Hello. This is my first post, just joined today. Been reading the posts here and there seems to be a lot of friendly, experienced people here. I am getting very frustrated with my vivi nova. I am on day 13 of vaping after smoking a pack a day for 30 years. I am getting an airy draw and I have seem to have lost the taste from the juice. Any suggestions?
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Hi and welcome to ECF!! What ratio of PG/VG are you using? I love my mini vivi but if I get too high of VG it gets gurgly?? lol and airy.
You have to clean it out, rinse the wicks and dryburn and repeat every couple of tanks you put through it. As long as you do that the only problem you should have is constantly tipping it upside down to keep the wicks soaked.
btw vivi nova's rob flavor, just how they are.
btw vivi nova's rob flavor, just how they are.
Welcome. If you've been vaping the same flavor for 13 days you may have "vapor's tongue". Try changing favors and see what happens. Also drink lots of water. During this time your sense of taste and smell are going through all kinds of changes. As far as being airy, draw slowly.
Thank you Jennifer for your response. When I asked I was told 70/30 but I don't know which is vg and which is pg. I know they added sweetener per my request and the juice has become very thick. Could that be part of the problem, the thickness?
I have cleaned and changed heads. I was told to tighten as much as possible and push down the cap as far down as possible. Anything else I should know?
Heads come in various "ohms", meaning (heat) resistance levels. This depends on your battery/device. If you are using a variable voltage device (VV), than it doesn't matter which head you use, as you can simply tune in the voltage accordingly (voltage should generally be ohmsx2 +/- .2, so a 1.8 head should be fired at 3.4-3.8 volts). If your device is "locked in" to a particular voltage (commonly 3.7), than you need to buy the correlating resistance level (1.8 heads in that case).
I clean my Novas every 5 tanks of so if I'm using the same flavor, but clean it before switching flavors every time. If you do dry burn your heads, be sure to rinse them very well afterwards and let them air dry to avoid getting a nasty burnt taste (been there).
What gear are you using? And what ohm heads do you have handy? The ohm level should be stamped right on the Vivi Nova head, so you can just take a glance if you don't yet know.
Heres a useful video btw - A PBusardo Tutorial - Vivi Nova Cleaning & Rebuilding - YouTube
I clean my Novas every 5 tanks of so if I'm using the same flavor, but clean it before switching flavors every time. If you do dry burn your heads, be sure to rinse them very well afterwards and let them air dry to avoid getting a nasty burnt taste (been there).
What gear are you using? And what ohm heads do you have handy? The ohm level should be stamped right on the Vivi Nova head, so you can just take a glance if you don't yet know.
Heres a useful video btw - A PBusardo Tutorial - Vivi Nova Cleaning & Rebuilding - YouTube
take the bottom piece and screw on the head, leave the tank and top piece/drip tip off. do 4-5 2 sec burns so the coil glows and the black gunk burns off. rinse and repeat only do it 1-2 times and for 1 sec the 2nd time, put the tank and top piece on and fill.
I always found that the silica wicks in my vision mini novas always muted my ejuice flavors. After switching to cotton wicks those woes are a thing of the past. If you dont want to fuss with rebuilding or rewicking, try a bottom fed atomizer like a kanger evod.
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If you haven't cleaned or changed the wick and coil they start to get gunked up. Once they get that way the coils won't heat enough to completely vaporize the juice and the thicker part of the juice runs down the wick back into the tank. It will also give it a darker color. Darker juices are worse about it than the lighter colored ones.
When you dryburn it's after rinsing the head out with hot water and cleaning it. All your doing is firing the coil dry to burn off what gunk is still in the coil. You have to do it in short bursts or you will pop the coil and ruin it.
Thank you! I am using a ego c twist with a mini vivi nova. I have been using the 2.8 head
I'm not sure what the max volts on that battery is, but 2.8 is a pretty high resistance head. I'd go with the 1.8 or 2.4 personally, as you can achieve a better vape with the voltage available. You can buy cheap 3 packs of 1.8 heads at alot of vendors, or look into rebuilding the head yourself eventually. (Edit - Don't rebuild your own heads unless you have a device which can read ohms like the Provari or Vamo, or unless you buy an ohm reader. It is dangerous to throw a head onto a device without knowing the ohms.)
I assume the flavor loss is a combination of the gunk buildup from not cleaning it and maybe not having proper voltage for your 2.8head (which should be 5.4-5.8, a number which my Vision VV Spinner cannot achieve).
I assume the flavor loss is a combination of the gunk buildup from not cleaning it and maybe not having proper voltage for your 2.8head (which should be 5.4-5.8, a number which my Vision VV Spinner cannot achieve).
It's not a car transmission, you could damage the threads doing that. Also if you screw it in the battery too tight, you'll get less air flow. Tighten it just enough to make it stay put.
Using Vision Mini Vivi Novas for 6+ months without issue. Is it a Vision brand Vivi Nova?
On my Spinner and Twist I use:
1.8 ohms- 3.2- 4.2 volts
2.4 ohms- 4.0- 4.8 volts
2.8 ohms is generally too high ohms for the Twist
NEVER over tighten any thing on your battery as the battery post can get pushed down- only finger tight.
Best way ti use the Twist is to put a 1.8 ohms on your battery and slowly dial up until you hit your "sweet spot.
Washing cleans the wicks and tank while dry burn burns off the gunk on the element/ coil- dry burn @ 4 volts.
The Twist fires from 3.2 to 4.8 volts.
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I think there is a lot of hype behind the vivi's. I've had too much trouble with them. I've started using bottom coil tanks and it's night and day. I'm using mini kanger t3's and had zero issues. My coils are dying in 2 or 3 days with the vivi's and with the bottom coil tank It's been over a week with no issues. Haven't sucked up juice, haven't got a dry hit, haven't had a leak.
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