Overall do you recommend your current touch screen setup for the g1000? I would expect moving to a unit with physical bezels would be a lot more expensive. Are you building it yourself or buying a prebuilt product? Even just buying bezels for 2 ipads is over $1200.
Does your method give you FMS knob control?
Thatās the job of the Knobster.
I do like the touch screen setup a lot. Gives you a lot of flexibility.
I am building the G1000ās and they are costing me about $175 each to build.
Can you elaborate on what parts you are using to build them? Thanks.
Iām guessing youāre 3D printing the bezels and the cost is mostly for the electronics.
Oh is that how you do it inexpensively? I wish I was handy. I donāt think I can even make my own knobster.
Are you replicating brlowe1965ās current setup by buying 2 of those monitors and the stands? Iām thinking of doing the same.
Iām starting with a single screen + knobster and will keep my 2 tablets and Stream Deck XL as part of my setup as well for the time being. Iām sure my setup will evolve over time.
which knobster are you take?
if you have a tutorial for me
I havenāt received my encoder knob yet. All I have is my Arduino Nano that I received earlier in the week. Itās been flashed using Air Manager and is ready to accept the hardware once I get it.
The parts I listed for you earlier in this thread are all that you need to build your own.
Yes printing the bezel. Most of the cost is the $90 display. Also bought pre made PCBās.
Look up FlightSimMaker on Thingiverse . There is also a very active Discord group building them.
Iāve watched his videos. That why I assumed thatās the route you were taking to get G1000 bezels so cheap.
Iād love to do this myself, but donāt have a 3D printer, and I think it would lock my sim up into a constant G1000 setup. Donāt get me wrong, I do love flying my G1000 planes, but I also quite enjoy the steam gauge 172 and Mooney.
Now if I was setting up a dedicated simpit for a particular plane, Iād love to have dedicated bezels. But Iād likely just cough up the small fortune for the Real Sim Gear units. Although truth be told, if I could be bothered to get into 3D printing, I would be tempted to try this myself.
Iām not locking into 1 panel. Going to have the G1000 setup and a second panel with touch screens and air manager panels for steam planes. I do not do airliners. I have RealSimGear stack with a GNS530, audio and autopilot for the steam planes.
I donāt do airliners either. The biggest I tend to go is the Longitude. And the G5000 is really the reason I like that plane. Itās fun to fly, but I prefer lower altitudes. I donāt really care for hanging out at FL400+ for an entire flight. And Iām not a fan of the FMS systems on airliners and the CJ4.
Itās cool that you have dedicated hardware for the GNS530 for steam gauge planes. For the time being, Iām using my main tablet (iPad 5th gen) to display my main C172 panel, and my 10" Android tablet on the side to display my GNS530. When it comes to the soft keys, I use the touch screen, but the knobs are just too awkward to use accurately with touch IMHO. I use my Stream Deck to control those for the time being. Once I can get my rotary encoder and complete the knobster build, then Iāll be quite happy.
So far, USPS tracking info says the encoder is en route to Canada from Florida. I expect it sometime this week - probably closer to the weekend. My monitor mount from SLAVX should be here Tuesday. And my Wimaxit monitor got export clearance from China earlier today, and FedEx says it should be here next Monday. I wonāt lie - Iām as excited as a kid on xmas morning. 
Itās amazing that you can build for about $350 what RealSimGear charges $2000 for. I think the two touchscreen monitors and one or two knobsters is a good alternative. I can see starting this off by buying the two monitors and then the knobsters when they are available again. Two monitors is only about $400. I like the physical controls but donāt think I want to spend for them. Also the monitors can be used for steam gauges In the appropriate planes as well.
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Thatās why Iām going with the monitors + knobster. Itās more versatile than having physical bezels.
Though if someone would make them for me, I wouldnāt refuse. I donāt know if there are people out there selling them though.
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My propwash hardware arrived early and I got it working yesterday. Thanks for your help!
Anybody on that discord group selling ones that they built or is it purely diy? I canāt find the discord link.