Can someone explain this to me?

[Panorama911]

Target is 70/30 pg/vg @ 24mg for 60ml with 25% 100 pg flavor. The nicotine base is 50/50 @ 48mg...Ok the question is according to this calculator it shows minus 3ml for PG dilutant ....to me no need to add any PG and subtract 3 from the base...makes no sense to me...?


Nicotine juice 48 mg (100% PG)
30 ml
31.08
50
PG dilutant
-3 ml
-3.1
-5
VG dilutant
18 ml
22.7
30
Total base
45 ml
50.68
75

15 ml flavor @ 100 PG
15
25
Totals
60 ml
65.68
100

 

[jandrew]

Well, in your description you mention 50:50 48mg base, but in your output it says 100% PG ... so perhaps you didn't enter the correct base mixture in the calculator?

 

[dannyv45]

Seems your basing your calculations on 100% pg nic base. Your PG based flavoring is additive to the total base solution. So your PG ratio is exceeding the final 70/30 base ratio. Increase your base ratio to 75/25 and it will work. If your using 50/50 NIC base it should work at 70/30.

 

[Isabelle49]

I'm a newbie at this, but trying to pull in some of my experience as an RN and drug mixing here.

Total Volume desired = 60 ml
Nic concentration desired = 24 mg/ml
Nic available = 48 mg/ml

Pg/vg + flavor = 50% of total volume = 30 ml. If you add 30 ml of the 48 mg/ml you will have a solution that is total volume of 60 ml and nic concentration will be 24 mg/ml.

Don't take this to the bank. I hope others chime in soon.

 

[Panorama911]

The base nic is 50/50, the extract is 100 pg

 

[dannyv45]

The base nic is 50/50, the extract is 100 pg

It should work then but you list "Nicotine juice 48 mg (100% PG)". Are you using the e-juice me up calculator? If so then set the NIC to 50/50

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[jandrew]

The base nic is 50/50, the extract is 100 pg

Yes, you say that, but it appears you told the calculator something different:

Nicotine juice 48 mg (100% PG)

and with the other parameters given you can't get a 70:30 blend (75:25 would be the closest) which is what the calculator is trying to tell you (you'd have to magically use -3ml PG to get your target).

If you really do have 50:50 nicbase then you want:

30ml of 50:50 48mg nic base
15ml of PG flavoring
12ml of plain PG
3ml of plain VG

for a 60ml 24mg 70:30 final mix with 25% PG flavoring.

 

[Panorama911]

It should work then but you list "Nicotine juice 48 mg (100% PG)". Are you using the e-juice me up calculator? If so then set the NIC to 50/50

OH shoot I just saw that, how it copied 100 pg is a mystery, supposed to be 50/50

....I will run it again

 

[Panorama911]

OK I see the error, my bad...recipe now makes sense, thank you all!!

 

[93gc40]

Negatives in any part of a recipe tells you that something about the recipe is NOT possible.. ie nic ratio or PG/VG ratio or flavor ratio. They typically default to the nic %, so what the negitive says that in order to maintain that dosage you would need to remove some ingredients. And since you cant remove ingredients and still maintain the other ratios, you need to adjust the recipe so that all ingredients are positive.

 

[Isabelle49]

I think imma leave the mixin to someone else!