How to find my "sweet spot"?

[Kcoc]

I just upgraded to a innokin svd and I need help finding my sweet spot. I am using suicide bunny mothers milk juice and vaping at a voltage of 4.4. This produces a good amount of vapor but the flavor is a little muted. How do you guys find your sweet spot. Do you change voltage or watts?

 

[novamatt]

You can go either way. Most experienced vapers recommend a setting around 8 watts if using wattage, or your atomizer's resistance in ohms plus 2 for voltage (so a 1.8ohm atty vapes nicely at about 3.8 volts), which puts you around the same place. Those settings work well for me.

So start there, and adjust up or down a little bit every once in a while until you get a feel for what you like. You may find that you like different things at different times, too - sometimes I want a bigger hit and turn it up to 10w or so, and sometimes I want it to be more mellow and I knock it down to 6.5ish.

 

[Dampmaskin]

In this context, voltage and power (watts) are two sides of the same coin. Adjust one, and the other will follow as a matter of course.

 

[Karbomb]

You can also experiment with different types of clearomizers and atomizers. Some juices I prefer in a tank. Some I prefer to drip in an atomizer.

I can also be really picky about airflow. Therefore I really enjoy a tank with an adjustable airflow.

 

[KerryK]

Agree with airflow, I must have control! So many juices deliver better with just some fine tuning on airflow alone.

I also break in new stuff at lower settings to start, I hot rinse all my new wicks let them dry, prime them before I put them in a tank and then ease them in at lower settings before I start cranking them up.

My set ups have airflow controls, and I use a vv/vw device and bottom coil tanks primarily. So many factors, PGvVG ratio's, Nic levels...

In another thread we were talking about pg/vg ratios, I agree with the 50/50 rule to start in small bottles, try a couple of bottles at different ratios and see what works best for your set ups.

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

Whether you adjust via volts or adjust via watts, you are essentially doing the same thing. You are adjusting the power output up or down, just in different ways. With volts, you are simply adjusting the power you device puts out to the atomizer manually. With watts, you are still adjusting the power it outputs, however the device detects the resistance of your atomizer and adjusts the voltage in accordance with that resistance. Watts is just a calculation between resistance (ohms) and volts. When you adjust by volts, it's like driving a stick shift, where you need to adjust the gears according to how fast you are going yourself. When you adjust by watts, it's like driving a manual, where the car switches gears itself after detecting how fast you are going. Once you find a "sweet spot" in watts, you can just leave it at that setting, and when you switch the atomizer and it has a different resistance, your device sets itself to that same sweet spot without you needing to readjust.