20 Most Recent Night Owl Optics Cyclops Compact NOCC3 Monocular - Page 2 Questions & Answers

Hello, is the IR glowing red, don't look into the IR lens. Just place your hand in front of it and see the is a red glare on your had. If there is a red glare then IR is work.
Another thing when you taking a look see through the Night owl NV monocular there should be a green glow from the image intensifier tube, if not, then the NV monucular isn't working properly. stewbison

Jenko, How bad was the clean up of the battery contacts, lot of corrosion? Now it possible to have broken wire to the battery compartment.

If you are mechanical inclined and have some experience with electronic. Here what you do. Remove the front lens. There will be four screws on a concentric ring. Remove the screw and the ring. This unit comes apart in the approx middle. Also, from the front end look for a white Teflon ring with one screw it goes around the image intensifier tube. Remove the screw this will allow the image tube to ability it to move back along with the rest of back frame Be careful here all the wire are white Teflon coated ,all the same color. These wires are HV, and are rated at 2KV with small current. There's a battery tube on the upper right of the back housing. Lots of wire that go to the two switches. Take a pick and gently remove some of the rubber trim cement that was used. The only wire to be concerned about is the ground wire. The positive wire you can see from the back of the back frame housing. There is a aluminum ring that is threaded for the battery cap. Now there is slot cut into the battery tub just under the aluminum threaded ring, you can see the wire. This is the positive wire.

If you don't have the room, remove the plastic cover over the on/off and IR witch cover. There will be six little screws under the plastic cover, remove the screw and the back plastic switching component can be remove the from inside. Make sure all the cement has bee remove.

It is really critical here. take some wire indicators tags. make a picture of the printed circuit board and every where a wire is attached put a tag on the wire and mark the location on the your diagram where that one with its tag is locked. Your are going to find that there are many ground wires to different shielding plates. I can't says it enough, mark those wire and its location on the printed circuit boards

If you need to remove the green image intensifier tube. There a wire teflon cap and cover that goes the voltage multiplier around the image tube. Just gently pull down the white cap, and turn it inside out. Take small pick and remove dielectric jell from inside the cathode. One the jell is removed, then gently pull on the white wire and it will pull out about 3/8 of inch. The voltage multi-
plier ignitor wire is solder to the cathode wire, desolder it. All components then can be laid out.

Check for broken wires. send me another message and I will tell you components to check and how to fire the cathode ignitor. stewbison.

Why do you need to hold the on/off button for 5 sec.? This a Night Owl Cyclops monocular that is manufactured in Russia. There could be a number of thing wrong with, such as; bad image tube, faulty ccfl inverter, toloid coil has shorted, voltage multiplier has goin to kaput heaven, broken wire/wires. Many thing can go wrong. Viewing bright incondesnce light, the sun and anything the admittes visiably light. This will destroy the image tube. stewbison

you mean that Red Star glue doesn't work. Call Night Owl Optics in El Paso, TX. See if they will sell you the rubber button covers. If not, contact me and I will find something to make you a button cover. stewbison

Yes. fpr about $250 from ATN. I have some ATN Russian tube but I can't adverstise on FIXYA.com. You'll have to contact ATN for repairs. stewbison

Hello, so the image intensifier tube light up. Shake it and listen for parts raddle around inside.
How long have you own this Night Owl? Have you been using night vision on bright lights?
If you have the intensifier tube is gone back to the Red Star....it died! The IR operates on a different switch than the controler, ccfl inverter, multiplier, image tube. Sorry. stewbison

There is good bet that I have a tube for this, but it not worth sending to me. Also, maybe it not the image intensifier tube but something else in the electronic.............Made in Russia--Red Star

its a sensor or something so be careful with that

use 2 x AA Batteries

it sounds like the light "pickup" at the front is not working,, was it stored with the front lens cap fitted and in the dark? if not you may have bamaged this "pickup" it could also just be dirt on it,,you can undo the front lens and clean the "pickup" if the unit is turned off and you use a soft lint free cloth

just press down and away from the lens, on the ribbed square located on the spine of the monocle

high voltage lead going into side of tube has poor insulation dissasemble carefully by removing screws behind lens put thick layer of silicone around joint wher white high voltage wire enters tube wait for silicone to dry fully before turning back on
wayne

Hello, there could be a number of problems but 90% of the problems with these Russian manufactured monoculars, binoculars, scopes is the the image intensifier tube. First they are cheaply made, they don't taken much abuse, and if any bright light such as, street lights, car lights, turn on the NV monoculars during the day light hours could and would total damage these Russian manufactured tubes.I hate to tell you but there is a good possibility that the image intensifier tube is bad, sorry. Night Owl Optic and many other US companies use cheap Russian manufactured night vision devise to sell; of course, they make a huge profit on these NV devises. There are a lot of countries in the world that manufacture NV monoculars and other NV devises. Some are good and most are just slap together.If you want a good night vision monocular be prepared to pay top $$$ for them.Made in the USA, Europe, England, and even in China.List it on eBay as Night Vision Monocular and under condition: broken for parts.I wish you luck. GB...stewbison

Try the Mfr's spares and service department

Possibly buy a used model on eBay. Example: https://www.ebay.com/p/Night-Owl-Optics-Explorer-NOCX3-Night-Vision-Monocular/69805296 Night Owl Optics Explorer NOCX3 Night Vision Monocular eBay