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The ATN 4K Pro – Full Review – Night Vision Scope on a Budget

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  1. Small correction- there is no 'chemical reaction' in analog night vision.
    It's an electronic photon multiplier. Picture a photon reflected off an object as a stone. Just one isn't going to make a big splash if it falls off a cliff into water. But if there are a lot of other stones it hits going down the cliff, they'll all fall, and make a really big splash.

    A NV tube is like a bundle of tiny straws, called a microchannel plate. A high voltage transformer keeps one end of the plate at a high potential energy. When a small amount of light from an object hits the tube, the photos 'bounce' down those micro-channels, and the voltage difference accelerates them significantly.
    (not really acceleration, since they're already traveling at c, but it gives them more energy.)
    As they bounce down the channels, they knock more electrons off the sides, and all of them cascade to hit a phosphorescent screen, which you're looking at.
    Since the NV tube is a bundle of very tiny tubes, the image isn't just a blur of light, but it retains some sharpness. The smaller and denser those tubes are packed, the better the image.
    In some ways it's similar to how a CRT TV works- except instead of steering an electron beam into a grid, you're collaminating a bunch of essentially random ones.

    Of course, that's a really rough explanation, it's way more complicated than that. Even making microchannel plates is a whole master's degree worth of information.

  2. I use a o light 1350 green laser white light green dot center combined or green itself The only downfall is no recording but who cares I get what I need out of what I’m hunting Three modes just the white plus strobe never use it at 170 I can light up at least five 600 yards I had great Success with the 600 loom paid like 80 us with out a laser so I upgraded put the 600 on my other rifle the 600 will 400 yards easy i’m in the process of getting a GoPro that’s really all I need all this firmware Downloading stuff seems like a pain Most of my hunting is 60 yards at most with a 457

  3. They say if you mount your IR under your rifle you will not get the white out when you shoot. I haven't tried it because I don't do night hunting. Try it and let me know if it works. Thanks

  4. Here is what they Don't tell you:
    1) requires a Micro SD card that is not included.
    2) there are multiple directions on the website to download and install firm ware. each set of directions is different and none them work
    3) you have to have an IBM computer to interface with the scope.
    4) They do not tell you in the booklets (and videos) how to return from the submenus to the main screen.

  5. Good NV and battery life. But the rumor about it not being able to hold zero seems to be true. It's not much but it seems to move each time it turns on.
    Anyone else experiencing this?

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