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From: cygnus@daffy.cis.udel.edu (marc cygnus)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: sources for IR scope tubes
Keywords: IR, video
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Date: 8 Aug 90 17:54:57 GMT
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In article <10846@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, macminn@powertool.crd.ge.com
(Stephen R MacMinn) writes:
|> In article <26851@nigel.ee.udel.edu> cygnus@daffy.cis.udel.edu (marc
cygnus) writes:
|> >...anyone have the beginnings of a clue where I might obtain (relatively
|> >inexpensively) infrared tubes suitable for building a small, portable IR
|> >sight?
|> 
|> <stuff about catalogue co. deleted>
|> 
|> ...and I noticed that they're selling a complete IR seeker head from a
|> sidewinder missile (every kid should have one!). The ad says:
|> 
|> AIM 9B Sidewinder heat seeking missile guidance device...

Well, perhaps I should clarify my request... I want to build an IR scope
suitable for *human* use (a "night scope", loosely).

The missile gadget won't quite work like that. Besides, it probably requires
cooling to ridiculously low temperatures... not something I'd fancy plastering
my eye against.

					-marcus-

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