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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    Safran is marketing these to LE, SAR operations, firefighters, etc. I don’t think they are attempting to cut corners and I think they want to deliver a good product. It’s still over $6k so it’s not even really that discounted. If I use it and it fails to spot a hog, nothing terrible happens, but...
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    Taking pictures with these units is kinda useless because of course they don’t have the NV so you just get the raw thermal overlay saved which may or may not be any good as a standalone image. I’m happy to have a fixed TAD once it’s back to me. I think it is going to essentially perform as well...
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    I heard from my CS rep, they have found a fix for the light leak but they do not yet have a clear ETA on the “doesn’t always power on” issue, though they are working on it.
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    Mine has been back at Safran for about a month now, no updates yet but hopefully they are fixing issues for both our sakes. It’s a little nuts that we waited like a year for these and they still have so many fairly obvious issues.
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    Night Vision Knights UNS LR A3 (Light Weight -30) L3 High FOM

    Do they have a “high FOM” minimum like 2376 or something else?
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    This was happening to mine and I believe it was a mount issue, does yours fully and securely lock into the mount ring? Apparently there is a magnet system that detects whether it is fully seated and it will prevent the unit from powering on if it isn’t properly mounted.
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    Spotting Scope or Binoculars (and tripod)

    Agree with others that for PRS, binos are more popular than spotters, and the new Vectronix ones look amazing. I have multiple Leofoto tripods and they are excellent for half the price of RRS.
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    Action Camera recommedations

    Newer GoPros have different batteries that supposedly handle temperature extremes better. IMO they are still the king of action cams although there are specific use cases where something else might be superior.
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    Rifle Scopes March 1-10 Shorty Dual Focal - Reviews?

    Even if it was identical in optical performance, moving away from the stupid-ass proprietary mount system would make it a much better buy. I have the 1.5-15 and they significantly improved the optical performance between generations, not certain if they did the same with the 1-10 but it wouldn’t...
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    It probably takes $65 million for a defense contractor to start polishing knobs 😆
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    I was talking about the COTI vs ECOTI. I’m not totally certain why they would even further simplify the TAD menus other than 1) noting that Civs still probably aren’t the intended market for these, probably more LE/SAR and 2) perhaps they have tweaked the software sufficiently that they felt...
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    My understanding is that they simplified the E-COTI menus over the COTI because the average grunt being issued one didn’t have the interest or wherewithal to be fucking with all the gain settings especially multiple times throughout the night. Would be easy to accidentally screw up and set the...
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    It looks like the residual heat detection is roughly on par with my Voodoo-S (ie quite good).
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    The day we lost our Republic

    Average bear pit poster complaining about women voters lol
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    My SN would indicate it was probably in the first 10 or fewer production devices. Hopefully it's just new product jitters. I will say TNVC and Safran have both been quite responsive.
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    Horse Power, Track Shit, Torque, Cubic Inches, Liters, Run What Ya Brung, Auto or Cycle

    No, I was saying that homemade white buggy looks like Kirkland brand Ariel Atom 😂
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    Mine snaps in very tight. In fact it’s so tight it wouldn’t snap into the PVS-15 side by about half a millimeter, so the bracket went back to Optics 1 also.
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    Horse Power, Track Shit, Torque, Cubic Inches, Liters, Run What Ya Brung, Auto or Cycle

    Ariel Atom we have at home
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    You said you were sending me a test cap and I said I was happy to help with this. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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    Night Vision Safran TAD

    My TAD is going back to Safran for diagnosis of that light stripe noted on the first page. Hopefully they can sort it out because no one can really seem to answer what it is.
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