[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Digital scale

Posted: 4/10/2014 4:44:11 PM EDT

Been using the Hornady digital scale for awhile but I've been getting inconsistent results. I like the speed if the digital scale, so I'd like to avoid the beam scale. Do you guys have any recommendations?

Posted: 4/10/2014 5:15:08 PM EDT

[#1]

Many digital scales work much better if you let them warm up before use. Try turning it on 10-15 minutes before use so that it works through it's warm-up period.

Posted: 4/10/2014 5:53:30 PM EDT

[#2]

I don't know who told you beam scales are slow, mine isn't.

If this is a battery powered scale, try a fresh battery.

Posted: 4/10/2014 6:06:07 PM EDT

[#3]

Maybe "slow" was a poor term. I meant in comparison to a digital scale, a beam scale is slower than a digital scale.

Posted: 4/10/2014 10:13:16 PM EDT

[#4]

If you can use power from an outlet not battery. Let it warm up and give some minutes to stabilize then calibrate it and test it a few times.

Keep out of a draft and some distane away from other electric sources.

Posted: 4/10/2014 11:19:59 PM EDT

[#5]

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Been using the Hornady digital scale for awhile but I've been getting inconsistent results. I like the speed if the digital scale, so I'd like to avoid the beam scale. Do you guys have any recommendations?

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A lot of us have found that many of the digital scales don't allow trickling very well, whether with slow response or cumulative error. Many folks have trouble with fluorescent lights, air currents, noise on the power line, or dirty power (eg ripple) from necessarily inexpensive wall-wart transformers provided. These problems seem to occur on many digital scales even with price tags over $100.

The best digital scale I have is a GemPro 250 which performs very well (except for trickling) on battery power, but it eats batteries like candy. It doesn't run nearly as well on its AC adapter, but it does run well on a dedicated power supply (as well as it does on batteries) I recently acquired and will review here in a while. So it will work quite well for weighing what your PM just threw - not so convenient for trickling.

As a result many of us who use the scale for trickling have gone back to the beam scale, and found them not so slow at all.

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