I have the powder dispenser and it sucks! I had to buy a separate scale to check every load dropped, they are all usually off. Someone said there was a trick to make the scale accurate, does anyone know what it was, someone said the straw trick,I looked on YouTube and found nothing.
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Regards,Mike
Regards,Mike
It is the lock n load auto charge powder scale dispencer. The scale is correct, maybe, 30% of the time. I use a balance scale and a dillon now to confirm the correct gr of powder. Which takes forever. I calibrate before every use and turn on 20 min prior to use to let it warm up.
Calling Hornady is a good step.
Making sure there are no air disturbances - like breathing - near the scale is another.
A third is to try a different outlet (circuit) as there may be noise on the power line causing the scale to fidget.
A fourth, assuming the scale and dispenser are powered by a wall-wart transformer, is to get a pair of ferrite cores (Just an example here) and snap one on each end of the power cord. This can help with "noise".
But calling Hornady is never a bad idea.
Making sure there are no air disturbances - like breathing - near the scale is another.
A third is to try a different outlet (circuit) as there may be noise on the power line causing the scale to fidget.
A fourth, assuming the scale and dispenser are powered by a wall-wart transformer, is to get a pair of ferrite cores (Just an example here) and snap one on each end of the power cord. This can help with "noise".
But calling Hornady is never a bad idea.
+1 on the ferrite cores. I put two each on my acculab and rcbs scales. It eliminated drifting on the acculab and maintains zero better. The rcbs powder dispense waw fine just figured it couldn't hurt. Get the noise/line filters at Radio Shack.
