I'm not a cloud chaser by any means, but I've been curious if there's a way to actually quantify the amount of vapor produced by an atty, and I think I've figured out a fairly easy (although somewhat expensive) way to do it.
1. Weigh complete atomizer on digital scale with drip tip.
2. Take a puff
3. Weigh complete atomizer again
4. Subtract second weight from original weight to get an accurate measurement of the juice consumed by your puff.
This could also be used to determine how dense the vapor is, by comparing juice consumed vs duration of puff, the more juice consumed per second, for example, would mean the vapor is more dense even if overall juice consumption was lower (because of a smaller hit due to lung size) which would give a more accurate representation of the atty's vapor production, instead of the size of a person's lungs.
I was all ready to experiment, then I realized a scale with accuracy down to a thousands of a gram is required. Mine only goes down to hundredths so there was no accuracy in my readings at all. I checked around quickly online and scales with that level of accuracy are a few hundred bucks, so not something that I can justify buying for myself.
My second thought was to take 10 puffs and divide the difference in weight by 10 to get an average juice per puff, but even then my accuracy levels are too low to really do anything with.
I just wanted to put the method out there if others have the proper scale, or have more motivation to put a number on their vapor production, maybe shops that do cloud competitions? Not sure how they judge those now. Either way, thanks for taking a look, maybe someone will get some use out of it.
ETA:
I'm not sure if this is more a general vaping concern or more specific to rebuilders, but I put it in the RBA section because I figured rebuilders are likely the only ones willing to go through the trouble of quantifying their vapor production, if any mods think it would be more appropriate in general feel free to move it.
1. Weigh complete atomizer on digital scale with drip tip.
2. Take a puff
3. Weigh complete atomizer again
4. Subtract second weight from original weight to get an accurate measurement of the juice consumed by your puff.
This could also be used to determine how dense the vapor is, by comparing juice consumed vs duration of puff, the more juice consumed per second, for example, would mean the vapor is more dense even if overall juice consumption was lower (because of a smaller hit due to lung size) which would give a more accurate representation of the atty's vapor production, instead of the size of a person's lungs.
I was all ready to experiment, then I realized a scale with accuracy down to a thousands of a gram is required. Mine only goes down to hundredths so there was no accuracy in my readings at all. I checked around quickly online and scales with that level of accuracy are a few hundred bucks, so not something that I can justify buying for myself.
My second thought was to take 10 puffs and divide the difference in weight by 10 to get an average juice per puff, but even then my accuracy levels are too low to really do anything with.
I just wanted to put the method out there if others have the proper scale, or have more motivation to put a number on their vapor production, maybe shops that do cloud competitions? Not sure how they judge those now. Either way, thanks for taking a look, maybe someone will get some use out of it.
ETA:
I'm not sure if this is more a general vaping concern or more specific to rebuilders, but I put it in the RBA section because I figured rebuilders are likely the only ones willing to go through the trouble of quantifying their vapor production, if any mods think it would be more appropriate in general feel free to move it.
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