New to DIY, Flavor to Base?

[4WLO]

Hi, I want to start mixing my own liquid. Mostly because I want an unflavored day in day out vape but I do think every now and then I might want to have a flavor I control. I plan on mixing an unflavored liquid(base) to 50/50/6mg. This much I am confident in doing.
My questions start at adding a flavor to my base. The calculators I've seen give you a recipe starting from scratch or maybe I haven't figure out how to put the numbers in using a premade base.
OK, Let's say I want to make 10ml of flavored liquid with my premade base. And let's say I know I want to use a flavor/flavors at 8%.
I would...
Measure out 9.2ml of base(50/50/6mg) (92%)
Add .8ml of flavor(PG) (8%)
or
Measure out 9.2ml of base(50/50/6mg) (92%)
Add .5ml of flavor(PG) (5%)
Add .3ml of flavor(PG) (3%)

So adding this flavor to my base will lower my nic% and VG%, right? Will it even be noticeable in the small amounts I will be adding flavor to?
Would this be the best way to add flavor to a base?

Thanks,
4WLO

 

[jamie419]

Do you have an android phone?

 

[LoveVanilla]

Is your "premade base" close to your target level or is it something you need to dilute?

If your base is at the strength you intend to vape, then just enter 0 (i.e. zero) as the "Target Nicotine Level", and use your base as if it were straight VG/PG. Of course your base strength will be slightly diluted by flavor(s) but generally not of great significant for personal consumption.

OTH, if your base is 18mg/ml and you want to vape at 12mg/ml, you'll need to enter these values as Base and Target Nicotine Level. And you will need additional VG/PG to dilute your base.

I don't like installable software so I use this web-based calculator, DIY Simple E-Liquid (E-Juice) Recipe Calculator

 

[Spazmelda]

Hi, I want to start mixing my own liquid. Mostly because I want an unflavored day in day out vape but I do think every now and then I might want to have a flavor I control. I plan on mixing an unflavored liquid(base) to 50/50/6mg. This much I am confident in doing.
My questions start at adding a flavor to my base. The calculators I've seen give you a recipe starting from scratch or maybe I haven't figure out how to put the numbers in using a premade base.
OK, Let's say I want to make 10ml of flavored liquid with my premade base. And let's say I know I want to use a flavor/flavors at 8%.
I would...
Measure out 9.2ml of base(50/50/6mg) (92%)
Add .8ml of flavor(PG) (8%)
or
Measure out 9.2ml of base(50/50/6mg) (92%)
Add .5ml of flavor(PG) (5%)
Add .3ml of flavor(PG) (3%)

So adding this flavor to my base will lower my nic% and VG%, right? Will it even be noticeable in the small amounts I will be adding flavor to?
Would this be the best way to add flavor to a base?

Thanks,
4WLO

This will work. It will lower your nicotine down to about 5.5.

You can use a liquid calculator for that, but the math is pretty easy to do with just a regular calculator.

If you have 9.2 ml of 6 mg/ml then you have 9.2ml * 6mg/ml = 55.2 mg of nicotine all together. Then if you add .8 ml of flavors you now have 55.2 mg of nicotine in 10 ml, so 55.2mg/10ml = 5.52 mg/ml.

So you can seem even if you test a couple of drops and decide that 8% flavor isn't enough and want to add some more! you'd just divide total nicotine (55.2 mg) by the new volume of juice to get the new nicotine volume.

 

[4WLO]

Thanks for the replies.

My "premade base" is going to be my unflavored vape liquid. I wanted to add flavors to it whenever I wanted to have/try/test flavors. It will be made from diluting down 24mg PG nic liquid.

Putting a 0 in the nic target box solved my issue with the calculators. I was putting a 6 in the nic liquid box and a 6 in the target box and it was giving me negative numbers in my recipe.

,4WLO

 

[rowdyplace]

Here is my easy way:

20 drops of base (50/50-1.2%)

19 drops base and 1 drop flavoring = 5%
18 drops base and 2 drops flavoring = 10%
17 drops base and 3 drops flavoring = 15%

Use the same size drops of base and flavorings.

Double the starting amount to adjust the percentages
(39 drops base and 1 drop flavoring = 2.5%)

YMMV...