The Kestrel 5700 Elite Weather Meter with Applied Ballistics is a comprehensive weather meter and ballistics calculator for demanding users in hard conditions. Color: Flat Dark Earth.
The 5700 Elite is made for measurement and logging of primary environmental conditions, including wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, heat index, pressure, and altitude.
It also contains a powerful ballistics calculator to help you hit your long-range shot on the first try. This meter employs the Applied Ballistics bullet library of custom drag models, an exact measurement of your bullet’s drag profile plus corrections for Aerodynamic Jump, Spin Drift, Coriolis, and Drop Scale Factoring to achieve accurate extended long-range shots. Install the Kestrel LiNK Ballistics app to your smartphone (Android or iPhone) to load your guns/ammo to the meter. The meter includes the software necessary to communicate wirelessly with your phone and compatible rangefinders.
Features
The 5700 Elite provides the following info:
- Wind speed/air velocity
- Temperature
- Wind chill
- Relative humidity
- Heat stress index
- Dewpoint temp
- Wet bulb temp
- Barometric pressure
- Altitude
- Density altitude
- Wind direction
- Crosswind
- Headwind/Tailwind
- Pressure trend
General features.
- Bright green and dim red backlights
- Data Hold Function
- Date & Time
- Waterproof and floating
- High Contrast, Sunlight Readable LCD Display
- Minimum/Maximum/Average Readings
Night Vision
The Kestrel 5700 Elite has a bright green backlight as well as a night-vision preserving dim red backlight that helps users to sustain natural night vision. The NV's backlight incorporates an optical filter to reduce overall brightness and minimize blue and green spectrum light to preserve night vision. Additionally, NV backlights are also much dimmer than a standard backlight, making it more difficult to detect with the naked eye in night operations. This backlight appears soft greyish pink, not red, and is still in the visible spectrum, so it is not compatible with night-vision equipment.