Night Vision Pulsar fxq50 pic mounts? & Questions...

[PlinkIt]

Have a couple nighttime items I am wondering if there are picatinny mounts for. Wasn't sure if this should go here or accessories, so someone can kick it over if it should have been there.

Pulsar fxq50. I know it's meant to attach to the scope, but is there a way to use the threaded holes in bottom to attach to pic rail?

 

[DownRangeThermal]

Any of the pulsar mounts will work. Dloc is the best. Only trouble is you have to re cal display for shift since these are not meant for rail. and height above rail is 1.75. I use this setup all the time

 

[PlinkIt]

@DownRangeThermal that is absolutely awesome, and exactly what I needed to know!

Too bad nobody makes 1.75" rings...

Is the unit repeating well for you like this? You just keep correction and dial it on scope I'm guessing?...

 

[DownRangeThermal]

You could do it that way. I only use it on one rifle right now and it is very repeatable. It is not a collimated optic due to the end of objective adapters it was designed to work with. Keeps cost down. Even with 1.6 inch rings it is very usable. The gun I use it on has a steiner 1-4 and it works extremely well at 4x.

 

[HenrikOlsen]

@DownRangeThermal Do you think this would work with a Vortex Viper PST Gen 1 4-16x50? The Pulsars are "somewhat" more reasonable to get over here as they only cost 4200 USD Have you ever tried to have together with a Spuhr mount, more specific the Spuhr NV rail?

https://spuhrwebshop.com/en/accessories/a-700.html

 

[PlinkIt]

Well I gave a look into settings after the mention of needing to calibrate the display in order to rail mount...

Either I'm nuts or my unit does not follow the manual...

I have only mounted this unit on one scope so far, and there was a vertical poi shift that I dialed out on scope vs trying to figure out more in the unit. Figured I should educate myself a little more before switching to the rail mount option though so I tried fumbling around the manual a bit.

Can anyone with a fxq verify how you are getting the display calibration done? Because page 15 of the manual says to depress a certain pair of buttons (you get two options, local or from the remote)... Which these do nothing on my unit. So I started reading more...

The menu that shows up on my unit has more options than the manual says it should I believe... And I believe this extra option is actually my display calibration... a cross comes up on the screen and allows me to move it around... BUT when I go into it I get the option to set to set Y axis but I can not change it to move the X axis... Nor does it seem to be doing much of anything by moving the Y axis up and down...

 

[PlinkIt]

Forgive my attempts at taking cell phone pics through the thermal...

Here is everything on my menu, note the arrow is to the left of the icon I don't see explained in my manual

This is the mode that is opened by that menu option, for those of you with these units is this what your display calibration mode looks like?

I can still only adjust y axis here, no button on the unit will let me accept it or switch to x axis... It's just a cross I can move up or down

 

[PlinkIt]

@HenrikOlsen I no longer have a gen 1 PST but I can say I have looked through the thermal with several of my scopes in a bench top only test to see how well the other scopes could see with the unit. I have leaned quickly I want 2x on the bottom end with a huge FOV number so I can see all the info on the screen and get all the coverage possible to scan with. With 4x and a small fov you won't be able to flip through menus without taking it off and setting up as a handheld.

 

[HenrikOlsen]

@PlinkIt It sounds like I need a lower mag scope then? Is there any chance you could trouble you with taking a picture on 4x just to see how much FOV is lost?

 

[PlinkIt]

@HenrikOlsen I'll try this evening to get some pics that'll show what I'm referring to

I don't think you "need" a lower mag scope, I just think it works better with the unit.

 

[DownRangeThermal]

That is the menu to get the thermal lined up and not canted with the crosshairs of your DO. The display calibration menu is accessed by pressing two buttons at once. I will look in the manual

 

[PlinkIt]

@DownRangeThermal thanks that makes sense on just bring for alignment

I just figured out why I couldn't pull up the display calibration. I needed to work the connection back and forth a couple times for the little magnet to realize it was attached to the scope. No problem since then, maybe I didn't have it completely in place.... Anyway, on and off three times now and it can tell the difference each time. So good to go for trying the rail mount. You'll have my order in for one a few min from now

 

[PlinkIt]

@HenrikOlsen
Here is my best attempt at explaining why I think you want the lower magnification so you can get the entire display in your scope on low magnification.

Let me take a minute to say, these pics are by a redneck with a cellphone looking through a scope and in no way show what you will actually see looking into a unit. So please keep in mind this is for FOV purposes only

Attached to a Burris xtr2 2-10 with a 52' fov on 2x

2x you can see everything in menu and the entire fov of the thermal

3x I can't see a couple of the informational symbols like my battery life, but still most of the fov for animals

4x at this point I can only see to shoot and use the display calibration basically

5x

6x

 

[HenrikOlsen]

@PlinkIt Thanks for the pictures! Would it make sense to go for a lower mag scope with a lower lens diameter? I've always been told to go for at least x50 and I use the same rifle for daylight hunting as well as long range shooting (< 1000m) so some degree of magnification would be nice