Looking for PARD008 owners' help

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Max115

Max115

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I am wondering if anyone with the PARD008 or 007 has the issue that I found with my PARD008 LRF.

Here is my setup: I shimmed the PARD with the two washers at the end and I was able to get the cross hair in the middle of the screen and hitting my 25 yards zero bullseye. The recording showed the cross hair at the bullseye.

But since I installed the low profile dovetail to picatinny mount to align the scope to my barrel, the recorded footage showed the cross hair not lining up to the bullseye as if I was doing a holdover with the elevation and a bit of windage. I have zeroed the scope at 25 yards and while viewing thru the eyepiece, I was lining up perfectly with the cross hair on the bullseye and hitting it repeatedly. I only found this "misalignment" when I reviewed the footages with my computer.

Any idea what or why this is happening? I will try to remove the shims, rezero and see if the recorded footages would improve or not.

Thanks.

Alex 
 
I don't have one as yet but have done allot of research on them. If you remove your shims it will mess up our actual shooting view so you likely don't want to do that. I would remove the batteries and leave it for a few minutes before reinstalling them. Then do a factory reset. After that and you re-zero see if there is still a problem. Probly a software glitch contact the maker for updates if this does not werq.
 
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@biohazardman. Thanks for the info. Unfortunately my Pard is not functioning now after I attempted to install the firmware I found at Blackwood Outdoor. It lid up to do the firmware installation with the red lights plinking but then nothing happens, just a blank black screen looking thru the eyepiece.

ya I messed up... if someone has any solution please advise, thank you.
 
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well, to make matter worst, my Pard008 is the P model and the Blackwood Outdoor website said not to use that firmware for the P model. damn...
Click to expand...

Is there any way to flash it back to the stock P firmware?

Maybe try plugging the mini hdmi output into a monitor/tv and see if its maybe just not able to use the little display but still shows from the output.

Everyone screws up sometimes don't sweat it, it'll be figured out. (Hopefully without a flight somewhere)

Heres the ticket for elevation, drilled and tapped for a set screw just loosen the screws add some elevation and snug it down again. Not perfect as you cant adjust it on the gun but once is good for each caliber at minimum. I dont adjust it much.

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@Glem. I was hoping you would chime in. Thanks! I feel like a jack-ass for making such a critical mistake of not knowing the model of my PARD008.

I have been trying to search for the original firmware for this model. This was the data I noted before installing the new firmware.

PARD-EN-20200914-R43.V2.05

I have also searched and found the firmware should be a file name called FWPLD008.bin. But I was unable to find it online.

Thanks for the elevation tip.


 
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My PARD008P LRF has been fixed! Thanks to Russ of RussDouglas222 for replying my plead for help. He sent me the correct firmware for my unit and it came back to life. I still have to mount it back on to my HW100T to check the zero and see if there are any issues. I even did a factory reset so hopefully I will get to do some testings if this pouring rain would just go away!
 
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well, I was able to get out and test the PARD footages.

This was the result as compared to the before incident with the wrong firmware.

1) the aspect ratio was screwed up. I need to convert to 4:3 in order to make the footage looks normal. ie, the captured footage is shorter in the vertical view.

2) the video is more grainy

3) I lost the wide angle of the screen than before. Taking the same footage and comparing to before, I capture less width of the surrounding.

one positive is that the cross hair does line up with my POI as viewed from the eyepiece.

I guess I need the proper firmware or new firmware to correct these issues.

Damn for not leaving my PARD alone in the first place...
 
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