Pegasus 2 LRF Support

Your Pegasus 2 LRF ships with the riflescope, a removable 18650 battery, a USB-C charging cable, a rubber eye shade (already fitted), a lens cloth and a quick start guide. Everything you need to charge it, mount it and get sighting is in the box — you'll supply your own 30 mm rings to suit your rifle (see Mounting).

Charge the Pegasus 2 over the supplied USB-C cable. Open the sealing cover on the port and plug it in. The charge light tells you where it's at: red means charging, green means fully charged, and red and green flashing alternately means a charging fault — unplug and check the cable and battery seating. Keep the battery between 0 °C and 60 °C while charging.

The Pegasus 2 uses a rotary power knob, not a press-and-hold button. Turn it to ON to start up, OFF to shut down, and S for standby — from standby, just turn it back to ON to wake it instantly. Standby is the one to use between stands: it saves battery but comes back up faster than a full restart.

Four controls run the whole scope:

• Power knob — ON / S (standby) / OFF.
• Menu/zoom wheel — press for the quick (brief) menu, press and hold for the main menu, rotate for digital zoom, and double-press to fire a manual calibration (FFC).
• Ranging button — press to range, press and hold (3 s) to start or stop recording.
• Focus knob — rotate to focus the thermal image.
• Wheel + ranging button together — takes a photo.

Rotate the wheel to move the cursor, press it to select or confirm, and press-and-hold (or nudge the power knob) to exit and save. A quick press opens the brief menu for the things you change often — palette, brightness, contrast, sharpness, forest mode and distance. Press-and-hold opens the main menu for setup — zeroing, ballistics, LRF, PiP, Wi-Fi, system settings and the rest.

Two adjustments, done once in this order. First the eyepiece (diopter): aim at something with clear thermal detail, get your eye to the eye shade, and turn the diopter ring until the on-screen reticle and readouts are razor sharp — that sets the display to your eye. Then the objective focus: rotate the focus knob until the scene itself is crisp, and re-touch it as your target distance changes. Don't touch the front lens while you're doing it.

The Pegasus 2 uses a freeze-frame zero, which makes it far easier than holding dead still. In the main menu, open Zeroing and set your reticle type, colour, transparency and distance. Then: fire a shot at your target, freeze the image, select the X and Y axis, and rotate the wheel to walk the reticle onto your bullet hole on the frozen picture. Press and hold to exit, then confirm to save. Because the image is frozen, you're not fighting wobble while you dial it in.

Yes — the Pegasus 2 holds 5 zeroing profiles, so you can set it up on multiple rifles and switch between them in the Zeroing Profile menu. Each profile can hold multiple distances. Name them clearly (e.g. by rifle) so you're never guessing in the field.

In the zeroing setup you choose your reticle by pattern, set its colour, and set its transparency so it never washes out over a hot target.

The Pegasus 2 LRF has a built-in ballistic calculator called Smart Ballistics. Switch it on, feed it your load and conditions, and it calculates your bullet's landing point automatically — then, paired with the on-board laser rangefinder, it does the holdover maths for you. You enter your ballistic coefficient, bullet type and weight, muzzle velocity, and sight height (the distance from your muzzle axis to the scope axis), plus the conditions — altitude, temperature, air pressure, humidity, and wind speed and direction. Set it up once for your load and it earns its keep every time you range a target.

Picture-in-Picture (PiP) puts a magnified inset of the image centre along the top of your display, so you can hold fine aim on the target while still seeing the wider field around it. Open the main menu, select PIP and press to toggle it on or off. It's handy for precise placement at distance without giving up your situational view.

That's FFC (flat-field calibration) doing its job — the scope briefly re-baselines the sensor so the image stays clean and even. It's completely normal. You've got three modes: Auto (the scope does it on its own schedule), Semi-Auto (you double-press the wheel to trigger it whenever you like), and Manual (close the lens cover, then double-press). If Auto ever fires at a bad moment, switch to Semi-Auto and calibrate on your terms — a double-press of the wheel does it any time.

The Pegasus 2 has six palettes: White Hot, Black Hot, Iron Red, Alarm, Green Hot and Sepia. White Hot and Black Hot are the everyday workhorses — clean, high-detail, easy on the eye over long sessions. Iron Red and Alarm make hot targets pop for fast detection. It's personal preference and conditions; flick through them in the brief menu and settle on what your eyes read fastest.

All three live in the brief menu — press the wheel, select the setting, and rotate to set the level. Brightness controls the screen; contrast opens up the difference between hot and cold; sharpness cleans up edges. Nudge them to suit the light and your eyes rather than running everything maxed out.

Two features earn their keep in the field. Forest Mode boosts warm targets so they stand out against bush and scrub. Hot Point tracks the single hottest point in the scene in real time. Use them when you're scanning country and want the eye drawn straight to what matters.

Work through it in order: set your eyepiece diopter to your eye first (a soft reticle is usually a diopter issue, not a fault), then the objective focus for your target distance. Trigger a manual FFC (double-press the wheel). Try a different palette and back the brightness off if it's washing out. Nine times out of ten it's focus or calibration, not the scope.

Press the ranging button to range your target — it works from about 10 m out. You can set the aiming dot to show constant or only when triggered, and set the reading to a single range or a continuous readout for 15, 30 or 60 seconds while you track something moving. The Pegasus 2's LRF is a Class 1, 905 nm laser accurate to ±1 metre, rated to 1,000 m — and that range feeds straight into Smart Ballistics.

Short version: it's almost never a fault — it's what you're ranging and the conditions. Quick tips: hold steady, aim at a larger solid part of the target (on an animal, the body, not the legs or head), and avoid ranging through rain, fog or dense vegetation. See the full article, Why won't my LRF measure distance?, in the support library.

Photo: press the wheel and the ranging button at the same time. Video: press and hold the ranging button for 3 seconds to start, and again for 3 seconds to stop. You can record with or without sound — the microphone is a toggle in the settings.

Turn on Auto Record and the Pegasus 2 starts recording by itself the instant it senses the shot — so you capture the moment without fumbling for a button. Great for reviewing shots or sharing them later.

Pixfra optics connect over their own Wi-Fi hotspot to the Pixfra Outdoor app for live view, transfer and settings. Enable Wi-Fi on the scope, then join the scope's hotspot from your phone — the network name is the scope's model and serial number, and you set the password on first startup (change it any time in settings). Then open the app and add the device. Tip: the scope may switch Wi-Fi off automatically below 15% battery to protect runtime.

Connect the scope to a computer with the USB-C cable, enable USB mode, and it appears as a drive — copy your files across like any USB stick.

Two ways. Over the app: when the Pixfra Outdoor app detects a new version it prompts you — tap to update. Over USB-C: download the latest firmware from the Pixfra support download centre to your computer, connect the scope via USB-C, enable USB mode, copy the .bin file across, shut the scope down, disconnect, restart, and confirm to flash. Always start from a well-charged battery.

The Pegasus 2 runs a dual 18650 system — one battery inside, plus a removable external 18650 you can swap in the field. That's the answer to "how do I keep it running all night": carry charged spares and swap the external cell without shutting down your session. Runtime is 9 hours or more at 25 °C with Wi-Fi off.

Use genuine 18650 cells — the manual is explicit that the wrong battery or charger is an explosion risk, so don't cut corners here. For long-term storage, top the battery up to full every six months so it doesn't degrade.

Wipe the body with a soft, dry cloth; for stubborn marks use a cloth barely dampened with a mild, neutral detergent. Never use alcohol, benzene, thinners or anything abrasive. Keep your hands off the front lens.

Yes — the Pegasus 2 is IP67 rated, so it shrugs off rain and dust and handles brief immersion. It's built for Australian conditions. Don't go looking for trouble by submerging it, but weather is not a problem.

Three levels in System Settings, depending on what you need: Format clears your photos and videos; Restore Default resets your settings but keeps your zeros; Factory Defaults wipes everything back to new, including the Wi-Fi password and your zeroing profiles. Only reach for Factory Defaults if you're genuinely starting fresh — you'll have to re-zero.

If it's none of those, talk to the Australian team — we use this gear and we service it here.

The Pegasus 2 has a 30 mm main tube — use 30 mm rings to suit your rifle and the cheek weld you want. Tighten the ring caps evenly, alternating across the gaps in small increments, so the scope seats square and stays put under recoil.

Your Pegasus 2 is covered by full Australian warranty and serviced here — never sent overseas. See our Warranty page for the term and how to make a claim, and keep your proof of purchase. Pixfra Australia is the direct retailer: you deal with us, not a middleman.