Electronic powder dispenser

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I have a budget setup that is faster than autotrickler or any auto dispenser and very accurate.

What I use:
Lee perfect powder measure
Hornady vibratory powder dispenser
A&D fx 120i - non legal version can still add auto trickler but not legal tender so cheaper than the normal version by $300. But hard to find.

Let’s say I need 37.20gr h4350. First I setup my Lee dispenser. And weigh out a pan to 36.80gr.
Every time I crank on the Lee it gives me very close to 37.00 but never over. I put on the fx scale then use the Hornady vibratory from medium speed and adjust to very slow to get single grains. Until I get 37.20 reading on scale. I also have Rcbs trickler gen2 as back up for single grain.
This method takes me 10 seconds tops once I get the Lee setup. Also the fx scale is key to getting very accurate loads.

Save money and has speed.

Also I use DIY for annealing using a timer a magnetic induction heating tool from amazon.
 
I am using a SuperTrickler. Had an OG Lyman dispenser way back. Went to RCBS MatchMaster.

SuperTrickler is in a different dimension. Accuracy is 10x the RCBS etc. Speed, maybe not 10x but definitely faster. Did I mention accuracy? If I want 29.0 gr of something, I want 29.0, not 29.08 or 28.96. I have it set to .02+/- so I only need to take a stick or add a stick, but I know I am putting 29.0 gr in each casing.

I wouldn't mind trying an AutoTrickler v4 or the other new higher end one that escapes me now.
 
This is what I use and is very accurate getting very low sd also budget but same speed as electronic as I got faster. What you need is:

Rcbs uniflow 3 or the high end Lee powder thrower dispenser is ok also.
Then hornady vibratory tricker you can get used for 50 dollars.
And finally the key is an accurate scale that has many zeros. I got the A&D fx 300i you can get from McDonald’s people who sell auto tricker a non legal scale making it cheaper and can upgrade to auto trickier in future if you want.

Use the Rcbs to throw as close to the amount you need. Measure on scale. Make sure scale is on for hours before use to warm up. Then every time you throw powder then put on scale use the hornady vibrator or Rcbs powder trickler II to give you single kernels until you get the charge you want to
.001 of a grain. Take me 8 seconds max per charge.

As mentioned it’s the scale that is important. Just like a good rifle scope is important and expensive the scale is also just like that.
 
I personally wouldn't recommend the Chargemaster Link. I bought one when my Lyman DPS 1200 died. The RCBS Link has less drift, but is worse in every other way. It tries to be fast so ends up overcharging very often. With Varget it'll overthrow by 0.1 or 0.2 maybe 12-15 charges out of a batch of 50. Annoying, but I guess since it's fast it'll drop another one pretty quickly. It's also useless with ball powders like H335 and H380. Basically it makes a big mess and you end up with little powder granules all over the scale. If it ran at 1/2 the speed it would probably be perfect. Someday maybe I'll take it apart and solve that.

Chris.
 
I have an RCBS Chargemaster and quite like it. To speed up throws, I use a set of Lee dippers. As the machine is trickling out a charge, I pour a 75% charge into the pan with the dipper. Much faster and the machine does its thing to trickle out the correct charge.

The Chargemaster seems to be quite accurate and rarely throws heavy. I don't need .01 gr accuracy. 0.1 is fine for me.
 
To update this thread, the new intellidropper 3.0 has been working great and it has some improvements over the last Gen that I quite like. Specifically the longer knob on the powder dump valve.

Now to go back to the hornady beam scale. I used some check weights that I verified on 3 different electronic scales and tried them on the beam scale. So say I used a 100gr bullet. I can get the beam scale to be zeroed with the bullet in the pan but then when I zero the scale out, the actual indicators still show high. I may have to try to send the scale in to hornady for calibration or replacement.
 
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