Looking through the tacked topics, I didn’t really see anything going over small upgrades you can purchase/make to improve your experience with your NOD, better protect it, or other improvements. I’ve seen a few mentioned off and on and seen some in the research I did before buying my PVS-14, but wanted to see what else was out there.

Last night I replaced the day cap with a Butler Creek cover that I drilled a 1/8” hole in to make a refocus cap. Seemed to do the trick and I’m no longer having to worry about putting Velcro on the day cap to keep it from dangling about. I looked into the adjustable iris setups, but I’m not really sure it’s worth the effort.

What are folks doing for protecting the objective? I still throw the plastic cap back on when I’m at home, but is the a better solution that can stay with the unit?

Are there any other upgrades/ideas?

The adjustable iris with a butler creek cap and an Amazon iris is easy.  I don't really like that you have to ditch the protective screen though.

Are you talking about the sacrificial lens? I saw one YouTube walkthrough where they take the lens out of the cap and drop it into the Butler Creek cap before putting the adjustable iris in.

Put a sacrificial lens underneath your butler creek

My unit came with a LIF, so I’ve got that installed. I’m in a semi-urban area so it helps some with lights.

$60.00 and you can get roughly same results. Not enough to really notice at all and not worth the extra $440.00 when buying two. The black sharpie I just colored over the white dried crazy glue. Very easy to make. 10 min with a dremel and glue.



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Upgrading to a dovetail mount/ J-arm is definitely worth it.

Mini caribiners

Split rings 10mm

These have multiple uses once you get into NV ^

No doubt. I got a NERD type thing with the helmet, plus the two hooks that come standard on the OpsCore helmets. I also got a mohawk with it but walking 2-3 miles with everything on, I don’t feel like a counterweight is needed.