Dan Truesdell wrote:
the few short
forays into the clouds lead me to investigate an electric AI. Although
we were only in the bumpy stuff for a few minutes at a time,

Now that the FAA has finally relented and allowed you to throw away your
turn coordinator and get a second AI I went and talked to my local
avionics shop about the RC Allen electric AI that I see advertised for
about $1800. They said don't bother as 90% of them come back because
they are so horribly built. They told me to get the reliability of a
vacuum AI it's gonna take about $4000.