I dont have the giraud or an amp but I do have the annie part of the giraud and Ive thought about adding the giraud to it, I did a batch of 275 two weeks ago as opposed to my normal 50 batch and I thought it would sure be nice to have it automated.
With the annie itself I have no issues, I love it. And I dont have a pesky shell holder to use. Sure it requires running 15 warm up cases to start with and get everything on the up and up but thats like 1-2 minutes of time. Sure you have to use tempilaq the first time you use it to figure out your time setting. But from then on its easy street and I have yet to get mine to over heat, even running the 225 6xc at 3.5 seconds and 50 270 cases at 3 seconds as quick as I could go through them.