As I've posted several times, for the life of me I can't understand the current fasination with digital scales. What "problems" do they solve? Like ATA, my Ohaus/Lyman scale goes back to the mid-60s and is as accurate today as it was then, some 40 years ago. No reason to think it won't still be just as good in another 40. Any fan of digitals want to say that?
I worked as an electronic instrument tech in the space program for years, not all on scales but a few. Digital scales can be made accurate and sensitive but they need constant checking and recalibration to remain so. Check your local grocer's scale for their recalibration periods. Good digitals cost several hundreds of dollars and have recalibration schedules every 4 to 6 months. That maintenance isn't available for the simple and cheap types sold to reloaders.
Digitals aren't for me, I'll keep my old beam scale, thanks. Okay, I admit having only tried one reloader digital so I'm no "expert" on them. But common sense does prevail!
The digital scale I tried had a half second or more lag in showing a change. That made trickling charges a chore, we would usually over trickle and have to remove a few kernels to get it right. We did learn to trickle very slowly as we approached weight but that seemed to defeat the scales claimed virtue of speed, right?
And that digital's "calibration" tended to vary during use. We frequently checked it's weights against a beam scale; you know, one of the "obselete" types we can depend on! And we found it did need to be re-zeroed twice in one loading session. That's just not good enough for me, I want to
know my reloading scale is reading the same, all the time.
I don't understand why anyone has a problem with the swings of a magnetically damped beam scale. Mine and every one I've ever tried will stop within two or three swings, and it doesn't swing at all while trickling. Not saying the swings don't happen with some but it's not happening with mine.
Get a good beam type scale. Don't abuse it, keep the bearings clean and the pivots undamaged and it will work accurately long after you are dead and gone. That's not likely with ANY digital scale I know of.