what you're looking at is three pvs 14 night vision monoculars laying right here
and from first glance you might say that they look identical and especially if you're new to
night vision and you've never really dove into the specs and all the variants of night vision
monoculars and binoculars they're just going to look like three units laying here on the hay
but the reality is each one of these is very different and there's a reason for this video
and what we're trying to do is equip people with knowledge and information so you can make a really
good decision if you decide that you want to get into night vision one of the things that you would
have seen us doing a lot of recently is running a bunch of night vision ethan and i have been using
night vision for years i definitely wouldn't call myself an expert at night vision but ethan has a
lot of experience around especially thermal units and hunting with thermal hunting with weapons
mounted night vision and what we want to do in this video is kind of dismantle some of the myths
that people are currently saying in the industry and provide you guys hopefully a rundown of these
three different units so that you can make a good decision about what unit would be right for you
so ethan why don't you give them kind of a brief rundown of what these pvs-14s are built out of
and specifically i'm referring to the tubes exactly so the biggest thing that you can't see
is what manufacturer made the tubes and then what the specs are on those tubes
in each one of these units the unit on the right is a photonics echo tube it is a french made tube
and it has a 2222 farm rating which fam stands for figurative merit figure of merit is a calculation
that is done by multiplying resolution by the signal-to-noise ratio
all that to say the higher the farm rating the more clarity you're gonna get out of the unit
so the photonics unit here is 2200 foam the next unit in line here is a green filmed harris tube
and that one we've had for a couple years so that was one of the first pbs14s that we purchased
i don't know two or three years ago yes and we've used this a lot and you know this right
honestly this has the lowest farm rating this one's 17.08 bomb and that's a green thin film
yep and then the last one here which is uh creme de la clarem this is a beast
this is a beast of a pvs-14 i think this one lands somewhere in the ballpark of 5500
2430 right it's about price the price of this unit you spend probably 5 500 bucks
6 000 in this unit there's a very expensive unit and this one has an l3 filmless white phosphor
so tell them a little bit about that maybe again he was talking price i was talking foam there's
a lot of numbers here to consider but the farm rating on this one is about 24 30. and this unit
it's crystal clear and you're going to see because we're going to shoot some footage through these
units why we're talking about this so i'm going to just preface this and give people the background
the photonis tubes are something we've been running a bunch especially lately
and the photonis tubes the benefit of them is currently they're available and that's
something that you're going to want to consider as you're getting out and purchasing night vision if
you decide you want to get a pbs 14 and you want elbit tubes or you want l3 you're going to wait a
long time currently to get those tubes 120 to 180 days to be exact and some people are waiting
longer than that it really it's going to depend we have a lot of sources within the industry a
lot of suppliers that we've worked with if you can find an l3 tube and you want want to build
a pbs 14 or binders with tubes that are specked just like this filmless white phosphor tube
some of the ones that are available are also not up to par i mean they might have the farm rating
they're not up to military spec they'll have a high farm rating but there's gonna be spots
in the tubes and that's something that some people may be okay with and some people not
personally i don't mind a couple spots in the third zone but when the spots start creeping into
the second zone or if you have another spot in the first zone and what that is is imagine like a pie
and the fir the third zone would be the outer layer of the crust of the pie the second zone
would be the next layer in and then the the first zone would be the very center of the
pie which would be the tastiest part so to speak which in the pbs14 is going to be the
section that you look through the most the very center so third second first zone spots
the l3 units that are available now are going to have spots they're going to have dirt they're not
going to be perfect because there's a there's a big military contract being fulfilled right now
and l3 was basically told by our military that they're not allowed to ship any units out to
civilians or anything while this contract is being fulfilled because they're trying to
get it fulfilled as quickly as possible so that presents a problem to you guys
how can you build night vision quickly if you're in the market
and have a need to purchase night vision and one of the things that we wanted to do for you is
shoot some b-roll where we are showing you guys these pbs 14s in different lighting environments
and we're going to put this information on our website where you can shop units just like this
because we see a lot of manufacturers just kind of bashing the photonus tubes the reality is
when you look through the photonics white phosphor tube and i compare it to our harris
green thin film i prefer the photonis echo tube if you put that photonics echo tube
head to head with the l3 when you get into darker situations you will see higher performance out of
the filmless white phosphor l3 it's just it's gonna be what it is very very minimal so the
photonis performs at a high level the l3 is also performing at a high level but when you get into
quite literally blackout conditions is where you will start to see a slight in increase in
improvement with the l3 unit now all that to say that l3 unit is going to be throwing down so much
noise and if you've ever looked through a night vision device at night you'll know what i mean
when i say noise it's like it's like the static on an old tv or something like that you'll see
that static and when you have that much static out of an l3 tube in that total utter darkness
you're going to be wanting to use supplemental rar anyway which all the rifles that we're training
with have some form of ir light for that reason that's why if you watch the site b videos you
saw paul and i running around i had a d-ball a3 on my rifle and he had a peck on his rifle too
that video shoot really opened my eyes to the performance of the photonous tubes how they react
how they auto gate all of the different functions surrounding the photonous tubes and honestly what
i wanted to present to people especially if you're in more of an urban environment where you have
more lit environments like right now tonight you can't tell because we're in a bar and we set up
lighting and all that that fancy stuff but it's a full moon if we would walk out into this field
and i would have this photonous echo pvs 14 on my team wendy bump
i would be perfectly fine i could see everything this would perform flawlessly would the l3 be
incrementally a little bit better yes this would be a little bit better and as you can see from the
footage that we played throughout this video you can see the difference between the tubes but the
reality is the companies that are coming out and saying the photonis is not even one to consider
it's false there's a lot of people calling them garbage and i would personally run a photonics
hands down anytime any condition any situation i would run a photonics i have i have no lack of
confidence in this because it's a french-made tube and right now quite frankly it's what's available
to you guys with the reasonable lead time so when you really start to weigh this out do you want
to wait six to nine months for an l3 tube that's going to perform a little bit better or if you're
ready for your night vision and you want to play with it this summer and you want to play with it
this winter and you don't want to wait until 2022 to start playing with your night vision photonis
is a great option yep so that's just some information that we wanted to arm you guys with
we know that we're in crazy times we've seen through 2020 and 2021 how weird the times are
in 2020 we saw just collapse in certain cities and again i know that people that are buying
night vision aren't necessarily just out in the sticks somewhere running around the
woods i mean a lot of us are but if you're in an urban environment and there's any backlit
anything street lights anything i'm telling you that when you look through the photonis echo
and you look through the l3 you look through the harris here the performance of the photonis
is going to be very surprising for all of you so yes there are better performing tubes technically
but these are available and for example most of the summer anything that we would order in a
setup like this we're only waiting a couple weeks versus months and that varies obviously depending
on when you're watching this video availability of stuff is going to change rapidly so just keep
that in mind but definitely be paying attention to what we're putting out with the night vision game
because there's a lot more coming out with that as well did you have anything else to touch on with
pbs14s or the binders or anything we were running at site b because the binaries at site b were also
photonous tubes we had one that was a bnvd so that was the standard bmvd housing that had
green photonos tubes then we had one of the ul which was the ultralite
bnvd which had photonous white phosphor and those landed at i think like 2048 bomb
around 2050 farm and i think the greens were on 1800 yep 18 and i think there was 1890 and like
1900 or something like that yep and both paul and i run around the woods in the darkness shooting
from anything from walking around in almost pitch black to shooting on the move running
around barricades drills stuff that you saw at site b we'll put a card for the video up here
those tubes and those units performed flawlessly for us so guys this is just another option to add
to your arsenal if it's something that you want more information on or you have questions ethan
is the source where you can tap into on instagram his instagram handle is tacticalsense you can also
email us info tatargets.com and check out our website tatargets.com and if you hit the shop
now button there up at the top it'll take you over to our shop page where you can find night vision
units and you can purchase these through us and we have a great supply chain where we can get you
guys connected with solid gear so you can get out get trained and become better protectors anything
else you have for the folks that are watching this at this point for this video nope by night vision
get knight quit buying guns if you have one or two guns you've got your primary guns set up
the next thing's night vision because being able to see in the dark is literally the
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