I just finished putting together what I hope will be a helpful service for the vaping community. It's an online DIY calculator with the ability to save to either a private or public recipe book. You can rate, comment and tag your favorite recipes.
I've seen a small number of similar sites but none that worked the way I thought they should so I built my own. I've just started my DIY journey and don't have a lot to contribute in the way of public recipes yet. That means we're starting with a single test recipe.
You should be aware that while I'm not expecting any problems, I'm asking you to beta test. If some crazy issue does present itself during this trial period, it's possible we would need to dump the recipes to correct it. Just wanted to make that clear so nobody would get too upset about losing anything at this point.
I will most certainly make another announcement once I know for sure that things are stable for anyone not wanting deal with that possibility.
I'm looking forward to the feedback!
http://www.wakenvape.com
Nice job.
Like that the calculator is simple. I use the simpler spreadsheets more than the overly complex spreadsheets when I need to figure out ratios.
One Suggestion: It would be awesome if it already had the most common ingredients already populated. I know there are a lot but it would be pretty easy to pull the data from the sites that sell the flavors since they already populate those fields on their sites. I'm just lazy and hate typing out the flavor every time.
Maybe an export function too?
Both good ideas, thank you.
I started one of these a while back but sorta like tsk138 I moved to a simple command line tool to help with the calculations. But, if you happen to grok Perl I wrote some scrapers that pulled out and cleaned up the flavors (i.e. make 'TFA Absinthe' and 'Absinthe TPA' both be 'Absinthe (TFA)'). IIRC it handled pages from Ecig Express, Flavor Art, and Wizard Labs... a list of 413 flavors the last time I compiled them a few months ago. Drop me a line if you want the old list or the code.
Also have a parser for ejuicemeup .rec files lying about somewhere.
In the calculator if you remove the only flavoring it will calculate the unflavored batch correctly, yet, displays the error:
> Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/20/d390957300/htdocs/hosting/www.wakenvape.com/eliquid_calculator/ajax/recipe.php on line 26
One problem I see when looking at recipe sites is there are tons of recipes posted with no feedback / confirmation that the recipe actually makes a vapable juice. I think this is an inherent problem due to the number of flavors and vendors compared to the number of DIYers... especially those who take recipes from a web site and actually try them.
That being said, I would definitely be willing to try recipes if there was an easy way to find ones that I have the ingredients for already. The easy solution would be to make it possible to filter recipes by flavor vendor. The more complicated solution would be to let us make a list of ingredients we have on hand and have the site give us recipes we have ingredients for (I've seen this done with cocktail recipes)..
I guess a less complicated solution would be if you made it so you could filter something like "contains xx1, or xx2, or xx3, or xx4...". I don't know if you can tell, but I know almost nothing about programming or web design.
You're right about the feedback. I suppose only a decent amount of users willing to participate could fix that.
I'll give some thought to the ingredients search. Aside from the fact I would need to restructure my database to run a search like that effeciently, the primary obstacle there would probably be the lack of standardized names. It would either get really messy by adding every ingredient name typed in, making the results less than optimal. Or forcing a fixed list of ingredients which would almost certainly not be exhaustive.
Good idea though, I will give it some thought.
Your vaping power chart is recommending wattages over 9. While it may be ok with certain dual-coil designs with the average setup this could mislead people to harming themselves.
edit: actually anything over 8.5 shouldn't be recommended by default.
Water/alcohol when used should be considered part of the target base imho. Anything else will lead to errors or confusion.
Such as the current error where its adding water to the total so that my 10ml batch with 10% water is coming to 11ml when I add all the ingredients by hand.
Yes, it should be included in the total. I'm not seeing this issue here at all. If you could save the recipe so I could see that would be great.
When posting such a recipe with water to any forum I would list it as 50/40/10 PG/VG/DW instead of 60/40 PG/VG with 10% distilled water. Which is what I meant by it should be considered part of the base. If given the choice VG should be static as it most affects the resulting experience.
Feedback
Color key on watt chart is very backwards..
Blue under watt Green target Red over
Ya, those colors don't lend themselves very well to the traditional power color scheme. I had a traditional color set on there originally but was playing with the site theme. I'll alter it to something more appropriate. Thank you.
edit: I put the original colors back up and maybe I'm being silly but the clash in colors made me cringe. I'll find another color set that makes more sense and doesn't make me want to tear my eyes out when I get a chance.