i have a set of hornady digital scales.im sent my first one back and they sent me a new one.the new one is as big a piece of dodo as the first.every time i push the zero button it goes to hell. has any body else had bad experiance with digital scales. my beam scale dosnt seam right either at least with low charges. jason

Do you load in your house in the A/C, or in you garage? Where do you store your scale? Temperature is critical with a digital, they don't like heat and variation. I have an RCBS Powder Pro, (made by PACT), I have had no problems, other than you have to let the scale set and stablize for 20 minutes or so.

I have several scales including a scientific digital and a Pact digital with a powder trickler. For ease of use, speed and accuracy I've gravitated almost exclusively to the Pact and trickler set up. It weighs to the tenth. In verifying weight of charges against the scientific which weighs charges to the hundredth of a grain, it is spot on. Absolutely no problems in the 4 years or so I've had it. As a previous poster indicated, air currents and flourescent lights will affect scales, the air currents particularly will affect all scales. Bob T

I have the little RCBS battery digital and love it. It didn't like the cold temperatures in the shed I used to do my loading in but them neither did I.

After 35 years using a balance beam (I started loading when I was 2 mos. old), I tried an electronic and wasn't satisfied. Mine was a Lyman, and I had hell getting it to function consistently before it quit working at all. I'm sure Lyman would have made it right, but by that time I found that everything I do is predicated on anticipating when the beam will swing, and I can get more precision with my old Ohaus than with an electronic.

Chalk this up to the "old dog -- no new tricks" category. I'm sure that the electronics are fine if you didn't grow up with the balance beam. By the way, the innovation of magnetic dampening in the place of oil dampening was THE quantum leap in scales as far as I'm concerned.

I've had several electronic scales including a Dillon, Pact and RCBS and I was never happy with any of them. They just never seemed repeatable, the best I was able to do was +or- .2 of a grain, and that to my way of thinking was unacceptable. I was lucky enough to find an old Ohaus 10 10 10 beam scale that had a grams beam. I had a grains beam made for it by Ohaus and the check weights say it's spot on, always!

Now with 10 10 10 and a Midway electric trickler I'm not only accurate and repeatable but fast as well

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Abe

If everyone thought like me, I'd be a damn fool to think any differently!

I have a Hornady electronic scale (with A/C power adaptor) which I use for weighing brass. I use a RCBS 5-10 beam scale for weighing charges, and check it from time to time with check weights. It's never been off.
Regards, George.