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Another common question-
"I wear eye glasses, can I use NV with them?"
Yes.
You may even find that you can make the focal adjustments on the unit and not have to use your eye glasses at all. I wear prescription sunglasses most of the day, when I put on NODS I don't need the glasses.
If you find you need to use your eye glasses there is a couple things you need to know and do-
1. Remove the rubber eye cup. "But Robert then the BGs are going to see the white backsplash of the NODs on my face"
The reality is that you are going to have a little backsplash of white (for white phosphor tubes) or green (for GP tubes) on your face. The only way you can SOMEWHAT reduce that effectively is a Wilcox amber filter- and that has it's drawbacks also.
The MAJOR disadvantage of trying to run the rubber eye cup is that you are cutting down on AIR FLOW. That means your rear lens is going to fog once you start moving around, etc.
2. Run the NODs out a little bit from your face. Again- AIR FLOW is what you want. Having the unit tight up to your face means less airflow.
One of the MANY disadvantages of the standard head mount aka "skull crusher" is that there is no forward adjustment, so moving the NODs away from your face a little bit won't be possible with a skull crusher. But with most HELMET MOUNT set ups you will be able to move the NOD forward.
3. If you find you absolutely must wear your eye glasses, get the slimmest tightest fitting pair of sports glasses you can for use with your NODs. Bonus points for thinking ahead spending a couple extra bucks and getting impact resistant ones- especially if your running a monocular (PVS14) instead of a dual tube set. That means when running a 14 that you unaided eye will have some protection against running into sticks, branches, etc. Waaayy back in the long, long ago 30+ years back training without NODs we did a lot of training at night. Guys would pull out cheap "safety" glasses at night and put them on. New guys would laugh and go "look at those nerds". Later when they would come back to camp with their face cut up from crawling through brambles in the swamps, we would laugh back :)
We see this at our NV classes all the time, a new user with his rubber eye cup on, running the NODs tight to his face and 2 minutes after gearing up for the night they are asking "what do you do to keep your lens from fogging up?"
Answer- see above :)
"I wear eye glasses, can I use NV with them?"
Yes.
You may even find that you can make the focal adjustments on the unit and not have to use your eye glasses at all. I wear prescription sunglasses most of the day, when I put on NODS I don't need the glasses.
If you find you need to use your eye glasses there is a couple things you need to know and do-
1. Remove the rubber eye cup. "But Robert then the BGs are going to see the white backsplash of the NODs on my face"
The reality is that you are going to have a little backsplash of white (for white phosphor tubes) or green (for GP tubes) on your face. The only way you can SOMEWHAT reduce that effectively is a Wilcox amber filter- and that has it's drawbacks also.
The MAJOR disadvantage of trying to run the rubber eye cup is that you are cutting down on AIR FLOW. That means your rear lens is going to fog once you start moving around, etc.
2. Run the NODs out a little bit from your face. Again- AIR FLOW is what you want. Having the unit tight up to your face means less airflow.
One of the MANY disadvantages of the standard head mount aka "skull crusher" is that there is no forward adjustment, so moving the NODs away from your face a little bit won't be possible with a skull crusher. But with most HELMET MOUNT set ups you will be able to move the NOD forward.
3. If you find you absolutely must wear your eye glasses, get the slimmest tightest fitting pair of sports glasses you can for use with your NODs. Bonus points for thinking ahead spending a couple extra bucks and getting impact resistant ones- especially if your running a monocular (PVS14) instead of a dual tube set. That means when running a 14 that you unaided eye will have some protection against running into sticks, branches, etc. Waaayy back in the long, long ago 30+ years back training without NODs we did a lot of training at night. Guys would pull out cheap "safety" glasses at night and put them on. New guys would laugh and go "look at those nerds". Later when they would come back to camp with their face cut up from crawling through brambles in the swamps, we would laugh back :)
We see this at our NV classes all the time, a new user with his rubber eye cup on, running the NODs tight to his face and 2 minutes after gearing up for the night they are asking "what do you do to keep your lens from fogging up?"
Answer- see above :)