The most important test to do now ...
There is one test that to me is the most important. It can be done without a lab, but it would be a bit boring to carry out especially without setting up a pump as described below.
To use a brand new atomiser, cleaned out carefuly and preferably photographed.
Vape on this for the equivalent of say 1 week. A motorised pump with intermittent timer to do the vaping would be ideal (say one 2 second puff every 20 seconds) - using a flexible plastic tube connecting the air pump to the atomiser. For a person to do the puffs equivalent to 2 weeks vaping would be pretty boring.
Oh, but the carts would need refilling at intervals too ... Maybe 10 cartridge fills would be enough for a reasonable determination of result. A cart would last perhaps 40 puffs or 40 x 20 seconds = about 12 minutes. So about 2 hours of automatic puffing.
The juice should be VG and distilled water and nothing else. Ideally, the air wold be filtered too but a room with no other vaping, cooking etc could be considered ok.
The test is to see if any deposits are formed on the heater coil. There should be none; that, to me at least, would prove VG as safe in vaping juice. And that the deposits are are from colors and flavours and water minerals.
If there is a deposit, VG might still be safe, but the deposit would require explanation and the process looked at in more detail.
There is one test that to me is the most important. It can be done without a lab, but it would be a bit boring to carry out especially without setting up a pump as described below.
To use a brand new atomiser, cleaned out carefuly and preferably photographed.
Vape on this for the equivalent of say 1 week. A motorised pump with intermittent timer to do the vaping would be ideal (say one 2 second puff every 20 seconds) - using a flexible plastic tube connecting the air pump to the atomiser. For a person to do the puffs equivalent to 2 weeks vaping would be pretty boring.
Oh, but the carts would need refilling at intervals too ... Maybe 10 cartridge fills would be enough for a reasonable determination of result. A cart would last perhaps 40 puffs or 40 x 20 seconds = about 12 minutes. So about 2 hours of automatic puffing.
The juice should be VG and distilled water and nothing else. Ideally, the air wold be filtered too but a room with no other vaping, cooking etc could be considered ok.
The test is to see if any deposits are formed on the heater coil. There should be none; that, to me at least, would prove VG as safe in vaping juice. And that the deposits are are from colors and flavours and water minerals.
If there is a deposit, VG might still be safe, but the deposit would require explanation and the process looked at in more detail.
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