I've been wanting to add an electronic powder dispenser to my bench for a while now and finally broke down and let go of the money. I picked up a Hornady L-n-L Auto Charge Powder Scale and Dispenser (it being on sale aided in my discision making). Anyway the device showed up yesterday and I have spent time last night and today at my loading bench just doing some evalution. As of yet I have used the dispenser to load about one hundred 45ACP rounds loaded with Unique and I have also run some Varget though just to see how it metered. And as yet I am pleased. When dispensing Unique for my 45 loads on the fast setting I got 3 overcharges and when set on normal speed I got 1 overcharge in 50 rounds. All of the overcharges when recogonized and the machine alerted me about them. When I ran some Varget through this device I found that I had to set the speed to slow (normal per the manual for extruded powders) but I did get excessive overcharges until I reprogrammed the unit. Reprogramming was easy, it only required I hold down a button for several seconds. But other then that small issue Varget metered well through the machine. All and all I am happy with the powder dispenser and I find to be an acceptable device. Especially given the price point.
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Would you recommend this over a powder measure? I have no experience with electronic dispensers and have been curious about them for a while.
I have the same electronic powder measure. I have nothing to compare it to, but it seems fairly acceptable to me. Sometimes I question it's accuracy as the numbers may take forever to move, and then all at once may jump 0.2 grains on the digital readout.
I personally think everyone should have some method of manually dispensing powder. This devise is am improvement from that but having both methods is ideal.
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How long should you let the scale "warm up" before using?
I use both, the manual and the electronic powder measures.
I set the manual measure to the load, dispense it into the pan, set it on the scale of the auto machine, let the auto machine do the trickle.
Then, I take it to the manual scale and double check the load.
As long as I am going to use time to reload, I want every round to be as accurate as the next.
That`s all.
I set the manual measure to the load, dispense it into the pan, set it on the scale of the auto machine, let the auto machine do the trickle.
Then, I take it to the manual scale and double check the load.
As long as I am going to use time to reload, I want every round to be as accurate as the next.
That`s all.
They recommend 15 minutes for the warm up. I have one and use it a lot. I stopped using the auto dispenser... takes way too long and it will allow for overages as well as less powder then what I set... I question it's accuracy though. I seem to get some variances using it for precision. Where my brother doesn't have such a variance with his RCBS.
You can't beat the customer service from Hornady though. I love that about them. Now I just use it as a scale with the powder scoops from Lee and a trickle powder dispenser. Way faster! But the accuracy Luke I said is questionable.
You can't beat the customer service from Hornady though. I love that about them. Now I just use it as a scale with the powder scoops from Lee and a trickle powder dispenser. Way faster! But the accuracy Luke I said is questionable.
