A few things I have noticed using my electronic scales:
Warm up time is mandatory, but variable depending upon the scale itself.
You still need to keep the scale out of air currents like a balance beam.
Anti static matting for worktable and benchtops is available online for a lot less than we used to pay for working on CMOS before www. retailing was available widely. It has to be properly grounded. (This is a good idea for a reloading bench no matter what kind of scale you use and it is worthwhile to keep fabric softener sheets in the powder measure reservoirs and any funnels you use.)
Any AC powered scale can use a line filter. There is an article in the archives of this website dealing with this subject. The filter is basically a magnet laid on the power cord. The article tells where to get one. I happened to have a lot of magnets and just laid one on the line going to my PACT. I have a dehumidifier which will drive the scale nuts if on at the same time. As long as I don't let the dehumidifier blow air near the scale, any decent magnet works to keep the motor noise at bay when the two devices are on at the same time on the same circuit. By decent I mean that it needs to be at least 2 inches long and it needs to be one that is strong enough to give you a little argument about being removed from the door of your gun safe. I have some rare earth magnets that once put on that door are not coming off unless you get a crowbar and pry them off. You do not need those kind, in my experience.
I think anyone who has a scale that is warmed up as the manufacturer recommends and still sees it drifting around should address the problems dealt with by the above. I've had the opportunity to work with not only both my models of PACT scales, but also RCBS and Lyman scales, and have had great results, as long as those potential problems were negated.
As someone noted in an earlier post digital scale discussions always degenerate in certain degenerate minds into a recitation of the lyrics of "Give Me that Old Time Religion" with the words changed to Balance Beam.. To a certain extent I can agree with them if we are discussing the measure of powder charges that do not have to be very accurate--for instance I drop powder in my 30-30 cases from an RCBS uniflow and measure it with the scale only to get the setting of the mic on the powder measure and one or two times during the loading of the cases. I don't even get the trickler out for this cartridge. Same deal for pistol loads unless they are very small cases and the powder does not allow much variance before pressures become questionable.
If I am loading a cartridge I intend to shoot for max accuracy I use the digital scale in conjunction with a linked powder dispenser--mine is the PACT system. This system is much faster than, and as accurate as, my old system using a Bayer pharmaceutical scale (a gift, sort of) a Harrel measure, and a Redding trickler, but would not work for me if I were still loading on the tailgate. I sort of backed into the scale/dispenser thing when one of my kids gave me the PACT dispenser as a Bday gift--still, I would not go back............
Warm up time is mandatory, but variable depending upon the scale itself.
You still need to keep the scale out of air currents like a balance beam.
Anti static matting for worktable and benchtops is available online for a lot less than we used to pay for working on CMOS before www. retailing was available widely. It has to be properly grounded. (This is a good idea for a reloading bench no matter what kind of scale you use and it is worthwhile to keep fabric softener sheets in the powder measure reservoirs and any funnels you use.)
Any AC powered scale can use a line filter. There is an article in the archives of this website dealing with this subject. The filter is basically a magnet laid on the power cord. The article tells where to get one. I happened to have a lot of magnets and just laid one on the line going to my PACT. I have a dehumidifier which will drive the scale nuts if on at the same time. As long as I don't let the dehumidifier blow air near the scale, any decent magnet works to keep the motor noise at bay when the two devices are on at the same time on the same circuit. By decent I mean that it needs to be at least 2 inches long and it needs to be one that is strong enough to give you a little argument about being removed from the door of your gun safe. I have some rare earth magnets that once put on that door are not coming off unless you get a crowbar and pry them off. You do not need those kind, in my experience.
I think anyone who has a scale that is warmed up as the manufacturer recommends and still sees it drifting around should address the problems dealt with by the above. I've had the opportunity to work with not only both my models of PACT scales, but also RCBS and Lyman scales, and have had great results, as long as those potential problems were negated.
As someone noted in an earlier post digital scale discussions always degenerate in certain degenerate minds into a recitation of the lyrics of "Give Me that Old Time Religion" with the words changed to Balance Beam.. To a certain extent I can agree with them if we are discussing the measure of powder charges that do not have to be very accurate--for instance I drop powder in my 30-30 cases from an RCBS uniflow and measure it with the scale only to get the setting of the mic on the powder measure and one or two times during the loading of the cases. I don't even get the trickler out for this cartridge. Same deal for pistol loads unless they are very small cases and the powder does not allow much variance before pressures become questionable.
If I am loading a cartridge I intend to shoot for max accuracy I use the digital scale in conjunction with a linked powder dispenser--mine is the PACT system. This system is much faster than, and as accurate as, my old system using a Bayer pharmaceutical scale (a gift, sort of) a Harrel measure, and a Redding trickler, but would not work for me if I were still loading on the tailgate. I sort of backed into the scale/dispenser thing when one of my kids gave me the PACT dispenser as a Bday gift--still, I would not go back............
