At Custom Night Vision, we built our Binocular Night Vision Builder to make that process easier.
Instead of choosing a pre-built night vision system and accepting whatever components happen to come with it, our builder lets you start with the components that matter most and configure your system around your specific requirements, budget, and intended use.
Whether you’re building your first set of night vision binoculars or you’re an experienced night vision user looking for a very specific configuration, the Custom Night Vision Binocular Builder gives you the ability to build your system your way.
What Makes the Custom Night Vision Builder Different?
Most night vision dealers sell finished configurations. You choose the model, select an available tube configuration, and that’s essentially the end of the customization process.
That’s not how we wanted to do it.
Night vision is not a one-size-fits-all product. Two people can have completely different requirements for their binoculars depending on how they intend to use them.
One customer may prioritize the lightest possible system. Another may want maximum performance from premium image intensifier tubes. Someone else may need a rugged aluminum housing, manual gain, specific optics, a particular helmet mount, or a complete turnkey package ready to use immediately.
The builder allows you to make those decisions before the system is built.
Custom Night Vision offers one of the most comprehensive online night vision configuration tools available, allowing customers to select individual components and create a system around their specific needs rather than simply purchasing a predetermined configuration.
How the Binocular Night Vision Builder Works
The builder is designed to walk you through the major components of your system. If you’re new to night vision, don’t worry. You don’t need to know exactly what you want before you start.
And if you already know exactly what you want, the builder gives you the flexibility to specify it.
Step 1: Choose Your Binocular Housing
The first major decision is the housing.
The housing is the foundation of your night vision binocular system. It determines the physical design of the device, its weight, features, controls, articulation, power options, and other characteristics.
Depending on the configuration available through the builder, customers can choose from a variety of established night vision housings, including options from manufacturers such as AB Night Vision, Act in Black, and Nocturn Industries.
For example, the builder offers housing choices ranging from lightweight polymer designs to more rugged aluminum constructions. Some options feature articulation, independent pod shutoff, IPD stops, manual gain, auxiliary power, or other features.
This is important because the housing should be selected based on how you intend to use the night vision, not simply which housing happens to be available.
Step 2: Select Your Optics
Once you’ve selected the housing, you can choose the optical system.
Optics are an often-overlooked part of a night vision system. They affect weight, field of view, optical performance, and the overall experience of using the device.
The Custom Night Vision builder provides several optical options, including mil-spec configurations and lightweight systems such as Rochester Precision Optics RPO 3.0, as well as wider-field-of-view options.
For customers trying to minimize weight, the optic selection can make a meaningful difference. For customers who want a more traditional mil-spec configuration, those options are available as well.
The important part is that you get to decide.
Step 3: Choose Your Image Intensifier Tubes
This is where the builder really starts to become different from buying a standard night vision package.
The image intensifier tube is the heart of a traditional analog night vision system. It is responsible for taking available ambient light and amplifying it so that you can see in extremely low-light conditions.
Instead of being locked into a single tube manufacturer or performance level, the Binocular Builder offers multiple image intensifier options.
Depending on availability, customers can select from options including:
- NNVT autogated white phosphor matched sets
- Elbit white phosphor
- L3 white phosphor filmless
- L3 SuperGain filmless
- L3Harris green phosphor matched sets
- Photonis white phosphor
The builder also provides different performance and selection options depending on the tube family selected.
This is one of the biggest advantages of building your system instead of simply buying a preconfigured set of binoculars.
You can decide where your money should go.
If you’re trying to maximize value, there are excellent options available without automatically moving into the most expensive tube configuration. If your goal is maximum performance and budget is less of a concern, premium tube options are available as well.
Why Matched Tubes Matter in Binocular Night Vision
When you’re building binocular night vision, you’re using two image intensifier tubes together.
That means tube selection becomes even more important than it is with a monocular.
A properly selected matched set can provide a more consistent image between the two optical channels. Differences in brightness, gain, resolution, and other tube characteristics can become noticeable when your brain is combining the two images into a single three-dimensional view.
This is one reason we give customers the ability to select matched sets and different tube-selection processes through the builder.
Rather than simply saying, “Here’s a pair of tubes,” the builder allows the customer to make tube selection an intentional part of the purchasing process.
Build a Complete Turnkey Night Vision Package
The Binocular Builder doesn’t stop at the night vision device.
Once you’ve selected the core components, you can add accessories to create a complete turnkey package.
Depending on the options available, the builder can include items such as:
- Helmet mounts
- Ballistic and bump helmets
- Infrared lasers
- External battery packs
- Handheld or clip-on thermal devices
- Communications headsets
- Helmet-mounted illumination systems
- Sacrificial lens protection
- Storage and transport equipment
- Other night vision accessories
This means you don’t necessarily have to purchase your binoculars from one company, your helmet from another, your mount from a third, and then spend time figuring out whether everything is compatible.
You can build the system as a complete package from the beginning.
Why Building Your Night Vision Can Be Better Than Buying a Pre-Built System
There is nothing inherently wrong with buying a preconfigured night vision system. In fact, for some customers, a standard configuration is exactly what they need.
The problem is that a pre-built system may contain components that aren’t ideal for your particular requirements.
You might be paying for features you don’t need, while simultaneously giving up features that you actually wanted.
With the Custom Night Vision Builder, you can make those decisions yourself.
You Choose the Housing
Want lightweight polymer? There’s an option for that.
Prefer a rugged aluminum housing? You can configure that as well.
You Choose the Optics
You can prioritize traditional mil-spec optics, reduced weight, or wider field-of-view configurations depending on your goals.
You Choose the Tubes
Rather than being locked into whatever image intensifier configuration a dealer has packaged with a particular housing, you can choose the tube family and performance level that makes sense for your budget and application.
You Choose the Accessories
Instead of buying a night vision device and then building the rest of your setup piece by piece, you can configure the equipment you need into a single turnkey package.
Why Inventory Matters When You’re Building a Custom System
Customization is great, but customization doesn’t help much if you have to wait months for every component to arrive.
One of the major advantages of Custom Night Vision is our extensive inventory of night vision components.
Our inventory-based approach allows us to build systems using components that are already available rather than relying exclusively on long manufacturer production schedules.
That is one of the reasons our builder is designed around real component availability.
You’re not simply creating a theoretical configuration. You’re selecting from components that we offer for your build, subject to current availability.
What If You Don’t Know Which Options to Choose?
This is probably one of the most common questions we get.
And the answer is simple:
Call us.
You don’t need to become a night vision expert before purchasing night vision.
There are a lot of technical specifications involved in night vision, and some of them are much more important to certain users than others.
Our team can help you understand the differences between housings, optics, image intensifier tubes, FOM, SNR, resolution, gain, weight, and other specifications so you can make an informed decision.
We encourage customers to contact us before ordering if they aren’t sure which configuration makes sense for them. We can help you narrow down the options based on how you plan to use the device and what you want to spend.
The Builder Gives You Transparency Before You Buy
One of the biggest advantages of the Custom Night Vision Builder is transparency.
You can see the components you’re selecting and understand how those choices affect the overall configuration and price.
Instead of wondering what is inside a pre-built night vision package, you are actively selecting the major components that make up your system.
That gives you a much better understanding of what you’re actually purchasing.
Why Custom Night Vision Built Systems Are Different
Custom Night Vision doesn’t simply sell night vision equipment. We build custom night vision systems around the requirements of the customer.
Our website offers dedicated builders for monoculars, binoculars, and panoramic/quad night vision systems, allowing customers to configure everything from a traditional PVS-14-style monocular to advanced multi-tube systems.
The binocular builder is the perfect middle ground for customers who want the depth perception, comfort, and immersive viewing experience of a dual-tube system without being limited to a single factory configuration.
Five-Year Warranty on Custom Night Vision Builds
When you purchase a night vision system built by Custom Night Vision, you’re also purchasing the support behind that system.
Custom Night Vision provides a five-year warranty on CNV-built night vision units.
That means your relationship with us doesn’t end when the box arrives at your door.
We stand behind the systems we build and provide support for customers who need assistance with their equipment.
Is the Binocular Builder Right for You?
If you’re looking for a simple, predetermined night vision package and don’t care about the individual components, a standard pre-built system may be all you need.
But if you want to control what goes into your night vision, the Custom Night Vision Binocular Builder is a much more flexible way to approach the purchase.
It’s particularly useful if you have specific requirements for:
- Weight
- Housing design
- Manual or automatic gain
- Image intensifier manufacturer
- Tube performance
- Optical configuration
- Field of view
- Helmet mounting
- IR illumination and laser equipment
- External power
- Thermal integration
- Communications equipment
- Overall budget
Build It Once. Build It Your Way.
Night vision is a significant investment, and there’s no reason your equipment should be a compromise.
The Custom Night Vision Binocular Builder was created to give customers something that has historically been difficult to get when purchasing night vision online: control over the entire configuration.
You choose the housing.
You choose the optics.
You choose the image intensifier tubes.
You choose the accessories.
And Custom Night Vision puts the entire system together for you.
That is the advantage of a true custom night vision builder.
Instead of starting with a product and figuring out how to make it work for you, start with your requirements and build the product around them.
Start Building Your Custom Night Vision Binoculars
Ready to see what your ideal binocular night vision system looks like?
Visit the Custom Night Vision Binocular Builder and start configuring your system today.
And if the options seem overwhelming, don’t worry. That’s exactly why our team is here. Give us a call and we’ll walk through the options with you and help you put together a configuration that makes sense for your intended use and budget.
Custom Night Vision
Custom-built night vision. Extensive inventory. Professional assembly. Five-year warranty on CNV-built units.