Need help figuring out nicotine ratio of this diluted Halo juice(?)

[HighlanderNorth]

The 4 Halo juices I just got in are all 24mg/ml nicotine ratio, and I use 12mg/ml, plus since they are strong tasting I thought I could get away with diluting one of them(Freedom juice) with diluent. So I adjusted it to taste after adding diluent, and what I ended up with is a juice that started out as 24mg/ml, and I added 33 drops of that(Freedom Juice), with 9 drop of PG and 4 drops of VG.

So the total is 33 drops of 24mg/ml e-liquid to 13 drops diluent. I'm "guessing" that its now down to around 15mg/ml..... Is that correct?

It still tastes good and can be best describes as Freedom juice light blend..

 

[Spazmelda]

Did you use the same dropper for all of the liquids?

Drops are not really an accurate measure of volume, and can vary based on the dropper used and the viscosity of the liquid.

If you assume the drops were the same volume (which they probably weren't, but anyway...) my math works out to about 17 mg/ml. Without 'calibrating' your droppers to figure out the volume of a drop, that's just a rough guesstimate. Unless you are closely watching you nic intake, it's probably close enough. If you start to experience nic overdose vape less or dilute more.

 

[Spazmelda]

If you wanted to get it very close to 12 mg/ml, and you don't have accurate measuring tools, you could try this...

Take a dropper and make a mark on the outside with tape or a sharpie. Suck up 1 'volume' of your halo juice and put in in a clean bottle. Then suck up the same volume of your diluent (PG/VG mix). That would give you a half and half mix that would be very close to 12 mg/ml.

 

[MoGo]

My math may be wrong so verify it, but wouldn't that be 17 mg/ml. My math was done this way:

2.4% of 33 drops is nicotine or 0.792 drops. 0.792/(33 original drops + 13 new diluent drops) = 1.7% or 17 mg/ml. If this is wrong let me know so I don't screw up my own calculations while DIYing.

 

[HighlanderNorth]

Did you use the same dropper for all of the liquids?

Drops are not really an accurate measure of volume, and can vary based on the dropper used and the viscosity of the liquid.

If you assume the drops were the same volume (which they probably weren't, but anyway...) my math works out to about 17 mg/ml. Without 'calibrating' your droppers to figure out the volume of a drop, that's just a rough guesstimate. Unless you are closely watching you nic intake, it's probably close enough. If you start to experience nic overdose vape less or dilute more.

Yeah I shouldve mentioned that, and I wrongly assumed that it would be standard practice to use the same dropper, so everyone would know that I too used the same dropper.

You are right, in that there are many different "drop sizes" depending on the drip tip, or the dropper, but I always use the same dropper to mix ALL ingredients.

 

[HighlanderNorth]

If you wanted to get it very close to 12 mg/ml, and you don't have accurate measuring tools, you could try this...

Take a dropper and make a mark on the outside with tape or a sharpie. Suck up 1 'volume' of your halo juice and put in in a clean bottle. Then suck up the same volume of your diluent (PG/VG mix). That would give you a half and half mix that would be very close to 12 mg/ml.

Ideally that is exactly what I wouldve liked to do, and I tried a 50/50 mix, but even then I knew the flavor would be very weak at that ratio of 50% e-liquid and 50% unflavored diluent, so I gradually added more and more e-liquid til I got to the ratio I mentioned in the OP, which is right at the edge of acceptable flavor strength.