Eotech 553 Battery Life

Here s a review of the eotech 553 optic.

Eotech 553 battery life. One of the benefits of the scar program is it made this issue very apparent considering the eotech 512 553 was on of the main socom optics at the time. If you are using older revision levels e or above anything produced before feb 2004 you will see significantly less battery life. The eotech 553 a65 is a simple rugged reliable and battle tested sight. The 553 a65 utilizing the lithium 123 has a listed battery life of 500 to 600 hours at level 12.

The eotech 553 a65 holographic weapon sight was developed after extensive testing of various optical sights and us special operations command has standardized on the eotech holographic weapon sight as its 1x weapon optic for close quarter and urban combat zones. To meet the stringent requirements set and demanded by our elite fighting forces eotech has developed the eotech holo sight m 553. 553 a65 553 a65tan comes with a 65moa circle w 1 moa aiming dot uses 2 cr123 lithium batteries ussocom standardized type classified su 231 peq average battery life at brightness level 12 is roughly 1 100 hours. I do some shooting with it go over the features discuss some of the failures that have been reported on it and give my opinion overall on it.

Granted 2 8 years is a lot less that 5 years but does it really matter. The eotech has an estimated battery life of 600 hours and an option to power off after 4 hours. If you select the 4 hour option every time that gives you 150 uses of the optic rifle. Eotech revised the design so the batteries were not inline with recoil and in a milled battery housing that was much more robust.