DIY'ing and questions about certain flavors/recipes at Sub ohms (25+ watts)

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OperationMove

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Does anyone here vape sub ohms regularly? I'm sure they do that's a rhetorical question. Regardless, I am a 25-40 watt vaper normally (about 0.63Ω at work and Ω0.4 at home ) and I normally use around 6mg nic and mix around 20/80VG so I know it's not the high PG giving it a hard kick. Now to my question... do you sub ohm vapers cut down your recipes that you find on the web that you want to try? By how much on average? Half? More? I am already experimenting to answer my own question to what suits me (and possibly help out the community) but I figured I'd poll the crowd anyways.

It seems like most flavors are far too harsh at recommended %'s, and even when I drop them 2-3% they tear my throat up. My normal % of flavoring varies from about 12-16% most times for multiple flavors, and I don't too often go over 10% for single flavors. Most flavors that I've found on forums/reddit/here I have had to drop at least 4% overall flavoring for it to not feel harsh and overpowering. The only one I can take at a high % is OSDIY blue slush/pineapple mix at 20%. That one is smooth like butter. I understand sub ohm'ing too low ruins flavor but I believe I've found a sweet spot, but I'm a good enough builder, and I get fantastic flavor on some DIY juices (and 99% of vendor juices I like) so it's not that it's getting too hot and warping the taste, I know that much.

I just figured I'd ask to see what sort of response I get. Thanks in advance guys! No trolls please.
 
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Kr3wsk8er

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I am a subohmer rocking anywhere from a .3 to a .6 depending on my mood and what I want to build, for what device. I also am a DIYer, and have found it varies so much from vendor to vendor, I tweak all recipes I find, I start off low, and go up from there to find what is my preference. As a bare minimum, I will start any recipe I am trying out for the first time at 2-3% per flavor as a start off and increase as needed regardless of any recommendations. Now it's interesting you say that you feel a "hard kick: or hard throat hit, even with low pg based recipes, I am curious what vendor you get your flavoring from?
 

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Many of the flavorings I use are only good at 3-5% for my normal 1.5Ω -.2.5Ω vaping. I've tried sub ohm a few times, different coils, number of coils, air flow, RDAs, etc but never liked what it did to my mixes. I still use some 0.8Ω - 1.0Ω coils when dripping with decent results.

Your problem may be in getting the percentage of flavoring low enough, sub ohm is using double or triple the eliquid for each puff. It would seem you might need to dilute the flavorings so you are only inhaling 1/2 or 1/3 as much flavorings with each puff. Similar to what you do with the nicotine level to keep from bouncing off the walls...:)
 
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