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Posted: 8/16/2015 2:08:15 PM EDT
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Agema Thermovision 1000 info here: http://support.flir.com/DocDownload/Assets/65/English/557102$C.pdf
At least I think this is the system you might have. Monocular in photo 13 reminds me of the old NAIT pocket scopes. Model NVPS-10 |
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At the moment I am leaning towards concentrating on getting a pair of PVS14s up and running with the potential for a dual setup. I just got done testing the 14 style tubes and to my surprise they all fired up. Most of them have some type of blemish / imperfection but as users they should be great. A lot of the gear is new to me so once I get a good idea on value I plan on letting some go.
Almighty, you rock. It looks like ill have some reading material for the evening. As far as the monocular goes Im pretty sure its a Litton M911. It has a bunch of lenses but I am missing the eye piece so I can't get a good focused image. The tube seems to be awesome, if removal is possible I might look into a transplant. |
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Agema Thermovision 1000 info here: http://support.flir.com/DocDownload/Assets/65/English/557102$C.pdf At least I think this is the system you might have. Monocular in photo 13 reminds me of the old NAIT pocket scopes. Model NVPS-10 It does look just like NAIT's pocket scope. NAIT built the pocket scope in hopes to win the PVS 14 contract. |
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Agema Thermovision 1000 info here: http://support.flir.com/DocDownload/Assets/65/English/557102$C.pdf At least I think this is the system you might have. Monocular in photo 13 reminds me of the old NAIT pocket scopes. Model NVPS-10 Interesting that the document you found even had the protocol specs, so even if the remote controller is (is it?) missing one could code uo a little program to command the camera assuming it's alive in other ways. Just need to dig up an old PC with a RS232 port. |
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Some of those mx-11769's PVS-14 tubes look like they are missing pigtails. They will still fire up without the pigtail, but you'll run into some major performance issues running them like that. you can either get new pigtails and solder them on, or you can solder a resister over the contacts and remove the manual gain feature.
really cool find. i bet you could sell some of the parts off and pick up a sentinel or mod-3 and get a true dual setup going. If it all works, you have enough there to work yourself into a very nice dual tube setup loaded out with helmet, mount, and IR laser. We can walk you through most of the process. Are there PVS-14 objective lenses in the lot? I didn't see any. Were there also MX-10130 PVS-7 tubes? And yeah - it looks like a litton M911 with a commercial lens kit. |
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Some of those mx-11769's PVS-14 tubes look like they are missing pigtails. They will still fire up without the pigtail, but you'll run into some major performance issues running them like that. you can either get new pigtails and solder them on, or you can solder a resister over the contacts and remove the manual gain feature. really cool find. i bet you could sell some of the parts off and pick up a sentinel or mod-3 and get a true dual setup going. If it all works, you have enough there to work yourself into a very nice dual tube setup loaded out with helmet, mount, and IR laser. We can walk you through most of the process. Are there PVS-14 objective lenses in the lot? I didn't see any. Were there also MX-10130 PVS-7 tubes? And yeah - it looks like a litton M911 with a commercial lens kit. What kind of issues will I be looking at with the trimmed tubes? Variable gain obviously won't be possible but will there be many other downfalls? |
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The silver image tubes in pic 13 are from the M60's Tank Thermal Sight. According to this thread they are supposed to be Gen 2? Link.
You also have a lot of image tubes for the VVS-2, aka Driver's night vision viewer. They are AN/PVS-4 tubes with a fiber optic bundle on the back to double the size of the image. They may be hard to use in other projects? Does look like a good haul. |
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What kind of issues will I be looking at with the trimmed tubes? Variable gain obviously won't be possible but will there be many other downfalls? Quoted:
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Some of those mx-11769's PVS-14 tubes look like they are missing pigtails. They will still fire up without the pigtail, but you'll run into some major performance issues running them like that. you can either get new pigtails and solder them on, or you can solder a resister over the contacts and remove the manual gain feature. really cool find. i bet you could sell some of the parts off and pick up a sentinel or mod-3 and get a true dual setup going. If it all works, you have enough there to work yourself into a very nice dual tube setup loaded out with helmet, mount, and IR laser. We can walk you through most of the process. Are there PVS-14 objective lenses in the lot? I didn't see any. Were there also MX-10130 PVS-7 tubes? And yeah - it looks like a litton M911 with a commercial lens kit. What kind of issues will I be looking at with the trimmed tubes? Variable gain obviously won't be possible but will there be many other downfalls? The tube wont function properly. The ones i had with snipped tails had lots of scintillation and looked like they were okay, but once you got them somewhere dark, they were so pixellated that you couldn't see anything. Once the pigtail was fixed, they worked perfectly. Get them all fixed, so you know what you're working with. |
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Yep, I was able to get them up and the images are pretty great. 15K is some crazy money, back in the day those bad boys must have made our snake eaters feel like predator at night. I managed to get a few PVS14 kits ordered so I should hopefully have these running some time next week.
On a side not the VVS-2 amp assemblies make a whole lot more sense now.... 
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Ouch, not sure I want to know. On a side note I think I have hit the ANVIS lens mother load (if I am correct and looking at these right). Visions of dual tubes are dancing in my head... <a href="http://s478.photobucket.com/user/bevisblack/media/ANVIS%20Lenses.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/bevisblack/ANVIS%20Lenses.jpg</a> Quoted:
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tube 4 looks dropped. Trust me, i know... Ouch, not sure I want to know. On a side note I think I have hit the ANVIS lens mother load (if I am correct and looking at these right). Visions of dual tubes are dancing in my head... <a href="http://s478.photobucket.com/user/bevisblack/media/ANVIS%20Lenses.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/bevisblack/ANVIS%20Lenses.jpg</a> Looking forward to seeing some cheap anvis lenses on the EE for a build that I'm doing! |
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