Help with Diy Ejuice, I'm a noob

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N8Str8V8p

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Ok so i ordered my materials need for DIY but I dont understand the calculators. i bought an easy 50/50 mix of pg vg. Also 24mg of nic. the calculator says i would put 7.5 ml of the pg nic and then 1.5 of the pg/vg mix. is this correct? it just seems like a lot of the nic and not much of the non nic. This cant be right. i am trying for 18 strength. Any assistance would be appreciated and please add what calc you are using.
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i forgot to mention the 24 nic is in a pg base
and i didnt buy sweetener. will i need that?

 
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That would be right for 18mg nicotine target level with the assumption that you are inputting 10% flavoring. (Since "mg" is shorthand for "mg/ml" it's important to know how much, ml's, you're planning on making.)

If you do the double check math and include the designations 7.5ml * 24mg/ml = 180mg (The ml below the / is cancelled by the ml of the 7.5 so you just end up with mg's) If your total volume of finished liquid is 10ml and it has 180mg's of nicotine then 180mg / 10ml = 18mg/ml. So that checks. You posted 7.5ml and 1.5ml which adds up to 9ml and 10% flavoring in a 10ml bottle is 1ml. 9ml + 1ml = 10ml which is why I based my assumption that you were making 10ml at 10% flavoring as it makes sense with the 180mg of nicotine.

If you want to figure your final PG/VG ratio just take your PG's and add them up and compare to the VG. 7.5ml of PG nic, (half of the 1.5ml PG/VG since it is 50/50) 0.75ml of base, and 1ml of flavoring for 9.25ml PG and 0.75ml of VG for a final 92.5/7.5 PG/VG ratio. (10ml is the final total so it is a simple matter of shifting the decimal one place.)

You'll have to make it and tell me if it needs to be sweeter before I'd have a clue as to if it needed sweetener, but if it seems to need to be sweeter to you, I'll bet you can make that call without me.

What are you making? Be sure to report back what you discovered with your first mix.
 

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I don't use a calc.

I just keep it super simple and buy 36mg nic in pg base, and mix it 50/50 with vg. The result is 18mg 50/50 juice (unflavored)
Then I use a syringe to put 10% of my target amount of flavoring in a bottle and add the remaining 90% worth of juice, shake, and vape.

Example:

20ml batch:
2ml flavoring
9ml 36mg in pg
9ml vg
 
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