Antone have a recommended tension gauge for spokes, including working with berd spokes?
Are you looking for a tool for professional or home use?
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Probably prosumer. In other words, I will pay extra for ease of use and accuracy. But for personal use as I manage 6 bikes! Including one with Berd spokes.
Its pricy, but I really love my WheelFanatyk. I have the foot pedal that hooks into my laptop as well.
It’s way overkill for the one wheelset I build a year, but it’s super accurate and easy to use.
Another vote for Wheel Fanatyk.
Bike shop mechanic here. I’ve built a couple hundred wheels with my Unior tensiometer. It comes with a case and a calibration bar. It’s under $100 here in the US. We have the analog/dial gauge DT tensiometer at work and I never use it. Focusing on two separate dials takes an extra second, and when the tensiometer is on and off the spokes hundreds of times over the course of a build, it just gets annoying. Obviously final tension is important but spoke length calculation and building the wheel up slowly, evenly and consistently is arguably more important that your tensiometer being accurate within a few kgf.