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Posted: 7/14/2015 11:01:29 AM EDT
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There's an old PVS-7 at work. It worked a year ago. Someone left batteries in it and the contacts got corroded. Cleaned the contacts and popped in new batteries, no dice. No IR indicator light, no nothing. So what's next? Switch? Any easy way to test that?
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Had a bloke ring me yesterday......... Was driving his boat the night before and had his PVS-7`s around his neck with a woolen balaclava on. Pulled the balaclava off and the goggles went with it straight over the side of the boat into about 60ft of water out in the bay........ No amount of trouble shooting is going to fix that!!!
A bit of corrosion seems so simple to fix compared to the above.. 
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Had a bloke ring me yesterday......... Was driving his boat the night before and had his PVS-7`s around his neck with a woolen balaclava on. Pulled the balaclava off and the goggles went with it straight over the side of the boat into about 60ft of water out in the bay........ No amount of trouble shooting is going to fix that!!! A bit of corrosion seems so simple to fix compared to the above.. Sounds like a good time to upgrade to a PVS-14 or PVS-15 
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I always use lithium power cells in anything that takes 2 batteries and is likely to be stored with them installed...
Alkaline batteries leak and corrode.. Lithium just blows up.. you could always buy some of those short fat batteries to test in it.. they don't use the lower spring. |
| Dunno guys. The contacts are clean. I figured that was the problem when I first started messing with them and scrubbed the hell out of them with contact cleaner and a wire brush, they're bare metal. Maybe just a coincidence that something else went bad while it was sitting? |
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