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Ingenious is taking it a little far when the mods are as simple as these.  RCBS helped a lot by keeping their press simple.  The more complicated the press, the more it requires a genuine genious to figure it out a mod for it.  I ain't one of those.  I am a guy who doesn't believe in accepting any flaws in my Progressive...too many cases to load...too little time!

I've been trying to figure out a way to create a primer-out detector like you can buy for tube-fed primer systems....and that's a tall order for a man of non-genious intelligence like me.  I'm thinking I need a electronics whiz to map me out a simple circuit using either a proximity switch, or a photo switch, that can trip a piezo buzzer when the primer strip reaches it...or when the primer strip passes by.  Anybody know of such a guy who likes reloading and frequents this or another reloading forum????

RCBS makes such a detector for their tube primer system option for the Pro 2000, but nothing for those who are using APS.  Go figure....guess genious's are in short supply there these days.  Of course they're thinking you can't see when primers are running out, using a tube, while you can see the strips running out....if you slow down enough to look.

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There are other possibilites too, like a photo cell that knows when the strip is past when it "sees" its beam, and then trips the buzzer.  That circuit would be easy enough, but finding that small of a photo cell that's inexpensive might be more difficult.