Home Made Night Vision adapter

[Oldbloke]

Boat. No, they still use rickshaw and junks. Lol

[petemacsydney]

ok boys, hold ya horses... its comin, its comin!!

[Seconds]

Ok, that's some bulls**t right there!

My hopes where right up for having pictures this weekend!

[inventurkey]

Is that how they ship stuff these days? On the roof of house boats

[petemacsydney]

some parts arrived today. shoudl be able to start putting the electronics together and hopefully i will get remaining pieces next week...





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[tom604]

hurry up i want ,no, need to see this in action

[Westy]

looking and waiting!!!!!!!

[petemacsydney]

sorry guys, big 50th party tonight, so no progress on electrics ;-(

[petemacsydney]

OK, small amounts of progress here. Sorry guys, I've been tied up by other stuff... mainly work unfortunately! Didn't even get a chance for a shoot on the weekend! Might have to do some .22 targets at the local night range this week to get me through the week

Anyway... I've mounted the IR device to the scope. I ended up using the bracket below. it seemed to work better than the other one i bought.

here's the progress pics...






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[Westy]

Still watching with great interest Peter can't wait for the finished product!!!

[petemacsydney]

thx mate, i reckon it'll be about two weeks away, but shouldn't be too much longer. just depends on work and home stuff.
i might even try to gather enough time this weekend to finish her off!! just depends on my "frequent family points" status... which are fast drying up at the mo!

[Klem]

hurry up i want ,no, need to see this in action

[Norton]

It's coming along

[petemacsydney]

Hoping to get it working this weekend.. off to the man cave now...

[petemacsydney]

well, had a pretty frustrating day, but have made some progress.
took me 3 hours to work through wiring as my mini recorder and screen just woudlnt work.
must be a fault as it works on a larger 7 inch screen
so its now all together, but its just sooo far from focus that it is unusable for now
looks like i'll need a few more hours to work this sucker out.
very frustrating... ;-(

[Westy]

Keep going Mate were banking on you to work this one out!!!! Your doing better than me I would have given up weeks ago!!!!

[petemacsydney]

thx mate, yup, i'll still keep trying.
i was even dreaming about it in my sleep last night and i think i know what the issue is.. here's hoping!

[tom604]

you can do it,,after all how can i copy it if you don't succeed by the way i will need "very" detailed instructions

[petemacsydney]

lol, no worries.. if it works, i'm more than happy to walk anyone through it

[schink]

This is some serious Macgyver s**t right here.

[petemacsydney]

haha, well... lets see if ti works first!

[petemacsydney]

ok so its been two months since i've worked on this project. Finally picked it back up again. cam is now mounted. here's a shot without night vision.

its taken pointed at a plant and then a TV.

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[Chronos]

missed this thread back in august

i'll tell you pete anyone who's been around the aussie shooting forum scene for long enough will probably remember a few years back there was a lot of chatter about this stuff, everyone was buying parts, ordering this and that, sharing designs and telling us how great they were going to be

and your's is the first one i've ever seen even display an image, i think most of them either gave up or couldn't get it to work.
in fact there's parts for one for sale on another forum this weekend and that sparked a few memories with a few mates about the old threads

hope you get it up and running successfully mate, i'd love to see them working

Chronos

[Westy]

Still waiting to see this baby fire up Pete

[petemacsydney]

thanks boys, worked on it some more this arvo... and guess what... cam works a treat.... IR lamp works a treat... but... cant cycle the F'ING bolt!!

major miscalculation in the housing set up!! oh dear!! Housing plans will need to go back to the drawing board! Got some idea's on how to fix though, shouldn't be too hard,just need more time.

bl**dy annoying as i am going hunting in 8 days and i wanted to get this thing out there! not enough time to fix it for this trip. oh well... at least i have 9 weeks holiday's, should be able to get it working over the next month or so...

PS, I AM SCOPING A TV!!!!!!!!!!!, NOT A REAL HORSE RIDER!!!!!!!!!!!
p.s. needs focus on scope, not on cam

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[Bood]

whats the build budget set you back so far.... am i going to need to sell my kidney for one of these macgyver set ups

[Manimal]

TV is cool... Got some in the field pics though?

A few distances?

Keen as to see the results.

[petemacsydney]

will do eventually (over next few weeks). i've pulled apart the casing as i prepare a new casing to allow for bolt cycle.
i'll also put it under IR and take some snaps

[tom604]

Take your time.

Remember, I will need very detailed instructions

[keen]

And I'll need you to make mine for me