Are there any good, affordable electric AI's out there? Steam gauge style. I'm not looking to overhaul the panel just yet but it's be nice to add something for inadvertent IMC and as a reference for night VFR.

The plane doesn't have vacuum.

I have the RCA2600 Digital Attitude Indicator. Not cheap but a plug and play unit works great. No spinning parts to ware out.
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The RCA mentioned above is around $2500 ish! I want one bad! Wilgabeast has one i believe...might want to ask Cory how he likes it!

I was in the same boat looking for an AI for the same reason. After seeing a "cheap" one is $2K+ I though well it'd be better to just get a small panel mount solid state like the MGLextreme mini. Well hell I want engine monitoring too down the road...and on and on. So long story short I'm waiting on the MGL Explorer Lite to get in America sometime in April and do everything at once. So $5k for a full panel and engine monitoring vs $2k for just an AI. Just makes sense to go all out in the beginning.

Stay away from RC Allen electric gyros. I'm talking the conventional ones, not the digital ones, which I have no experience with. The RC Allen electric attitude gyros might work fine in a jet, but they dont' seem to like the vibration in small piston powered planes. We ran several of them in small airplanes and every one failed pretty early in their life.

MTV

I installed a Dynon D1 in my Husky. No vacuum system. About $1000. It is perfect as a backup attitude instrument.

Squash wrote:I installed a Dynon D1 in my Husky. No vacuum system. About $1000. It is perfect as a backup attitude instrument.

X2 well worth the money

I will upgrade the panel after a few years of letting the bank account recover from the purchase, but for now there's an empty 3-1/8 (or whatever the std size is) hole and I'd like to fill it with an AI. I'm impartial to electric vs electronic, but no vacuum.

I found some RC Allen's overhauled for a decent price but I'll stay away from those after MTV's experiences.

Seems that the RV guys like the trutrack ADI. Does anyone have any experience with those?