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Posted: 3/23/2016 8:23:20 PM EDT
| Anyone do it? Curios about driving a UTV with a single NV around on logging roads, |
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I'm sure it's possible, but many will caution you regarding not having binocular vision and lack of depth perception. Pretty much this. It's not nearly as effective as binos and really not as effective as just driving with lights. You can't see the ground the same way. |
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You need to keep your head moving side to side A LOT to take in the extra info you need to use to drive, because the 40 degree FOV is so restricting. It also helps to have the navigator looking and talk to eachother about hazards! We were taught to move our heads in figure 8s to keep from getting dizzy. We started out with AN/PVS-5's which was nice because you could adjust the focus on each tube. One would be focused for closer up stuff while the other was adjusted further out. When we switched to the AN/PVS-7's you lost that binocular capability. First time out with the PVS-7's we thought we were hot shit. Nope. Almost ended up with the muzzle brake of an M198 coming through my windshield  .
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| We do it all the time at work. We use one of these cheap ir lights spliced to a cigarette plug when its completely dark - no moon. We drive slow, but its not real difficult. |
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Anyone do it? Curios about driving a UTV with a single NV around on logging roads, Done it for hours and hours and hours in HMMWVs with PVS14s on most types of terrain off road and on. Also way too fast. I usualy used the them over my non dominant eye and at the lowest brightness setting possible. PVS7s are definitely not any better, same view but it just covers both eyes. just takes a liittle practice to get used to. Messes with your depth perception a bit ETA: helps having a guy on top with NODs as well. |
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You need to keep your head moving side to side A LOT to take in the extra info you need to use to drive, because the 40 degree FOV is so restricting. It also helps to have the navigator looking and talk to eachother about hazards! I actually found the 40 degree FOV is wider than what my headlights would light up for naked eye driving
The problem I found was the dash lights: if the gauges are lit up enough to see, then they reflect off the windshield and I have a hard time seeing through it |
| Never thought driving with a PVS14 was a big deal. Backing up can be a challenge due to FOV. Many domestic vehicles have interior lights that can't be turned off. They are a PITA. A fully blacked out interior and exterior IR lights would be optimal on a dark night. |
| Driven several hours with just a 14 over non dominate eye. I didn't have any issues at all and felt like I could see more than with headlights in some cases. I could see where having to do maneuvers like tight parking, backing, etc... could be more difficult. Definitely easier with duals for depth perception, but totally possible with a 14 alone. Especially after you get use to it. |
We do all the time. I fold my windshield down on my jeep and it helps a lot. I have bnvd's now tho, and we were driving 50+ mph the other night with good natural illum and no added IR light. I could see 10X farther blacked out under nods than I could with my headlights. 
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In a vehicle,
I've seen people put a towel over the dash cluster to knock down the light, even at its' lowest dimmer setting. If you're in a Vic, google 'dark car settings', they may be of assistance. Fancy people have little velcro stripped blackout panels. Fanciest I've seen, and would like to do for bragging rights, is change all the interior bulbs out to anvis green. I've done some parking lot driving, it's tedious. I know people that have done on road driving, but 60 seemed a lot excessive to me, and I don't really know what the tube would do if hit with one of those blue HID headlights...
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I typically drive while standing on the drivers seat with one leg and working the steering wheel with the other with half my body poking out of the sun roof. This is what sun roof is for after all. The trick is to remember to turn your head sideways before dropping down to hit the breaks or else your goggle wacks the edge of the sun roof. |
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I typically drive while standing on the drivers seat with one leg and working the steering wheel with the other with half my body poking out of the sun roof. This is what sun roof is for after all. The trick is to remember to turn your head sideways before dropping down to hit the breaks or else your goggle wacks the edge of the sun roof.
What do you do for gas? Cruise control? 
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Quoted: What do you do for gas? Cruise control? Quoted: Quoted: I typically drive while standing on the drivers seat with one leg and working the steering wheel with the other with half my body poking out of the sun roof. This is what sun roof is for after all. The trick is to remember to turn your head sideways before dropping down to hit the breaks or else your goggle wacks the edge of the sun roof. What do you do for gas? Cruise control? |
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Did it the other day with the TNVC GoPro adapter and an ANVIS tube...
Worked fairly well. 36 miles... on a highway. No, didn't turn the lights off... this was a test to see how well the GoPro adapter works. FWIW: The GoPro adapter works fine in a Medium to High light situation, not really well in any sort of darkness (I2 limited amplification). The GoPro just isn't sensitive enough. Pulled up next to a police car as the end of the drive, and he saw the helmet, saw the NV Depot Micro, and didn't even care (as the other eye was not covered I assume). I'm thinking vet or guy at the end of his shift. |
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add a golf club and a point system and I will personally vote it into the Olympics! Quoted:
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Does chasing armadillos and rabbits across the hay pasture in a go-Kart count? add a golf club and a point system and I will personally vote it into the Olympics! How about a golf cart and a passenger without NV? Points for running his hands into tree branches that he can't see
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