do with either CQB, and outdoor shooting. I also purchased the special mount for a tactical helmet, im not gonna use the flimsy one that it comes with.

Ill use the Techbender 3D printed mount, and see how it goes.

I hate how everyone just films outdoor, but they never test it being used for shooting.

A friend of mine showed me that it doesn't glitch as much as these guys show in their videos, and TBH folks, its a cheap option to try it and see for yourselves.

[MrGriffo]

I would definitely have used these when I was doing recon and surveillance patrols, if I could afford the price. looks about the same quality as the ones the army issued us with back then.

[dalewoods]

In the military they call that three d's distance direction description

[dangubas]

Really nice video 😊 since thermal is also a digital camera, could you use digital nvg as a processing unit and screen to pair both cameras in one?? As much as I know about it, thermal plug in picture quality depends on phone you're using

[SpecOpsGear]

How sensitive is the nvg10 compared to sionyx aurora or aionyx opsin?

[My_Alchemical_Romance]

What’s your take on the wide FOV mod for the nvg10?


Also, the commonly paired with, 90 degree mount.



Would you recommend gen 1tube compared to this, if it’s 100 cheaper?

[mentalcog]

I wonder, .. do any of these give off an IR signature that can bee seen easily by another with thermal or IR, ... giving your position away?
Kind of important to know.

[beefstew]

2:07 thats a funny way to say post apocalypse

[SCORN]

Hey DDD, I defiantly think you on the right track when it comes to the advantages of T2Pro.
I'm looking to buy the T2Pro and use it with a Gimbal, then attach it below a Fixed wing Glider 2.5 - 3metre wing span.
Due to the 13Degree angle of view (Some say 19 Degrees) of the T2Pro, the RC glider will need to be 300 meters to 500 meters in altitude to get 67m long side to 112m long side view of the ground.

Perhaps you can assist with some tests.

1. Will the T2Pro run as a normal webcam on a windows PC. (I believe that it will run on the camera app). This means that I could import the video feed into a program like python or processing3 which allows you to overlay the thermal image (with some ghosting) over a larger low light camera image. In this way I'll have a fairly large image for low light with a Thermal image in the Centre. I could also enhance the thermal image resolution with an overlay, so long is I get the correct focal length and size the images correctly.

2. Due to the camera being on a drone, I would like to see if I can get it to work with a Raspberry Pi4. If its a USB / Web cam it should be detectable on the Raspberry Pi4.
I would then attempt to run something like discord and stream the Thermal Camera image over discord. This will allow multiple personal on the ground to view the thermal images in real time.
(The issue is that while discord may work on the Pi4, The "lite" version might not stream the camera).

3. The alternative is to use an fairly good android TV stick (Most are not up to streaming). But If it registers the thermal Camera in native black hot, then it should be able to stream with the discord app. (You should be able to test this on your phone, However the TV stick may allow for normal USB protocol, your phone may require an app and the app will not have stream capability)

Anyway you could plug the T2Pro into your Windows PC and let me know if it shows black hot on the screen.
(You also might find an inexpensive 2 Axis gimble on Ebay +-50$. If you can find a flexibly USBC cable, it will be possible to take some steady footage while walking in the forest)

4. One more test, Can the T2Pro see through thick smoke and fog?

[jimmyofthesea]

I hate all those different color pallets on thermals. I almost exclusively use white hot. If I see something warm blooded and I want to track it with the thermal I MIGHT switch to black hot. BUT all the other color pallets are just annoying.