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ChelsB

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If it turns off in the middle of a pour, I'd say you've got a bum unit (or a bad battery/connection). No matter what scale you're using, auto-off should only kick in when it hasn't registered a change in reading for some time. If it turns off in between ingredients, no big, just turn it back on; you were going to tare it first before you put in the next one anyway, right?

Hmmm...it did turn off as I was pouring!


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Interesting. Which scale did you get? (And @Outcast, I wonder if you have the same one?)

I got this one
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I take store-bought juice and actually can dilute it up to a quarter each time and get four times the amount from a bottle. The reason being you don't want to do that for your mixed juices is because you could eventually end up with too much of a bad mix where is starting lower takes that possiblity away. Diluting will only change the strength of the flavor at hand. Starting lower of flavor percentages you can change the strength of the flavor. Like take for instance, you have a weak strawberry and too much vanilla. You want more strawberry, you can bump it up but you cannot take vanilla out . Does that make sense? Let me know as it sucks doing this on my phone, it would be easier on my home computer to describe better.

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Hmmm...it did turn off as I was pouring!


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Yes I'm did it as I was added nic that time it was ok I just sucked it out and cleaned the bottle next time I was adding 2.5g of a flavor and rd it agen when it can back ok I added the rest I think it needed ...... me off


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Yes, as said, faulty unit, as auto-cutoff don't work like that. The lowest of cutoffs is 30 sec, and you'd then have 30 sec inbetween each drop/poor of same ingredient, but who does that, lol.

The only usefullness of autocutoff, is that you can see the last ingredient used by looking at the display, e.g. if taking a phonecall between ingredient, or if e.g. taking a phonecall halfway through an ingredient, you can continue where you left off of same ingredient.

During regular uninterrupted mixing, there's no issue with autocutoff.
 
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Until you know what percentage of flavoring and time required for infusion or aging it is not a good idea to mix large quantities. I had a Lava Cake I thought was fantastic after a short time that I forgot about and when I went to vape it after a couple of months it got so strong I had to cut it with VG/PG/Nic because it was just too damn strong.
 

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I also like Max VG and have made over 90% VG, but stay around 80/20 or 70/30. Some recipes just taste different with less PG. That is why you must perfect your recipes. I had a Sweet Pipe Tobacco that at first was nice at 60/40 but after a while I changed it to a 70/30 VG/PG and now I like it better. There are times I just get tired of a flavor and do not make it for a while so at max I make 60ML bottles although with my tobaccos I will make 120. 60 x 2 = 120
 
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For your future high-VG mixes, then you can always use distilled-water to thin it out and e.g. for use in RTAs. 5% distilled water is all you need max probably. Add it into your juice-calculator for future mixes instead of just dilluting your finished mixes, though that of course also can be done, but will lower flavor/nic/ratio some.
 
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