Thread: Who uses digital scales and what make?

My set of Lee safety scales are shite. I'm heavy handed so every time I touch them they get thrown out of whack. Looking at getting some digital scales to replace them. Seems to be a lot of conflicting opinions online, some guys say the majority of them are shit, some say you should have a good set of balance scales anyway. The offerings from Dillon and RCBS appear to be the only ones that get consistently good reports. Thoughts? Experiences?

Chargemaster. . . only way to go. . buy once, happy ever after !

Chargemaster, only way to go.

I have a Lyman DPS2 with the 3 upgrade.
I have had it for years, it cost a bit but with the amount I reload it is great
If it dies I will probably get a Charge master.

I use a Hornady Digital set mainly because it's faster than the balance scales, but I check it every now and then against my Redding Balance scales, had it two years and it still seems to be ok.

Short of something like a Prometheus the Chargemaster is the only way to go. One of the best purchases I've made.

+1 for Chargemaster

Yep Chargemaster. But if you are heavy handed and tend to knock things about, electronic scales won't take much abuse before they will be unreliable/inaccurate...

I have the Hornady GS - 1500 electronic scale that came with the Lock n Load classic kit I purchased.

I find it easy to use. a bit slow with the powder trickler and powder thrower. I did notice change in measurements once when the weather changed from a hot day to rain, pressure drop. They seem to be affected easily from a slight breeze.

I have no other scale to check against. from what I have been reading it seems standard practice???

I have read in the manual that best results are achieved when you tare the scales between each load. I had loaded 20 rounds without doing this and found when reweighing the first load it would be 0.2-0.5 gr different to the weight when first weighed????? but the pan would return to zero each time (without a tare) between loads.

+1 for Chargemaster

I've got the GS-1500 scales also. I used them quite a bit after I bought them and thought they were going well. Untill a rechecked some weights like BAZ was saying and the loads were way out!!
Bought a RCBS balance scale straight after that.

The biggest problem I had was when its cold it would not hold a zero and wander everwhere.

Thanks for the replies. I bought myself a set of Dillon beam scales for now. I'm buying a new rifle in the next couple of weeks hopefully so need to keep money aside for that. I will look into the charge master when I have some spare cash to throw around

My Dillon Scales turned up today. Soooo much nicer

I use the Dillon electronic scales, very good

I use a Pact dispenser and scales. Very simple, fast and accurate.