Seems this morning I'm gravitating to a Topside Lite
mod with an Advken Gorge
RDA, using a glass/ss drip
tip with wire mesh spit back guard. The juice in the flask tastes of unflavored Vg sweetness as it vapes at fifty watts on a 0.27 ohm coil.
"Ahhhhh, ...."
This is a $80 kit. I didn't pay but half that getting the mod on a deep cut sale. Not that I find cost of kit to matter too much in taste or enjoy-ability of vaping. Merely offering a bit of cost oversight for people if they like to buy similar.
Cotton for wicks? I paid $8 for a huge
bag of Muji
cotton (organic Japanese cotton) So if I spend half a cent per wick, that might break the bank. Wire for coils? On average I might spend $9 a spool to get hm, 600-800 simple build coils. Hm, a penny a coil at worst.
ETA: Checking I paid more than thought for cotton. It still doesn't add enough to matter. instead of half a cent it might be a cent a wick. My costs is still under $10 monthly.
Juice? I was finding it for $40 per liter jug. Who knows now what an unflavored base of 18 mg/ml nicotine juice will run cost wise? That would get me about 100 batches of 10 ml for squonking.
So it come to averaging $0.04 per ml of juice, unless I added flavorings. Flavorings added I could run $0.08 per ml. 1 liter of juice base can last me roughly 9 months. That's max VG though. Not sure how long a 50/50 blend will last, estimating a year.
My average daily juice use is likely 1.75 ml. Had thought I was doing 4 ml daily, rechecked and found I'm actually not. I have several mods in rotation use. That led me to inflate my use rate. Some use more or less, once averaged though I'm sure I'm not going over 2 ml daily. So I use $0.08 to $0.16 worth of juice daily as I use DIY. Averaging that at 30 days per month, $3.60.
Hardware cost $40, and hardware may last two years or three. It all depends on how it gets treated, how durable it was made. So it comes out to $1.11 monthly cost.
Consumables less batteries say $55 and figure one year's time, $4.58 monthly. Add another $25 every two years for batteries and it comes out to $6.66 monthly.
So I'm maybe spending $7.77 per month all total. Compare that to at least $1,000 monthly even for roll your own cigarettes. $990 in savings up front, priceless what it saves back end costs health wise.
Unless I note a cost is specific, I use averaged costs, which includes S&H.
