How can I convert drop to %?
Since the VZ SC testers I made were 2 drops in 5ml, I just scaled up from there and tweaked the drops to make the final recipe. How to convert?
And I vaped some of John's Tab last night. It is delicious already!
Okay, here we go ...
This is for the "drop" method for making smaller test batches. Larger size bottles are mixed differently, since your not going to count out 300 drops here, and 250 there.
Everyone has their own way of measuring and different "tools" they use to measure with .. this is the way I do it.
First, You have to find out how many drops per ml you get of the PG/nic, the plain PG, the Flavoring, and the plain VG, unless your nic is in VG, in which case you would count the drops per mil of the VG/nic base, the plain VG, the Flavoring, and the plain PG.
To do this, you have to decide what you going to use as a container to always drop from ... eyedropper, squeeze bottle etc, and that will be what you always use so your count will be consistent.
Count the drops it takes to make 1ml, (of each one separately ) and write it down.
Next, you need to pick out a calculator you like. A good one is the e-juice-me-up.
http://ejuice.breaktru.com/ Simple, and comes with a bunch of recipes, plus you can add your own.
You will be using it to create a recipe with the information you enter ... you can also "tweak' the recipes, changing the percentages of everything in it, just by changing the numbers.
I always print the recipe out, then I know what, and how much I used of everything in it.
I keep that until I vape the juice, and then I make all kinds of notes on it for the next time I want to make ... or adjust it.
There's a little trick to using the e-juice-me-up calculator ...
It only gives you one little box to enter your drop count in.
It really needs a box for each.
So, I use that to put my nic base count in. ... then after I print it out, I change it three times to match the count of each the PG ..VG..and the Flavoring count. I re-calculate each one, and then I cross off the count on the printed sheet, and write in the correct one.
I do this because my counts for each vary so much. I get 28 for the PG/nic, 23 for the plain PG, 18 for the VG, and 32 for the flavoring. It sounds complicated but it's super fast and simple.
That's the only way I know my recipe is correct according to the drops per ml count.
Now, in your case, I played with the numbers (in reverse) until it told me to add 2 drops of flavoring (for 5ml). With my drops per ml count, it came out 1%. If I told it to add 2%, it told me to add 3 drops.
So DarthEmma and I both agree you used 1% of flavoring in your 5 ml's of base.
But I'm not smart enough in math to do it DE's way
... I let the calculator do it for me.
In any case you will need a calculator someday, unless you keep making 5ml at a time with the drop method, besides they call for % when entering the ingredients, so check some of the different calculators out.
It's almost impossible to create a recipe with more than one flavor without using a calculator, let alone getting it to turn out tasting the same each time.
Hope one of us helped you ... have fun
.. your "lurking"
