Too much nic. Can these juices be repaired?

[Boodle]

Three recipes I made last night are all too high in nic. They taste fine but make me a little lightheaded. I need to reduce the nic from 24 to 18. I'm using juice Me Up calc but don't know how to calculate goof fixing. Thanks, in advance.

10ml batches 70/30
2.4ml 100mg nic VG
5.2 ml PG
0.6 ml VG
18% flavoring

 

[Hoosier]

Add 3.33ml of PG/VG and 0.6ml of flavoring (18% of 3.33).

Math is pretty simple if you remember mg=mg/ml. So you have 240mg of nicotine (10ml*24mg/ml the "ml" cancels out, or 2.4ml*100mg/ml) and you want 18mg/ml so divide 240mg by 18mg/ml (yep, mg cancels out) for 13.33ml. You already have 10ml and 13.33-10=3.33.

That juicemeup calculator is pretty popular, but I've never used it. There may be a part that does this math quicker than my brain does.

 

[Lyndagayle]

Add 3.33ml of PG/VG and 0.6ml of flavoring (18% of 3.33).

Math is pretty simple if you remember mg=mg/ml. So you have 240mg of nicotine (10ml*24mg/ml the "ml" cancels out, or 2.4ml*100mg/ml) and you want 18mg/ml so divide 240mg by 18mg/ml (yep, mg cancels out) for 13.33ml. You already have 10ml and 13.33-10=3.33. That juicemeup calculator is pretty popular, but I've never used it. There may be a part that does this math quicker than my brain does.

WOW! I got lightheaded just reading this.

 

[Boodle]

Add 3.33ml of PG/VG and 0.6ml of flavoring (18% of 3.33).

Math is pretty simple if you remember mg=mg/ml. So you have 240mg of nicotine (10ml*24mg/ml the "ml" cancels out, or 2.4ml*100mg/ml) and you want 18mg/ml so divide 240mg by 18mg/ml (yep, mg cancels out) for 13.33ml. You already have 10ml and 13.33-10=3.33.

That juicemeup calculator is pretty popular, but I've never used it. There may be a part that does this math quicker than my brain does.

Just when I thought I couldn't do anything dumber, adding too much nic, you SAVED my fave juices from the drain. Thanks much

 

[Hoosier]

WOW! I got lightheaded just reading this.

You should swing by when I am at work sometime. (But there I put the tough stuff on a multi-core CPU to crunch on while I do the easy stuff on my ancient TI-85 calculator.) There are enough formulas sitting around on my desk to give me a headache.

 

[wizard10000]

WOW! I got lightheaded just reading this.

Let me give it a shot. Hoosier hooked me up when I first got started, maybe I can return the favor somewhat

You have 10ml of 24mg nic and want X amount of 18mg.

10ml of 24mg nicotine is 240mg of nic.

Now if you work it backwards, 240mg of nic ÷ 24mg strength = 10ml, which is what you have now.



But you want 18mg.

240mg ÷ 18mg = 13.3333333333333 ml.

Since you already have 10ml, you need 3.33ml of 0mg *something* to cut your juice to 18mg so you have to add 3.33ml of something to get your strength where you want it.

Now we're using 18% flavoring.

3.33 * 0.18 = 0.5994 (let's say 0.6 just for fun).

and

3.33 - 0.6 = 2.73

So to get to 18mg, you need -

1. The 10ml you already have

2. 2.73ml of 0mg something, and

3. 0.6mg of flavoring.

My numbers are a tiny bit different than Hoosier's and I think we can all see why, but either way will work just fine.

 

[Prettycat191]

Very helpful wizard, I do much better with lay man examples than word problems (which is funny considering I'm doing all of this in my College Algebra class right now, maybe that's why it's not clicking though; math overload ); which just make my head explode. After that explanation I can actually read Hoosier's post and understand what he was saying. Thanks for posting that.

 

[Prettycat191]

You should swing by when I am at work sometime. (But there I put the tough stuff on a multi-core CPU to crunch on while I do the easy stuff on my ancient TI-85 calculator.) There are enough formulas sitting around on my desk to give me a headache.

I had a job before where all I did was crunch numbers and math all day, I had constant headaches. Tylenol became my best friend lol.

 

[Hoosier]

Thanks wizard, you explained it perfectly. My numbers varied because of the flavoring deduct wasn't spelled out, it was an automatic assumption in my head, in my quickie post. (This is why I usually don't do well as a teacher, I assume too much.)

 

[simplyme82]

Wanted to revive this thread and piggy back...

I got some juice from a vendor that is 26MG nic... If I cut it with 0MG of something (PG or VG) but don't have the flavors, I'm assuming that I will lose out of the taste. Is this correct?

 

[Hoosier]

Wanted to revive this thread and piggy back...

I got some juice from a vendor that is 26MG nic... If I cut it with 0MG of something (PG or VG) but don't have the flavors, I'm assuming that I will lose out of the taste. Is this correct?

Yes. You will dilute the nic and the flavor at the same time. Just like adding water to Koolaid will lower the sugar per drink, but also lower the flavor.

 

[swedishfish]

You should swing by when I am at work sometime. (But there I put the tough stuff on a multi-core CPU to crunch on while I do the easy stuff on my ancient TI-85 calculator.) There are enough formulas sitting around on my desk to give me a headache.

Nice to know I'm not the only one using an old TI-85.

 

[simplyme82]

Yes. You will dilute the nic and the flavor at the same time. Just like adding water to Koolaid will lower the sugar per drink, but also lower the flavor.

Thanks! Anyway to save the flavor and lower the nic without actually having to add more flavor?

 

[Hoosier]

Thanks! Anyway to save the flavor and lower the nic without actually having to add more flavor?

Yep, use 0mg juice of the same flavor.

 

[Hoosier]

Nice to know I'm not the only one using an old TI-85.

Dang things are workhorses! Been using it since 82 and just wish I could remember how to do the programming everytime without digging out the manual.

Heck, I've got programs in it that I cannot even remember what they do anymore. Need to know minimum over over current protection for inductive loads per NEC? Square footage needed to completely separate oil and water based on incoming flow? Know those. Got one called SLOP that I cannot figure out what the heck it is doing, but it makes a cool looking graph based off a single number input.

 

[swedishfish]

Oh you mean that 500 page manual that came with it?

Yea, I look though mine too and it scares me that I used to know some of that stuff and now I don't. Sucks getting older.

 

[Hoosier]

.... Sucks getting older.

You are wiser than your fish shaped candy name would imply...

 

[simplyme82]

Yep, use 0mg juice of the same flavor.

LMAO! I'm such a dee! Thanks!