ejuice me up calculator....need some help

[MT Pockets]

I know a lot of the members use this calculator and swear by it, but for the life of me I can't get past the error for ending up with a negitive number. It doesn't matter if I start with 100% pg or vg or a 50/50 mix. I downloaded the program last evening and messed around with it all evening. Even when I would put 100% pg at lets say 18mg the error comes up and tells me I need to add more pg!? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Thompson]

Could you maybe take a screenshot of the app open & post it?

 

[t8kiteasy]

I know a lot of the members use this calculator and swear by it, but for the life of me I can't get past the error for ending up with a negitive number. It doesn't matter if I start with 100% pg or vg or a 50/50 mix. I downloaded the program last evening and messed around with it all evening. Even when I would put 100% pg at lets say 18mg the error comes up and tells me I need to add more pg!? Any help would be appreciated.

I found the same problem with that one.

 

[MT Pockets]

Ok this is what I get

 

[MT Pockets]

Here is a better image

 

[r77r7r]

Still can't read it.

 

[purelyscientific]

Ok, this is a little hard to explain. But I will do my best.

You Are going for a 50/50 blend. Lets say hypothetically you had a flavor which was best at 60% which is PG based. You will NOT be able to make a blend under 60/40 even if your nic is VG based.
Ok, that's the explanation. Now how you solve your problem-

You either need to-
A. Lower your target nic strength
or B. Add less flavoring..

Wait...I just realized your pic says you are using 50/50 18mg/mL nicotine?! Is that correct?

If you add something to 18mg nic then it cuts it down. So your final product can NOT be 18mg/mL no matter what you do. Sorry.

 

[graffinfected]

you might be entering the wrong nic percentages at the top.. have you tried adding a little more PG after the error pops up?.

for some reason i feel like your putting 50/50 at the top because its what you want your target percentages to be at.

 

[MT Pockets]

Ok, I was just playing with the calc. again. I got it to work with 100% pg @ 36mg
Target mg @ 18 to make 30ml
added 3 flavors totaling 20%
target mix of 75pg 25vg. I get the error only if I try to get a 60/40 ratio.
I don't know why I couldn't get this last night?

 

[purelyscientific]

Dude, don't hurt yourself. You NEED to know what you are working with and not just input whatever numbers you want.
Look at your bottle of nicotine. Does it say 3.6%? I'm not trying to be an ...... or anything. I just don't want to see you OD.

 

[r77r7r]

Lots of other calcs out there-
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/169390-ejuice-calculator-roundup.html

 

[MT Pockets]

Lol, thanks for your concern I was just trying to get the calc. to work. I do intend to start mixing my own juice and wanted to find a calc. that I felt comfortable with. I usually vape 18mg and either 60/40 or 70/30, just wanted to see what base to start with. It looks like this will work well.

 

[purelyscientific]

Ahhh, I see. I was sitting there wondering what the hell you were doing changing your nicotine base strength Lol
You had me freaking out for a minute.
Now that you tell me you were just playing around with it before you even buy any- it makes sense. haha

The higher your nicotine strength the less you have to add to get your desired strength. So that means if it is PG based you can make the juice higher VG, because the nic is PG and you are adding less of it.

I hope that makes sense.

I recommend you buy the 48mg/mL or the 60mg/mL nicotine base. Be very careful though. Nicotine is highly poisonous even to us guys with high tolerances.

If you tell me your tolerance level(what mg you vape/want to vape) and what ratio range you would like to vape I can tell you what strength nicotine you should use to give you the most ratio freedom and how much PG and VG you will need.

I can also show you how to use the calculator.
Feel free to pm me.

 

[MT Pockets]

I'm ready to go!! Can't wait to get my stuff! I just ordered some 36mg. nic, pg, and vg along with a few flavors. I usually vape 16 or 18 mg @ 70/30 or 60/40 so the 36mg will work fine. Ordered enough to make a few bottles and if needed I can order stronger next time. Thanks for the help. Oh, by the way, very cool avatar!

 

[purelyscientific]

Thanks bud, goodluck.

 

[breaktru]

The higher the Base Nic strength and w/ a 50/50 blend, the more room to swing your Target PG/VG ratio.
Most flavoring is PG base. Adding Flavoring adds PG to the mix.

BTW: eJuice Me Up version 12.0.0.0 has just been release w/ 2 more flavoring lines. Now 7 Flavors can be added.

 

[Racehorse]

I can also show you how to use the calculator.
Feel free to pm me.

I think I understand now what the OP was saying. Here's an example and perhaps I am doing it wrong, so I will post a screen shot:

Hitting Calculate, if not using ANY PG except for flavorings, gives an error message: "you need to add more PG, can't use a negative number"

In the example here, let's say I want to make a 3ml test batch

My nic is 100% VG nic in 36mg, and I want to make 12mg juice

Juice will be as close to 100% VG as possible, i.e, except for flavoring, which is PG

I will use 5% of each flavor, and there are 2 flavors (gummy bear and tutti fruiti, 5% each)

The calculator gives error messages every single time unless I am not filling it out right so here is the screen shot so you can tell me if I'm doing it right:

I used imageshack. For some reason ECF won't take the upload---if bigger is needed here is the link:
ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting

hearing that bell go off and the error messages every time is kinda annoying. The ONLY way to make the error msg. go away is not to input the water at all.

Doesn't matter whether you increase the final ml amount from 3ml to 5ml to 10ml though.
And it also doesn't seem to matter if you increase the water %....just putting it in will generate the error message. The only way to make that go away is not to put the water % in at all.

Distilled water would be used to dilute it a bit, since VG is thick.

 

[Road_House]

Try reducing one of the flavors to 4%.

What I think is happening is your total for everything is over 100%

90 vg
10pg
1 water

101% so the calculator is not able to compute

 

[JD1]

Add your non vg numbers and enter that into the target pg box. The calculator will automatically figure the vg ratio and when you hit calculate it'll work. In the example given, the total percents of non vg items is 11.

Edit. The above gives you the lowest pg you can use. If you go to play around with the pg/vg ratio, you can see that you have to have a certain amount of vg because your nic is vg. If you wanted to make a high pg juice, you would enter that percent of vg into the target vg box and that would calculate the highest percent of pg you could use. Any percent of pg between the lowest and highest will work.

If I didn't make that clear, post back and I'll try to explain better. Good luck and vape on.

 

[HotRod19579]

I think I understand now what the OP was saying. Here's an example and perhaps I am doing it wrong, so I will post a screen shot:

Hitting Calculate, if not using ANY PG except for flavorings, gives an error message: "you need to add more PG, can't use a negative number"

In the example here, let's say I want to make a 3ml test batch

My nic is 100% VG nic in 36mg, and I want to make 12mg juice

Juice will be as close to 100% VG as possible, i.e, except for flavoring, which is PG

I will use 5% of each flavor, and there are 2 flavors (gummy bear and tutti fruiti, 5% each)

The calculator gives error messages every single time unless I am not filling it out right so here is the screen shot so you can tell me if I'm doing it right:

I used imageshack. For some reason ECF won't take the upload---if bigger is needed here is the link:
ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting

hearing that bell go off and the error messages every time is kinda annoying. The ONLY way to make the error msg. go away is not to input the water at all.

Doesn't matter whether you increase the final ml amount from 3ml to 5ml to 10ml though.
And it also doesn't seem to matter if you increase the water %....just putting it in will generate the error message. The only way to make that go away is not to put the water % in at all.

Distilled water would be used to dilute it a bit, since VG is thick.

To resolve the issue in your example use 10.66 for your "Target PG" value.

The problem you are experiencing is one of the reasons that this calculator was created: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/424235-new-calculator-try.html
Do a "File->Save" on your example recipe. Install the calculator at the link above and after launching the new calculator import the recipe you saved (Tools->Import from eJucieMeUp).