Hello from the Florida Space Coast USA
Posted: 16 Apr 2021, 17:20
Howdy,
Just getting back into NVD's. I'm a semi retired military flight simulation engineer with about 30 years of that in my past. In fact, the last contract was delivering 8 each F/A-18C simulators to the US Navy.
I've always loved NVD's, I got second place in my Jr High School science fair building from scratch a Gen 0 NVD using a old RCA 1632 image intensifier tube (IIT) that I built a housing out of PVC pipe, a binocular rear ocular/lens and a Pentax screw mount front plate. The unit was powered by a color TV chassis that provided ~20,000 volt plus voltage to the unit using a HV cable. That was back then.
In 1996 I purchased a NVPVS-10 NVD from NAIT. It was my first Gen III unit. Since then, the housing has fallen apart and become un-serviceable due to the material used in manufacture. So, I did some research over the last month and would up buying a high quality Carson PVS-14 housing kit from Kosher Surplus and then transferring that old tube to the new PVS-14 housing. The IIT is an older Omni I tube, but is still working perfectly. Not to mention the optics on the Carson kit are top-of-the-line and greatly improved the image quality over the original NAIT NVPVS-10 housing.
I'm here to learn all about the latest technology, auto-gated, filmless, et. all. Man have things changed over the years! So now I'm a fellow NVD addict one again. I love to research and always looking for data on anything I do. Now that I'm older and a semi retired OCD engineering SOB, I hope to be able learn and also to share my ride down the NVD obsession.
Cheers everyone.
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Just getting back into NVD's. I'm a semi retired military flight simulation engineer with about 30 years of that in my past. In fact, the last contract was delivering 8 each F/A-18C simulators to the US Navy.
I've always loved NVD's, I got second place in my Jr High School science fair building from scratch a Gen 0 NVD using a old RCA 1632 image intensifier tube (IIT) that I built a housing out of PVC pipe, a binocular rear ocular/lens and a Pentax screw mount front plate. The unit was powered by a color TV chassis that provided ~20,000 volt plus voltage to the unit using a HV cable. That was back then.
In 1996 I purchased a NVPVS-10 NVD from NAIT. It was my first Gen III unit. Since then, the housing has fallen apart and become un-serviceable due to the material used in manufacture. So, I did some research over the last month and would up buying a high quality Carson PVS-14 housing kit from Kosher Surplus and then transferring that old tube to the new PVS-14 housing. The IIT is an older Omni I tube, but is still working perfectly. Not to mention the optics on the Carson kit are top-of-the-line and greatly improved the image quality over the original NAIT NVPVS-10 housing.
I'm here to learn all about the latest technology, auto-gated, filmless, et. all. Man have things changed over the years! So now I'm a fellow NVD addict one again. I love to research and always looking for data on anything I do. Now that I'm older and a semi retired OCD engineering SOB, I hope to be able learn and also to share my ride down the NVD obsession.
Cheers everyone.
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