How to mess with attacker's night vision?

[toddnjoyce]

I do actually have several led panel floodlights set up with remote controls to throw light on my livestock when the dog warns me of some threat. I guess I need to add more; they can all be programmed to the same remote if that becomes necessary.

They work pretty well and the cost isn't prohibitive, but they do run on 120v. Not that they can't be run from an independent battery/inverter or from my house battery backup/inverter as long as that system remains functional.

The problem I have with white light is once that second of advantage is past, I'm left with it's effects on my own natural night vision and I lose some of the advantage of knowing my place in the dark, but especially if the attacker is using thermal, white light might be my best bet.

Like many others, this is really a subject I know little about...

If you’re behind the light and the attacker isn’t, you have the advantage without needing NOD.

 

[Axxe55]

If you light up the field of fire like a football stadium at night, If it is messing with your night vision, it's going to be worse for those in the field of fire than for you. As Todd mentioned as long as you are behind the lights.

Anyone caught in those lights, even if you shut the lights off, or they happen to be smart enough to shoot out the lights, their night vision is ruined for probably close to twenty minutes of more.

 

[gll]

If you’re behind the light and the attacker isn’t, you have the advantage without needing NOD.

I'll definitely improve my lighting and control, even layer it... Thanks for the insight!

 

[baboon]

I learned a very long time ago what attracts strangers to investigate property are some form of road or path in and utility lines.

One of my best friends was a bit broke after a divorce. He built a one room cabin in the woods to save up money. No utilities. Propane fridge & stove, wood burning cook stove & heating stove. Colman lanterns for light. He had springs with good water that he pumped into a tank on a tower for gravity feed.

I hunted it a couple years spending weeks at a time. He was still working at the time a day shift. His cabin was far enough back in a thick woods that no one would ever catch light coming from it even in the winter with less foliage.

I didn't stop the methbillies from checking it out during the day, until I stopped hunting & started greeting them.

Different areas have different problems. Biggest problem being thieves want to take your shit.

Another friend of mine inherited some land with is brother. The problem being cousin having plots of land too! They made improvements to the place. Enough improvements that they didn't go unnoticed. It didn't take long & some thieves cleaned them out.

 

[Axxe55]

I'll definitely improve my lighting and control, even layer it... Thanks for the insight!

If you wanted to take the lights off the grid, or have a back-up if the power was out, maybe check out some solar charged battery LED floodlights.

 

[easy rider]

Flash bangs will mess up those pesky people sneaking up with their night vision too.

 

[Byrd666]

A few strategically placed flash-bangs could work as an alarm system as well as optical disruption.

I was ninja'd

 

[Dead Roman]

2 in the forehead will usually do just enough damage to really mess with the old windows to the soul.

 

[baboon]

Flash bangs will mess up those pesky people sneaking up with their night vision too.

Magicians flash powder will do the same thing & not cost you a $200.00 stamped item no one will sell you.

 

[Dead Roman]

seriously though. IR flood lights.

 

[gll]

If you wanted to take the lights off the grid, or have a back-up if the power was out, maybe check out some solar charged battery LED floodlights.

I do have battery backup for grid down use, and my electric lines extend a fair distance out in most directions. I could light everything outside my yard fence and everything outside my house as tiers.

 

[easy rider]

Magicians flash powder will do the same thing & not cost you a $200.00 stamped item no one will sell you.

You can buy CO2 flash bangs unrestricted.

 

[baboon]

seriously though. IR flood lights.

I would just adjust my Tarsier Eclipse.

 

[gll]

I learned a very long time ago what attracts strangers to investigate property are some form of road or path in and utility lines.

One of my best friends was a bit broke after a divorce. He built a one room cabin in the woods to save up money. No utilities. Propane fridge & stove, wood burning cook stove & heating stove. Colman lanterns for light. He had springs with good water that he pumped into a tank on a tower for gravity feed.

I hunted it a couple years spending weeks at a time. He was still working at the time a day shift. His cabin was far enough back in a thick woods that no one would ever catch light coming from it even in the winter with less foliage.

I didn't stop the methbillies from checking it out during the day, until I stopped hunting & started greeting them.

Different areas have different problems. Biggest problem being thieves want to take your shit.

Another friend of mine inherited some land with is brother. The problem being cousin having plots of land too! They made improvements to the place. Enough improvements that they didn't go unnoticed. It didn't take long & some thieves cleaned them out.

I'm at the end intersection of two power line runs, and the end of a two track road. I'm the least accessible property around and probably the most vulnerable because because I'm the most isolated.

Very few people ever come into my property, even UPS and FedEx drop at my gate, which has no view to my house. I don't use propane.

I am on the grid, but I also have a grid-tied solar system that is battery backed up, essentially a hybrid system. And, I have one well on solar direct pumping to an overhead tank.

Very few people around me know all that. It's not visible to any of my neighbors; I don't worry about them, but most of them know I'm somewhere back here.

I don't keep any regular schedule, seldom leave for more than a few hours, and I've never had a break in or a theft in 23 years of actually living here, or the 4 years before.

It's not now that worries me, but what may be coming, with illegals on the rise or if SHTF and WROL really happens.

 

[gll]

I would just adjust my Tarsier Eclipse.

Nice, lol!

 

[gll]

seriously though. IR flood lights.

I had been thinking that, but what do you see as the advantage over white flood lights? How would you use IR flood lights?

 

[Dead Roman]

I had been thinking that, but what do you see as the advantage over white flood lights? How would you use IR flood lights?

You wont be able to see IR floodlights at night without NODS, so you can leave em on all the time and still be able to sleep, but anyone looking at your place with NODS will be blinded. Also, when you look out with nightvision, everything will be well lit.

 

[Dead Roman]

Flash bangs will mess up those pesky people sneaking up with their night vision too.

They wont. Modern night vision have built in “gates” to prevent getting flashed.

 

[avvidclif]

Me-thinks thou are a bit paranoid. If people come after you with night vision they are better armed than you and you're &^%ked anyway.

Proceed with your life.

 

[gll]

Me-thinks thou are a bit paranoid. If people come after you with night vision they are better armed than you and you're &^%ked anyway.

Proceed with your life.

I already gave you paranoid in my OP... now, you are telling me how to live my life! Not what I asked!