Chargemaster programming question.

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I'm probably the last guy around to soup up his Chargemaster settings for more speed, but I've done it now and am wondering what took me so long. I also run two weight matched pans; and the McDonalds straw like everyone else. Between all of them I'd say the speed is easily doubled, and since there isn't any hurry to race the pan back to the dispenser, bridges in the funnel are a thing of the past.

Does anyone know if there is a setting I can play with to deduce the time it takes for the dispenser to notice that the pan is back on the scale? Once I got past one bottleneck the next one appears.
 
I can pour it through a normal funnel just fine when I'm not trying to slam-dunk the charge through to try to speed up the process. There's no rush when the dispenser is already weighing out the next one.

I do have one Saturn Funnel though, I got it when I was loading 17s, and use it for my .204. Something that drives me nuts though is that the funnel has to be held with one hand while I pour with the other. I'm already running two pans so the funnel has to hold itself.

I'll admit that since it's the only Saturn funnel I own, I don't know if the bigger ones wouldn't hold themselves up. Do they?
 
Talked to a tech at RCBS; there doesn't seen to be any way to decrease the time on the auto-dispence mode. :( I can hit the disp button manually and gain speed that way but there's only so many punches in a button.
 
Seems to me, that auto-dispense starts as soon as the scale detects a stable zero value. I think some custom ammunition makers will run more than one chargemaster for speed.
 
I'm trying to avoid using two Chargemasters. Now that I know that I've got this thing maxed out I can live with it. Between resetting to 700, 200 and .70 and two pans I've doubled my speed. That's likely good enough.
 
Has anyone tried using a powder dispenser set a couple grains light....let the chargemaster trickle up? Is this even possible?

There was a guy on here selling a package....chargemaster....top beam scale....battery powered trickled. His purpose was to exceed the chargemaster 0.1gr variance. Don't think that would lead to speed though...accuracy yes.

Personally I found the chargemaster just about right for rifle cases. Beep...and dump...replace pan....seat bullet and put in tray....just in time for another beep. A good, fast, safe rhythm.
 
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I'm going the other way, I'm looking for accuracy more then speed. I just ordered a gempro, the idea is to use the charges stemming to dispense ~ .1 grain light, toss is on the gempro, then manually trickle to the exact load. I figure it may be 5 seconds slower, but I'm normally waiting about 5 seconds for the chargemaster anyways (even after tweaking the dispensing settings).
 
nowarningshot said:
Has anyone tried using a powder dispenser set a couple grains light....let the chargemaster trickle up? Is this even possible?

There was a guy on here selling a package....chargemaster....top beam scale....battery powered trickled. His purpose was to exceed the chargemaster 0.1gr variance. Don't think that would lead to speed though...accuracy yes.

Personally I found the chargemaster just about right for rifle cases. Beep...and dump...replace pan....seat bullet and put in tray....just in time for another beep. A good, fast, safe rhythm.
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I can't believe you never shut the beep off.
 
I have programmed mine so it's faster, I only use one pan but my press is right beside the scale on it's own separate table so the scale is always perfectly steady. I charge a case and put the pan back, move the funnel to the next case, pick up the charged case and seat a bullet. Repeat. I can seat 2 bullets if I hurry while the scale throws the next charge, if I get behind from fooling around on my phone or measuring oal.

If you set the pan down gently the scale seems to get started faster most of the time
 
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