Thermion xg50

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Toro

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Got an email from pulsar that they have the thermion xg50 on sale for $3500. What do you guys think of that scope?I thought I remember reading that it has a better core. How does it compare spec wise with the thermion 2 xp50? Seems pretty cheap for a 640.
 
Price sounds almost too good. The XG has the BAE sensor in it. It is the same sensor (not the core) that Trijicon and Nvision uses. However, the core (firmware) is different to get it to have all the Pulsar bells and whistles. The BAE sensor is a 12µm 640 sensor, so the image is going to be good. The majority of people I have talked to have said the XG's image wasn't as good as Trijicon and Nvision using the same sensor. Lots of people even gave the edge in performance to the Thermion 2 XP50 over the XG. The XG had a higher price originally than the XP, so this led people to the XP50 a lot. I know the BAE sensors are quite expensive and was probably the reason for the early high prices. I can do some digging to find out if the XG is being phased out as that price is amazing.
 
Hi Toro, I take the liberty of giving you a modest advice .... The Pulsar Thermion XG50 you have found, has a really great price, but I think it is a model that is almost at the end of its run .... It has an F50/1.2 lens (effective diameter 42 mm). I think Pulsar will soon launch the Thermion 2 XG50 .... with a brighter F50/1.0 lens (effective diameter 50 mm) As Korey reported, it doesn't seem to have a better view than the much brighter Thermion 2 XP50 (F50/1.0). So much so that many American hunters prefer to buy the latter even if it has 2X base magnification, lower than the XG50, which starts at 3X.
Finally, I would like to point out to you this brand new spectacular Infiray Tube TH50, which has a minimum magnification of 3.5X

https://www.infirayoutdoor.com/thermal-imaging-riflescope-tube-th50-series_p80.html

After the official presentation at the 2 gun and hunting fairs in Verona and Bastia Umbra ..... In Italy it is having a great success in sales, it really looks very good.

At the moment (IMO) there are 3 thermal riflescopes with an excellent quality/price ratio:
1) Bering Optics Super Yoter;
2) Infiray Rico Alpha 50;
3) Infiray Tube TH50.
 
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I got the scoop from Pulsar. Pulsar is discontinuing their use of the BAE sensor in the XG product line. In the future, the XG models will use a sensor from Lynred. They are running sales on the BAE version, and many dealers are as well.

If a person wants one of these, this is the time to get one as they soon will be gone. If something major goes wrong, and the unit needs replacing, you will probably not get a BAE unit again as they won't be available. I haven't seen a $3,500 price but I have seen a few places offering them for under $4K.
 
... and they will probably change the lens from d1=F50/1.2 to d2=F50/1.0 ... With a simple (!?) calculation we can evaluate the percentage increase of the lens surface, which corresponds to the percentage increase of the thermal energy captured by the new one microbolometer sensor:
(S2-S1)•100/S1 =
[((3.14(d2)^2)/4)-((3.14(d1)^2)/4)]•100/((3.14(d1)^ 2)/4) =
[(d2)^2)/(d1)^2)-1]•100 = [((50/1)^2)/((50/1.2)^2)-1]•100 =
[((1.2)^2)-1]•100 =
(1.44-1)•100 = 0.44•100 =

= + 44%

This increase in brightness is truly remarkable!
 
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