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<blockquote data-quote="alank2" data-source="post: 1361561" data-attributes="member: 108"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I've got a RCBS 750 which is a great little digital scale. Those scale/dispensers are also pretty sharp.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to say however that if you want true repeatable accuracy that you might want to consider a beam scale! The reason is that digital scales all have a load cell at their heart and load cells fluctuate. They usually deal with this by constantly rezeroing themselves when nothing is on the pan. That is why many of them have a -0- indicator. While at zero, very small changes in the load cell are ignored and assumed to be the "real zero". Once you add a measureable quantity to the pan it leaves zero and will no longer recalibrate, but remember that the longer you are off of zero the longer that load cell has to wander a bit and your weight be off. So, digital scales are really great for fast measurements. Let it zero, put on the item, get the weight, remove the item, let it zero, repeat. I'm not saying it will do a bad job with high accuracy, there are certainly high accuracy digital scales, just that most of the ones you see for reloading do tend to wander a bit. If you want to spend $300+ on an industrial or lab type scale, that would do better.</p><p></p><p>Good luck,</p><p></p><p>Alan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alank2, post: 1361561, member: 108"] Hi, I've got a RCBS 750 which is a great little digital scale. Those scale/dispensers are also pretty sharp. I'm going to say however that if you want true repeatable accuracy that you might want to consider a beam scale! The reason is that digital scales all have a load cell at their heart and load cells fluctuate. They usually deal with this by constantly rezeroing themselves when nothing is on the pan. That is why many of them have a -0- indicator. While at zero, very small changes in the load cell are ignored and assumed to be the "real zero". Once you add a measureable quantity to the pan it leaves zero and will no longer recalibrate, but remember that the longer you are off of zero the longer that load cell has to wander a bit and your weight be off. So, digital scales are really great for fast measurements. Let it zero, put on the item, get the weight, remove the item, let it zero, repeat. I'm not saying it will do a bad job with high accuracy, there are certainly high accuracy digital scales, just that most of the ones you see for reloading do tend to wander a bit. If you want to spend $300+ on an industrial or lab type scale, that would do better. Good luck, Alan [/QUOTE]
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