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Posted: 3/20/2012 5:20:40 AM EDT
Hey there, everyone 
I am fully aware of ATN's reputation, especially in regards to russian tubes, mediocre (at best) CS and all that... I do seem to remember reading, though, that the PS22 housing isn't all that bad if properly assembled and used together with a good Gen3 tube...?? Now, a buddy offers me an older, but like new, PS22 w/o tube and I have an autogated PVS7 tube right here... well, this got me thinking and I'm all excited about -maybe- owning a decent "poor man's PVS22" very soon. What do I need to be aware of? are there several generations of this housing, it seems newer ads show the PS22 with some mashined/molded in stripes along the exterior...? btw, he had a PVS7 tube installed before, so the housing is compatible with those. I understand that isn't always the case. Thanks! |
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Hey there, everyone
I am fully aware of ATN's reputation, especially in regards to russian tubes, mediocre (at best) CS and all that... I do seem to remember reading, though, that the PS22 housing isn't all that bad if properly assembled and used together with a good Gen3 tube...?? Now, a buddy offers me an older, but like new, PS22 w/o tube and I have an autogated PVS7 tube right here... well, this got me thinking and I'm all excited about -maybe- owning a decent "poor man's PVS22" very soon. What do I need to be aware of? are there several generations of this housing, it seems newer ads show the PS22 with some mashined/molded in stripes along the exterior...? btw, he had a PVS7 tube installed before, so the housing is compatible with those. I understand that isn't always the case. Thanks! Its not like a pvs-14, sure you can drop the tube in, but it may or may not be collimated properly (likely not). Collimation takes a bit of gear and now how. |
| i was thinking about one of these and putting my own tube in - like you , but the guy i get stuff of said i should send him the tube and he would fit it right , as i would never get it right without the proper gear and know how - so that is what i will do - also if you have an autogated tube - make sure as you can ,do that it will be able to stand the recoil from being weapon mounted |
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Is this the PS22 thats on the ATN website for $1899 and you will put a differant tube in it?
I am still learning.Almost pushed the button yesterday but i am still on the fence and can't let loose the money yet.Need to know more before in get my first NV. Whats a good tube cost for a PS22 to make it more reliable? |
This PS-22 topic has been beat to death in the past. The truth is you will have at least a 50/50 chance of the scope having severe POA/POI issues out of the box. You can do an archive search here in the NV forum and see the past threads on this system. 
I personally spoke of these severe issues with an LE Agency purchasing these scopes and then taking 6 months to get their monies back so they could get the bean counters to buy the real deal PVS-22. Vic |
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Is this the PS22 thats on the ATN website for $1899 and you will put a differant tube in it? I am still learning.Almost pushed the button yesterday but i am still on the fence and can't let loose the money yet.Need to know more before in get my first NV. Whats a good tube cost for a PS22 to make it more reliable? The problem isn't necessarily with reliability, rather POI/POA issues. New tubes run ~1700, and make sure it take the recoil. Also from what I've read pulling the tube and replacing it isn't necessarily really easy and there are at least 2 versions of the housing, one that takes the PVS-7 tubes and another that takes a a slightly different tube (russian?) that is very similar to the PVS-7 tube but isn't. And then you have to collimate the unit, again not really easy. There are some guys that have done it but they have a fair amount of experience and equipment to do it correctly. If you are new to the world of NV I would save your money for something else. |
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