Top 10 best Night Vision Monocular With Head Mount 2022 Price and Feature Comparison

I was some what tentative about purchasing a night vision scope as I didn’t want one that was grainy and green like the old first gen nv scopes. I reaserched quite a bit before I biting the bullet and purchased this scope. I’ll tell you now, I am NOT malcontent at all with the function of this night vision monocular scope. The first thing I did after openning the box was put the scope on the charger, then set to reading the operations booklet. I let the battery charge for about 5 hours as I did a few other things, oh, I should mention the charging cable is only about 18 inches long. After letting the battery charge fully I looked out the window and played with the focusing aspect and found that quite adequate. It was still daylight so I had to wait until nightfall before testing the night vision capabilities, I found I could see quite farther than I anticipated with the city lights and such. At that time I didn’t know the infrared light wasn’t on, I am suprised at the light capturing abilities of this scope. As I was testing the scope I watched a cat walk up the sidewalk about 350 meters away, just a plain as if it was daylight. I then took the scope out behind the house and was impressed with the picture quality in near total darkness, mind you, I still didn’t know the ir wasn’t on.The next day I took the scope to work with me and showed it to a couple of co-workers, one of which was so excited at the way it lit up the viewing area that she said she wanted one, I sent her the link, both people agreed the scope picture was impressive and one even joked saying ” this could bring in a whole new level to window peeking” … smarty pants.Now, after work I received an email message from ESSLNB, I work nights so the message arrived the next day while I was sleeping, it wad just a simple note saying thank you for purchising the nv monocular and it also contained some operational instructions that I think should be included in the manual. That is when I realized the ir light wasn’t on! I was like “WOW, I was getting that kind of pucture WITHOUT the ir?…”, that my freinds is what impressed me the most!Now, once I learned how to adust the picture brightness, and adjust the ir intensity as well as turn it off I had to retest it all over again. Living in a metro area, its rather hard to find an area that is in total darkess but I was able to find an area that was close to it anyway. I found that there is alot of “splash” (for the lack of a better word) when using the infrared light. That is to say, when items a close and the ir light is high it creates glare ( splash) in the pucture. Turning down the ir intensity alleviates that but when you decrease the amount of ir light you also decrease the visable distance you can see.All in all, its a good scope. Fits nice in the hand, has a wrist strap, tripod interface, can be mounted to a helmet or a rifle, memory chip, and soft rubber eye piece.The only thing that I found wrong with the purchase is the instruction manual is lacking in operational instructions. Which the email I received cover quite well, thanks for that by the way.Oh, I am worried about the battery. It is a 750MaH, 3.7v 14500 battery, I asked ESSLNB if I could order another so I would have a spare but they assured me I could find one locally.Other than that…Would I recomend this Nightvision Monocular?Yes, yes I would!

You get what you pay for and you and NV/IR optics range from the low hundreds to the high thousands. I wanted a low cost riffle mountable optic to see in the dark with. I can do this to an extent.Price: I got what I paid for. Most of the optics in this price range were not riffle mountable or the vender advised against it. I didn’t get to range test it but it came with a helmet and a riffle clamp.Performance: if you’re accustomed to pricey military grade NVGs & IR optics, you’ll immediately see the drawbacks. The field of vision is very narrow. This is common in NVGs yet in this particular optic it seems tactically inefficient to mount on a riffle. It zooms by default. You’ll have to play with the dials to get the picture clear. I purchased the optic for home defense to pursue envaders under the cloak of darkness. Unfortunately, the zoom and the small screen make it a poor optic for CQB. Another tactical defect is the brightness of the screen. It’s adjustable and hardly noticeable…yet Charlie would see it in the jungle. While it also comes with a helmet mount, this is not the monocle I would outfit my able soldiers with. What is the best use case for this optic? It looks cool on an AR-15 if you want to achieve SOCOM poser look. This could be used for hunting to scan surroundings from a static position. I wouldn’t attempt to walk around in the dark with this. You can drive in military spec NVGs…not this. Nonetheless this is a great entry level device. It will help you get familiar with IR optics prior to upgrading. I’m waiting on an IR laser and may update my review based on its performance.

Got this for my Dad’s birthday and he absolutely loves it.My only complaint is that it doesn’t zoom out to x1.00. It’s only got 3x, 4.5x, and 6x which can be a bit disorienting if you’re trying to walk with them on, but if it works it works.Also, I was testing it out doing nighttime chores and a plane was passing over head. I turned to look at it and the goggles bricked. Idk wtf happened there, but that says more about the plane than the goggles.Thankfully there’s a reset button for that in the front. It didn’t come with a tool to press the button oddly enough, but I found a thin wire that did the trick.Overall, an ok 300$ product. Will probably buy again for a friend’s birthday.I really wish the lowest setting was 1x instead of 3x, but hey, you can’t win them all and this was the only thing in my price range.

(this review is based on using these as night vision mounted to a helmet) You only really have two options, Spend 3000$ for a regular monocular, or buy one (or two) of these. the differences that you will see are: 1. the field of view is not good, but it is still night vision nonetheless. 2. it’s not going to be green or anything like that of a video game, so don’t buy it if thats what you’re wanting. 3. they have a 2x zoom, so do not expect to be doing things up close with them on, period! you will find these most useful in very low light settings, in a open area or long hallway. in order for you to be efficient with these you will need a IR laser, and an IR light. i’d also suggest a helmet mounted light if you’re going with these, for when you need to get something done up close.

I will send a picture this weekend.There is an implied monocular, but no night vision.Also, what I received is not the model on advertisement.How do they get away with this?!!!

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Overall, like the title says, it works really well and a long distance and the IFR light on it is fairly powerful at a long distance lighting up reflective objects. In the moon light it is very clear for what it is and does.Pros:1.) You have a really good night vision scope anytime you need one and will not hesitate to use it.2.) Wife loves it, she can sit on the back porch at night and keep an eye on the chickens when the coyotes come around. She can see them coming in a half-mile away and let me know when to start sending out warning shots to chase them away.3.) You have a really good night vision scope anytime you need one and will not hesitate to use it. Yes, I said it again. Very well built easy to use and glad i got a good middle of the road unit for my needs.cons:1.) Cannot turn off the IFR light – Would like to be able to not be seen by the glow of the red IR light – can over come with tape but would be a nice option that way when you are watching someone they cannot see you and the red light.2.) Cannot dim the brightness of the LCD eye monitor. It would be nice to drop the brightness down at night fir the same reasons as stated above.- a.) The LCD is so bright that if you take your eye away it lights up your face and can be seen from a far distance.- b.) Cannot use your shooting eye when looking through eye piece because it will destroy any night vison due to the brightness.3.) Digital Zoom SUCKS! Anything with digital zoom sucks but…-a. excellent light and Digital zoom looks great even when taking photos, so if your subject is being lit from a source you can zoom in and get great detail-b. Poor lighting – just sucks but that is with anything “camera alike” device.Better than the other units i saw for less, plenty of videos out there to support its worth at the current price.

The item was easy to use after reading the instructions. It charged in less than an hour out of the box. The grayscale pic above is without the digital zoom and shows a person 4′ tall (dark black spot in center frame) at 100 yards away measured by my rangefinder. The colored pic is a different mode taken without digital zoom and shows a 6′ tall person 65 yards away. In both modes it is easy to identify the presence of a heat signal as compared to surrounding terrain as well as heat signal movement; but there is very little definition beyond 50 yards and basically a heat signal blob at 100 yards. For the price of an entry level thermal imager this is an adequate device to detect the presence of a heat signal but not much more. Spending more money gets you much more definition in the picture. Overall I am happy with the purchase and it is what I expected.

it’s good enough the walk with. the screen quality is pretty bad you cant identify someone’s face past 20 feet. the ir illuminator is very good but is obvious to humans and looks like a pair of eyes. without ir illumination it cant see anything at all on a fullmoon with no clouds it works fine for CQB but outside it is hard too stay hidden with the ir on. YOU CAN look down a scope but you can’t use the built in ir lights because it glares to much but if you have a external ir illuminator you can use a scope great so you can hunt with these but it’s to low resolution to see a boar or coyote past 75 yards but you might see movement past 200 yards

I’ll start by saying that I’ve had a career in high-end military-grade thermal imaging. I’ve been involved with the best of the best from F/A-18 targeting systems to Apache helicopter systems and our beloved LRAS3 system which can see a lit cigarette from 5 miles away. This is none of those, and I expected nothing more. I wanted something to be able to see coyotes, porcupines, skunks etc before I let my dog out at night and it fits the bill for cheap money. Typical low-end microbolometer stuff with a lot of dead pixels right out of the gate, but it works fine. Here’s the thing: although the microbolometer is the same resolution as the similar FLIR Scout model, the lens at the front on the AGM is quite small and therefore doesn’t let in as much IR light. This limits its sensitivity at longer ranges. If you only care about 50 yards or closer, this is fine. If you want to see more detail at 100-200 yards, then spend the extra $200 and get a FLIR Scout which has a much larger objective lens. Resolution will be the same, but you’ll pick up IR signals from much farther away because the lens will be so much larger. The AGM is not just a toy by any stretch, but it’s definitely limited.