Question regarding VG/PG

[smcolley]

I've been mixing my own liquid for about a month now and loving it. I vape a couple of MTL RTA's so my mixes are 50/50. I've got a sub ohm tank on its way so making some higher VG liquids for it. My question is whether i just go straight to max VG or 70/30? Does it make much of a difference in a sub ohm tank? Also, is there a particular reason I can't use higher VG mixes in my MTL tanks? I don't understand the wicking argument if it'll be the same type of cotton in both tanks. Thanks

 

[Ment]

I've settled on 70-80 vg in all my sub-ohm setups, but it's all down to personal preference, coiling and wicking styles.

In sub-ohm tanks you need specialist cotton but you have to find the balance between the coil, wick and juice to ensure adequate wicking without overdoing it so it spits.

Muji with 50/50 seems to be the preference, but I see no reason why you couldn't use 80vg juice in a MTL setup with better cotton. Perhaps there are wicking issues with such small coils.

 

[eightbitraptor]

It’s more to do with the juice channels in most mtl RTA’s. Sometimes the juice channels are small and designed for thinner viscosity liquids and the vacuum doesn’t work properly with thicker liquids. Others are fine. It’s very tank dependant. I can run 100% vg in my hastur mtl for instance but anything thicker than 50/50 in a KFL is much more temperamental.

 

[Simon G]

I've been mixing my own liquid for about a month now and loving it. I vape a couple of MTL RTA's so my mixes are 50/50. I've got a sub ohm tank on its way so making some higher VG liquids for it. My question is whether i just go straight to max VG or 70/30? Does it make much of a difference in a sub ohm tank? Also, is there a particular reason I can't use higher VG mixes in my MTL tanks? I don't understand the wicking argument if it'll be the same type of cotton in both tanks. Thanks

It's not about it being 'the same type of cotton' ... it's about in 'inlet' size, seriously I tried Bunker with my naturevape coils and it just doesn't wick though the little holes either side of the coil. ... at all, it was pretty much instant dry hit after a couple of puffs. ... and most MTL vapers want a good throat hit too which you don't get with 70% VG (well not enough for me anyway) ... High VG just isn't enough of a 'realistic' smoking experience for me either.

 

[smcolley]

Cheers, that makes more sense then. Can't imagine il deviate much from MTL but got the kensei on the cheap so thought i'd give it a go for the occasional DTL. Il stick to the 50/50s for MTL then as it does the trick for me

 

[b road blaster]

TBH unless your wanting bigger clouds there is no reason why you can't just use your 50/50 in a sub-tank
i use 50/50 in everything i can't see the point in making 2 different ratios of the same juice.

 

[smcolley]

TBH unless your wanting bigger clouds there is no reason why you can't just use your 50/50 in a sub-tank
i use 50/50 in everything i can't see the point in making 2 different ratios of the same juice.

I tried one of my 50/50s on a sub ohm stock coil tank and it was harsh on my throat so i'll probably just make a batch of 70/30s to be on the safe side

 

[b road blaster]

I tried one of my 50/50s on a sub ohm stock coil tank and it was harsh on my throat so i'll probably just make a batch of 70/30s to be on the safe side

What strength nic do you vape at ?????
as tbh other than bigger clouds i really can't tell much (if any) between using 50/50 or 80/20 on throat hit.
But if your using a high nic juice then yes the difference between mtl or dtl can rip your throat hard
especially if your going from a say 1.8 coil for mtl then a 0.5 in your sub tank
In short it may not be the vg level it may be the nic level and sub ohm coil thats doing your throat in.

 

[ZT]

TBH unless your wanting bigger clouds there is no reason why you can't just use your 50/50 in a sub-tank
i use 50/50 in everything i can't see the point in making 2 different ratios of the same juice.

man speaks the troof


especially as if you make a higher VG version of the same juice .. without careful balancing - its never going to taste exactly the same anyway ... PG carries flavour a LOT better than VG and also .. VG is incredibly sweet ... a higher VG version of a juice thats a straight copy with more VG will always be sweeter for a start - normally far too sweet for me TBH

 

[eyeball kid]

To be honest as the guy's have said. Pushing up the vg is where issue's begin so why bother. The beauty of 50/50 is the flavour delivery, throat hit and no fussy wicking. If it's really to harsh then maybe go up to 60vg but above that you get into the frustrating world of balancing coil size and ohms against wicking density and juice flow. Also known as sacrificing ease and flavour for clouds. Frikin nightmare that's best avoided.