Thread: Best prices on Quantum Pulsar Thermal Devices

Who has these for the best price?

And can anyone explain why infa red atn scope $1400 ish thermal handheld $2-3000 and thermal scope $15k + seems a huge jump when the scope technology is there in infs red. Would think a thermal scooe would be $3-4k

IR scopes can use regular optic lenses and an regular CCD sensor.

A handheld thermal thingee has a special type of CCD sensor that is sensitive to thermal frequencies. These are a different chemistry to the regular silicon based CCDs that all regular digital cameras (visible and IR) use.

A thermal scope has this expensive thermal-specific CCD in it, AND the optic lenses that do the magnification are made of a special glass that allows the thermal frequencies to pass through, unlike regular glass.

The cost is in the special thermal CCD sensor, and the special thermal lenses.

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Ahhh knew some clever bugger here would know the answer

And if not that sounded pretty convincing anyway

So who has the best prices?

I dont know about who has the best prices, but I have dealt with these guys in Nelson before and they were good to deal with. Yukon Optics New Zealand and Pulsar night vision, thermal image, and daylight optics.. Night vision systems, binoculars, goggles, spotting scopes, thermal imagers, riflescopes, rifle sights, range finders. For outdoor recreation, boating, hunting, fi


They certainly knew their stuff. I met them down Tekapo way when they were testing some of the new gear and I was impressed with the results. I have no idea how each one works but the results I saw made me want one. (pity it didn't conjure up any cash to pay for one though...) The commercial hunter that we talked to used them a lot and was happy with them too.

+1 for that crowd @Yukon when it comes to service and warrenty. Great people to deal with

Shucks you guys, you are making me blush

Originally Posted by Yukon

Shucks you guys, you are making me blush

Robbie had a demo one in there last year and we were going to give it a serious try out.
But when I finally pinned him down to a hunt / try out it had gone back to the distributors.
That Robbie has to get his work life balance sorted ah.

Anyway Im seriously keen to see one of these in action and not on bloody sheep and cattle.
Any options for the distributor to get a demo one back to Robbie or anyone in the South Island who has one and wants some company for an outing ?
Even better if they're in Canterbury and have heaps of deer handy !
Or they can come see some in my area ?

Sorry meant to say Robbie from Gunworks of course.

Originally Posted by stretch

IR scopes can use regular optic lenses and an regular CCD sensor.

A handheld thermal thingee has a special type of CCD sensor that is sensitive to thermal frequencies. These are a different chemistry to the regular silicon based CCDs that all regular digital cameras (visible and IR) use.

A thermal scope has this expensive thermal-specific CCD in it, AND the optic lenses that do the magnification are made of a special glass that allows the thermal frequencies to pass through, unlike regular glass.

The cost is in the special thermal CCD sensor, and the special thermal lenses.

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Your explanation is bang-on.

A thermal is basically a digital device that uses a thermal sensor, or correctly know as a microbolometer, that is sensitive to infrared in the 7µ -14µ (7000nm - 14,000nm) wavelength. In comparison, a digital night vision scope is sensitive to IR of 700nm - 1000nm, or .7µ - 1µ. The level of sensitivity of a microbolometer is far higher than a digital CCD or CMOS sensors, and is therefor a lot more expensive.

The other main expense of a thermal is the germanium lens. These are far more expensive than glass lenses, and as the focal length of the lens increases, so does its size, assuming the relative aperture (f-value) remains the same. All the Pulsar Quantum and Apex thermals are defined by the focal length of the lens, (XD38/XD50 etc) the bodies are identical, and the price difference is only the increase in lens size.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Robbie had a demo one in there last year and we were going to give it a serious try out.
But when I finally pinned him down to a hunt / try out it had gone back to the distributors.
That Robbie has to get his work life balance sorted ah.

Anyway Im seriously keen to see one of these in action and not on bloody sheep and cattle.
Any options for the distributor to get a demo one back to Robbie or anyone in the South Island who has one and wants some company for an outing ?
Even better if they're in Canterbury and have heaps of deer handy !
Or they can come see some in my area ?

We had to take Robbie's sale or return back because we ran out of stock. There are quite a few Pulsar thermals in the Canterbury region, whereabouts are you? We are still painfully short of stock, we just can't pull enough in at the moment, anyone would think the roar had started

Have you seen my vids? I filmed a few deer with each of the units, though the image quality is better looking through the eyepiece, it will still provide an idea of performance.

https://vimeo.com/yukonopticsnz

Originally Posted by timattalon

I dont know about who has the best prices, but I have dealt with these guys in Nelson before and they were good to deal with. Yukon Optics New Zealand and Pulsar night vision, thermal image, and daylight optics.. Night vision systems, binoculars, goggles, spotting scopes, thermal imagers, riflescopes, rifle sights, range finders. For outdoor recreation, boating, hunting, fi


They certainly knew their stuff. I met them down Tekapo way when they were testing some of the new gear and I was impressed with the results. I have no idea how each one works but the results I saw made me want one. (pity it didn't conjure up any cash to pay for one though...) The commercial hunter that we talked to used them a lot and was happy with them too.

It was good to meet you Tim. I was too shagged-out to drop-in and sample all the lovely whiskies!

After a saw you, we drove up to Burke's Pass, where I got on to some wallabies. Shooting them at night was like taking candy from a baby because they just stood still, or if I missed one (hate to admit it), they just hopped for a few metres then stopped again. I was nailing them out to around 250m. Those .223 American Eagle varmint tips certainly do the biz.

I am not stirring the pot here, but can someone tell me what all these thermal imagers are being used for in the hunting sense?
I am picking that it is not for rec shooting of bunnys or possums as the price is quite hefty compared to a decent spotlight etc.

I noticed when I re did my doc permit that the conditions now exclude the use of artificial light sources etc, as well as spotlights, and even found carrying such on doc blocks could lead to trouble.

I have had a play with a thermal imager, thanks to Yukon, and they are a great piece of gear.