advice please laser IR, ward 800

[oowee]

I recently bought a ward d 800 complete with B672 black sun illuminator. I am still getting used to it but range and clarity are great but I think the set up could be much improved if I could reduce the overall weight of the unit, which is mounted on a Weihrauch hmr. Most of the weight coming from the illuminator and in particular the head unit with its goldfish bowl size lens.

 

The laser illuminators look to have good range and battery life and would probably reduce the weight of the set up.

Will a laser work with the Ward?

If anyone use a laser on a ward that could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

Does the wavelength matter? Can the beam match / get close to the field of view of a scope?

Is there likely to be much of a weight saving or should i just get a smaller ir torch?

[telf]

cant give any advice on lasers im afraid, but might be worth having a look at the evo range of torches with the interchangeable heads

[Zetter]

Check on NV forum mate but I see to recall reasing a few posts that lasers are not as good as IR torches for digital NV like the Ward. I think you get a bannding effect on them. From what I gathered reading up lasers tend to work a lot better with tubed stuff. If I was you I would look at a black sun T20 if you want light weight. I have one with my Ward 700 and its good to over 150 yards clearly and weights a lot less than the B627.

[oowee]

Check on NV forum mate but I see to recall reasing a few posts that lasers are not as good as IR torches for digital NV like the Ward. I think you get a bannding effect on them. From what I gathered reading up lasers tend to work a lot better with tubed stuff. If I was you I would look at a black sun T20 if you want light weight. I have one with my Ward 700 and its good to over 150 yards clearly and weights a lot less than the B627.

Cheers Zetter that was the way i was looking to go. The head on the one i have is huge, its great for probably 400m but i don't shoot that far.