Perhaps you should call Lancair and ask them if they have the small gauges.

IMHO, I wouldn’t bother with backup steam gauges.  Glass panels are extremely reliable these days.  If you have a total electrical failure, your battery backup power in your glass panel has enough power (1-2 hours) to get you any airport big enough to resolve your electrical issue.  Why bother with the extra cost, complexity and weight?

Steam gauge market – there will probably be a market for them until glass panels reach a cost low enough to equal the cost of steam gauges.  Even then, there will likely be some kind of severely reduced price market for them because not all builder have a big budget.

Danny Miller

N 38° 43' 25.7"

W 77° 30' 38.6"

Hello,

After a trip to OshKosh, I'm planning on re-doing the panel in my IV-P.  I'm wondering where the best place would be to get 2.25" airspeed, altimeter, attitude indicator.  The instruments I have now have Lancair logos on them, so I presume they shipped with the kit.  Does Lancair have the 2.25" instruments as well.

Also, if you were  redoing the panel with a Garmin G3X system (3 screens with battery backup), would you even bother putting in the 3 steam guages as backup or is 3 screens redundant enough?

Finally, is there a market for the instruments/avionics I take out?  Perhaps Barnstormers....    stuff like vision microsystems engine monitor, sandel ehsi, steam guages, etc.

Thanks folks!

-Dico