RCBS CM 1500 issues, need help

Road_Clam

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Guys,
I'm trying to dispense 10.6 gr of Trail Boss and my CM is acting weird. I'm pretty sure it has to do with my programmed incremental speed settings. The charge starts out at the lowest speed for about 5 seconds then races up to full speed and abruptly stops generally overcharging. Can you guys suggest better settings for dropping a 10 gr charge ? Thanks
 
I messed around with a number of the “tunes” out there, I used a “tuned” one side by side with one that still had factory parameters. There were none that made much difference and a number of them made things noticeably worse.

If you do start messing with them be sure to write down the factory settings because there is no “reset” that returns them to original settings.
 
It gets a bit interesting. There are recommendations out there for them (I don't have one)

I do work controls so am familiar with how its gone about (or not). Unfortunately they don't list the values in PID format (Proportional, Integral and Derivitive in the controls world).

What I have seen on the Lyman Gen 6 is they ran it medium speed and if you put the right insert into the tube (comes with two or can use none) it works well.

More complex is the Hornady Auto Dispenser with various settings.

The most helpful one was moving the display setting to Slow, very fast but stopped the overshoot. My take is if I don't overshoot I can pick grains out of the tube with a small screwdriver to hit it dead on if I want. Usually ok with 1/10 either way)

That setting seemed to be a pre set PID (or PI, not sure which they use)

Getting into the Hornady programs even on a 1/10 move of whatever value they allow you to adjust turns it into a sloth.

I think I am more partial to the Lyman for control, the touch screen is too small and hard to get input on though. New to the Hornady though so still coming up to speed. Overall its quite a bit faster than the Lyman.

All interesting takes on how you go about it.

If the overshoot is consistent (or fairly) then you can try setting in a lower value and the random one that is still low pick the grains out (assumes stick powder, havn't tried it with ball powders yet - the ones I ran on the Lyman dispensed nicely)
 
RCBS customer service has a good rep. Might try giving them a call or a email

Only thing I have ever done to my CM is the soda straw trick
 
Could try the soda straw mod or one of the machined inserts available for about $15.00. I got one for my RCBS 1500 LITE, it almost eliminated the over/under charges, but slowed the trickle function down to a crawl at times. Can google for the CM inserts or pm me and will provide the guy's email.
 
Unfortunately they don't list the values in PID format (Proportional, Integral and Derivitive in the controls world).

Not only that there are 27 different parameters in a CM 1500 and they give zero information on any of them.
 
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