I have seen some posts about people wanting to run a PVS-14 and an IR Patrol simultaneously. My response up until now has been that the eye relief difference is too great between the 2 units and that it's not easy to do.

Well, it turns out there is a fix which brings the eye relief on both units to within 1/8 of an inch of eachother using the Wilcox Dual Bridge and either the Wilcox J-Arm or the IC J-Arm pictured below.


Before fix



After fix

Yes that's what I meant. As the dual bridge comes from the factory the IR Patrol sits much closer than the PVS-14. The IR PATROL sits almost too close for my liking with the G24 and M24 or the G24 and a bridge arm(half of wilcox dual bridge), or the same setup but with the AKA2, TATM, or RHNO 2 D, or pretty much every standard mount out there. All of them are a little closer than what most people are used to since the distance from the Wilcox shoe on the IR Patrol  to the eye piece is greater than the distance from the J-arm shoe on the PVS-14 to the eye piece. The INVG is the only mount I've tried that gives me enough distance, that is until I tried flipping the arm like in the "after fix" picture.

I am able to get the center-of-view to match perfectly, but I have not tried it on anyone else yet.


The tilt matches perfectly between the 2 units, and there is an inter-pupillary adjustment on both arms. It's almost like they thought about this setup ahead of time.

Yes, but only with the brightness way down on the IRP. It's definitely heavy. I'll put it on the shipping scale when I get a chance.

 


The real reason I like this setup is for driving with the 14, and having easy access to a thermal whenever I need it for a quick spot. Its one of the only setups that doesnt bang the headliner of a truck when stowed.




It's best used with only one at a time. The dovetail release button on the dual bridge is also much easier to find in the dark than on the m24.


 

The whole thing weights 2.2242 pounds.

 

Here's a list of the weights:


IR Patrol - 1.0548

PVS-14 and IC J-Arm - .7836

Wilcox Dovetail - .0540

Wilcox Bridge Arm(x2) - .1664



For those interested, the M24 weights in at .1774 and the Bridge arm attached to the dovetail at .2204 so there is a little weight savings with the M24.

Photo showing the modified bridge and how much offset it provides.