Frankford intellidropper

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Hello I’m new here and not sure if this is posted in the proper spot but anyway , the Frankford Arsenal Intellidropper are they worth spending money on , all the reviews I have seen seem to be a strong mix of hate and love for them . Let me know if you use them and or what you think of them .
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Ok , I’m just trying to decide if I buy one from a guy out of Alberta , he’s wanting 250 for it new still in the box
 
Ok , I’m just trying to decide if I buy one from a guy out of Alberta , he’s wanting 250 for it new still in the box
Wait till Boxing Day and the price of them will drop to $220 again. I just bought one and did tons of research on different scales. Nothing beats this for the price you pay. Unless you absolutely need to have something that is more accurate than 1/10 of a grain, this is worth it.
 
Warranty will be nil...
It wil probably work great....
price seems ok, and recoverable if you don't like it
I have a friend who bought two and sent them both back with warranty issues, no problem.
I don't think he picked up a third one however.
The problem was a wondering zero, danged things would not stay calibrated.
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I never had great success with FA products… that said I don’t own the intelidroper. I did look around a little cause I think I would like to by an electronic powder dispenser, I think from what I read and my purpose I would most likely go with the Lyman gen6 compact. Seems to be a pretty solid unit for the price and it is small so a plus in my small space.
 
I have been using my Intelidroper for 4 yrs ( prob 3-4000 rounds) and have no reason to not buy another...so far...
Re-pours have been almost non existent (my old Lyman was at least running 15-20%).
I was pinning for a Hornady at the time, but the price point of the Intelidroper was pretty much 50% of the Hornady...I have not regretted the decision one bit.
I have poured flake, small kernel and IMR stick powder with the thing and after running the "powder calibration algorithm" it works flawlessly with all.
 
I have been using my Intelidroper for 4 yrs ( prob 3-4000 rounds) and have no reason to not buy another...so far...
Re-pours have been almost non existent (my old Lyman was at least running 15-20%).
I was pinning for a Hornady at the time, but the price point of the Intelidroper was pretty much 50% of the Hornady...I have not regretted the decision one bit.
I have poured flake, small kernel and IMR stick powder with the thing and after running the "powder calibration algorithm" it works flawlessly with all.
Regarding the algorithim... do you need to retrain it each time you load rounds. or can you teach it what powder is in the hopper and have it remember. Did you have issues with spillage on the small diameter ball powders?
 
I got watching some videos on these and the guy said that he lets it warm up for up to 45 min before running any charges and seems to stay zeroed so I don’t know if that’s is the solution to that issue .
 
Regarding the algorithim... do you need to retrain it each time you load rounds. or can you teach it what powder is in the hopper and have it remember. Did you have issues with spillage on the small diameter ball powders?
I havent actually tried to go from loading session to session without re-calibrating, I just automatically do it, it takes not much more than a minute to do the re-calibrate, so insignificant.
Ball powder is one I havent used in the machine but I have used significant volumes of short fat kernelled 4759 and 5744 with no spillage at all....99.9% of these powder charges measure to the target charge perfectly.
 
Chalk me up as another who sent it back. I tried everything - warming it up, ball powder vs stick..ect. I have other FA products that are perfectly fine, especially for hunting purposes. But their Intellidropper sucks.

If you do buy one after reading all this, pick it up via Amazon so the inevitable return will be painless. Good luck
 
Seems pretty straightforward, simple enough build by the look of it. Main issue would be reaction time of the scale being fast enough, Lee is probably a good choice in this case as it's well known to be sensitive. Power to switch, to vibrator, to board, to and optical limit switch to kill vibrator. Hardest part is probably to figure out what a person needs to look for for a board for it, or maybe where.
As to buying an intellidropper, it's like any other mass produced cheap elec item, take your chances and roll the dice, 30sec or 30ft or 30yrs. There was a guy ordered 3 in a row, 2 were the warr replacements, none made it to 100rds, mechanical issues, not electrical. Had a bad batch out there, forget if he'e decided he'd sell the third one or was going to pirate it for parts to fix the other two, he said something about he thought about doing, was going to try to get the other two working somehow, as he had two different mech issues with them, figured he had enough parts there. Forget for sure if he had given up getting another replacement or FA had finally flipped him the bird. Think it all occurred last year, vid on YT.
 
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