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**goatteatromiag** · 12-12-2011, 07:27 PM

I always thought that Thermal was basically Heat vision, and IR was Night vision?

Night vision is amplification of available light - no light, nothing to see. In cases where there's no available light for a NVD to work, then an IR 'illuminator' is utilized.

12-12-2011, 07:27 PM	#39
goatteatromiag Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 447 Senior Member	I always thought that Thermal was basically Heat vision, and IR was Night vision? Night vision is amplification of available light - no light, nothing to see. In cases where there's no available light for a NVD to work, then an IR 'illuminator' is utilized.
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