Irony and an Eotech

[JSantoro]

Maybe, IF they ever decide to support the battery along the short axis to keep it from popping under the high-use recoil impulse. As it it, they still go TU at inopportune moments for those who may depend upon it.

Given that their generic agency response to all of the battery box issues with the 5-series sights was "Well, we have a repair kit: we'll give you those for free, and YOU can fix OUR design and/or manufacturing flaws...," I don't see them reworking the XPS-series compartment to make it what it COULD be any time soon.

The general shooter, of the sort that says things like "I've had it a long time!" instead of "I've shot 15k rounds with it!" will never know the difference.

[rob_s]

With the introduction of XPS, battery life will be the only thing AP fans has to be happy about.

and what, then, will the Eotech fans have?

[SMGLee]

A more durable sight from some of the older EOT models, a faster reticle than a single dot, build in mount and an easier to source battery. Head up display that don't require you to look through a tube. Laser projection vs a old LED diode so the lens on the EOT don't require tinting in order for dot reflection, which can cause some low light visibility issues.


I am also an Aimpoint fan, own both M2s and T1s. Great optic, I just found I like the EOT with the 65D reticle a bit better.

[VA_Dinger]

and what, then, will the Eotech fans have?

IMO: Better FOV and a sweet 1 MOA dot.

That's my reasons for running EoTech's and it's good enough for me.

[opmike]

Maybe, IF they ever decide to support the battery along the short axis to keep it from popping under the high-use recoil impulse. As it it, they still go TU at inopportune moments for those who may depend upon it.

Could you elaborate on this? The XPS series has been experiencing battery failure?

[DaBears_85]

My Eotech has been intermittently going out lately. I initially assumed it was my fault for turning it on for four hours instead of eight, but when I took it apart I realized mine suffered from the same problem as all the other pre-XPS Eotechs.

Could you elaborate on this? What problem are you referring to?

I remembered Kyle Defoor's Eotech secret fix article and went to town with Crazy Glue. It didn't work...or I didn't do it properly.

This too, if you don't mind.


J

[Defender3]

Could you elaborate on this? What problem are you referring to?



This too, if you don't mind.


J

Might be this article:

http://www.kyledefoor.com/2009/12/mo...ch-secret.html

I have a 512, 552 and an XPS2 and they work well considering all I have are range rifles. I do like the 1 MOA dot of the EOT. I have a CompM3 I've not yet mounted and an H-1 on the way. I expect I'll be appreciating the H-1's small size and light weight, even though my experience will continue to be to the range when I can find the time. FWIW - I work for L-3, but not the EOT division.

[JSantoro]

Could you elaborate on this? The XPS series has been experiencing battery failure?

The battery is basically unsupported in the middle; batteries aren't meant to take stresses on the short axis.

The opposed battery compartment changed nothing except the direction from which battery compartment failures come and the nature of the failures. Instead of battery buffer pads that magically disappear when you change batteries and shitty contact springs that stop working, the seam of the battery along the long axis of the battery fails, the battery leaks, the optic loses juice.

It's no more an absolute universal than "all EOs are crap" is a universal. There are instances of those devices that just won't quit, in the same fashion that there are 97yr-old 3-pack-a-day smokers without a scrap of cancer in them.

But those are the exceptions. Across the population of optics, I don't look any EO device favorably, but I'll be the first to acknowledge that there's folks out there that have heavy firing schedules and have nothing but good experiences. In my head, folks just need to be prepared for the eventuality of ANY device failing, know the how/why of likely failure points and at least try to have a contingency setup....

....and we have more than enough BUIS threads going at any given time already, as if they're rocket-brain-surgery.

[opmike]

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Thank you for the response. I had followed the XPS series briefly the few months following the release. Most reports were favorable (for what it was worth, given the time frame...or lack thereof), but I stopped keeping myself updated after I settled on another Aimpoint.

I must say that I do prefer the sight picture on EOTechs, but not, potentially, at the expense of durability.

[thopkins22]

Could you elaborate on this? What problem are you referring to?

In the 5xx series of Eotechs, the terminals at the forward end of the battery box have a habit of breaking and falling out when you change the batteries. In the case of mine, they broke and the Eotech would sporadically turn off while I was firing. I initially thought that the timer function had decided to turn the optic off, but no...it was broken. While I keep pretty detailed round counts on individual guns, this had been passed between a few. I estimate less than 3k through the Eotech when it broke.

The picture I posted earlier shows the contact springs/rubber thingies sitting next to the battery box they fell out of.

This too, if you don't mind.


J

Defender3 posted the correct link. http://www.kyledefoor.com/2009/12/mo...ch-secret.html I'm sure it could work, but I believe that I glued them back in slightly off center. I'll rip them back out and do it over again, and then I might start pestering Defender3.



It's too bad that Eotech has the issues that they do, because the field of view and the circle with dot reticle are great and faster than anything else I've tried. But I really didn't dig it deciding to break under what was a relatively low round count. This one will get fixed and sold.