Small RCBS Digital Scale Worth Buying?

[Cloudrepair]

I think most scales are advertising abbreviated specifications that apply only to near lab conditions.
Even a well known (favorite) milligram scale has given people issues with loading room environments.
Some have gone to power conditioners, restricting electronics like cell phones/modems near the scale, LED lighting, antistatic mats, granite surface plates to correct "funny" readings.
That well known scale has realistic specifications
Repeatability (STANDARD DEVIATION) of 1 count,
Linearity over full range of +/- 2 counts.
Add up everything and a few milligram counts are still LESS than a tenth of a grain.

To verify both scale performance in YOUR environment, comparison check weights at several points through out the range and a small sensitivity weight, just like a cal lab would do to put their label on a calibrated device, just might detect poor performance.
But I agree, get a scale designed and built by US engineers, or maybe Japanese (just not Chinese).

Cheaper scales just list +/- what ever.
No mention of zero drift, repeatability or linearity. There might be a 0.1 grain $40 scale that will actually perform to a count, day in and day out.

For the scale posted in first post, try Brownells or even Amazon.

Sorry if I stepped on some toes by posting here.

I haven't heard of led lighting causing problems with a lab type balance/scale. Did you mean fluorescence lights?

 

[Rocketvapor]

Some have gone to
power conditioners,
restricting electronics like cell phones/modems near the scale,
LED lighting,
antistatic mats,
granite surface plates
to correct "funny" readings.

 

[enrique]

No, I bought that scale and it sucked, if you are looking for any accuracy more than 1/2 moa. To much drift and before I knew it I was using rcbs lite chargemaster, then that scale and since I couldn’t trust it, a triple beam for confirmation… 3 scales to try and get accuracy, what a nut…then I upgraded to a rcbs 2000, that sucked also…Save your money and buy a quality scale like a&d fx 120i If you plan on loading and shooting for many more years..Cry once and buy once

 

[jackieschmidt]

I see shooters loading at the range during Matches using a wide variety of small scales, the single most important factor seems to be keeping the wind off.

For what it is worth, I use a RCBS Lite all the time. It has the best wind guard of just about any I have seen. The convenience of having the trickle function without lifting the wind guard and disturbing the pan is worth the extra cost.

The truth is, any little pocket scale, regardless of brand, that cost less than $50 is made in China, many possibly by the same factory.

In short, there isn’t much difference in any of them.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Ohaus YA102 pocket scale. A vender reference to NIST, most likely accredited, not traceable(definitely not NTEP). But should be next level pocket scale, I just don't have a need(yet) for less than 0.10 accuracy on powder charges.