DIY Night Vision - Fitting a battery holder

This building lark is getting highly addictive. So in this installment of building the DIY Night Vision I cover a very basic element of fitting a battery pack inside the screen mounting box.

There are two ways you can do this:
1. Standard battery holder (for 3 x 18650 batteries) for an external charger. View image
2. Battery holder with an intergrated charging circuit. In my current version. View image

The plastic box itself is easily available and if you want to replicate what I have built you can buy it here Plastic box

I have opted for the standard for simplicity and cost at present. However I do see their being a benefit to the Night Vision kit to have an intergrated battery source that is essentially a plug and play affair.

 

 My kits are available all read built so you don't have to go through the pain of doing this yourself.

DIY Night Vision

Well you are probably here because you want to know about building your own night vision. So here it is. If you have been here before and read my first attempt, looking back what a hack, it worked but was far from neat. There was so much I didn't like but all that has now changed. Look at what we have now: Insert new scope picture.

And this is how it looks, excuse the footage as its hard to film one handed in the dark. I am constantly refining the design but at present it has its own internal battery pack, which takes 3 18650 lithium batteries but there is always a decision in the back of my mind as to having an external battery source? Decisions decisions...... Anyway so after it has been nigh on a year since I have done any instructions I thought I would list all my videos here so you can build your own, note I do charge to build the kits as it is my time but you can build this yourself if you have the time and patients. So here we go, please feel free to watch all the videos, comment and share blah blah blah and get in touch if you get stuck. 1. Rough Guide to putting the kit together. 2. Wiring the screen - Part 1 3. Wiring the screen - Part 2 4. Screen mount on the scope Still updating...... please hold the line......