It's not even a dead horse... THE VIVI NOVA! A WAAA?!

[Rocketpunk]

Dude. Dude.

Sit down with me. Let's talk about this. This thing called the ViVi Nova.

I came from a clearo to cartos to dripping to this.

I loathe clearos. I don't care, don't try to preach to me, in my opinion they suck. All of them, all versions. They work for about a week, then they gunk up and become un-vapable. My buddy put one on his Kgo VV at 4.5 and it DESTROYED his BRAND NEW clearo. Nope. Moving on.

I switched to cartos. Disgusting. Maybe not for all, but for me, un-vapable. My chosen favorite juice is butterscotch, and for some reason that's a hard flavor to "vape" outside of dripping.

Until NOW!

Holy freakin' crap, guys, I was SO ready to dismiss the ViVi Nova as just another glorified clearomizer. And maybe it even is. But dang, doo, it WORKS. It really works. It does what it's supposed to do! I can TASTE MAH juice!!

No more dripping at work! No more spilling juice on my hands, or using Q-tips and a constant supply of paper napkins! Fill and forget, for once, finally! IT WORKS!

Guys, I was TOTALLY on the fence with this thing. Then I got it. I tried it. IT. WORKS.

Stop reading this, get off the fence, and BUY ONE! Buy two! Buy three!! I'm definitely buying more.

Wow. Just... Wow.

 

[SpicyMcHaggis]

I have like ten of them. I'm a believer.

 

[ZooKansas]

Haha...welcome! Felt the same way the minute I started vaping on my first one. Wait until you start getting into rebuilding the heads etc. Super fun and many possibilities.

 

[Rocketpunk]

I'm currently on a campaign to convince all of my coworker vapers (and we got a lot of 'em) to try this thing. Granted, it may not work ALL of the time, but it did for me. And I was dead-set against it. Wow.

Heh.

I'll stroll into work tomorrow vaping like mad, because I can, can, can. NO MORE DRIPPING!!! The biggest Homer Woohoo!! possible!!

 

[Sugarfoot]

Agree. But, dammit, most vendors are now out of replacement atomizers..... I hate messing with rebuilding, but looks like I;m stuck if I want to stick with the Vivi.

 

[Rocketpunk]

Agree. But, dammit, most vendors are now out of replacement atomizers..... I hate messing with rebuilding, but looks like I;m stuck if I want to stick with the Vivi.

Supply and demand. Enough people waving huge fists of cash in their faces, they'll make more.

I hope so, at least!

 

[Moueix]

Yeah, I have a boatload of em too. Super easy. Only thing I don't like about them is how it darkens the juice and the flavor gets kinda muted and thick near the bottom of the tank. But the fix is as simple as a quick rinse out, fill her back up and off we go again! Sweeeeet.

 

[Debadoo]

lol I love it too! I loved watching phil busardo eat his words when it came to the vivi, and he did admirably. He was like you, no clearo they all stink. But he liked the vivi too.

Sugarfoot, GV has all but the 2.4 head in stock GotVapes Vision ViVi Nova™ V2.5 : GotVapes.com, E-cigarette Supplies - Atomizers Cartomizers Mods Juice and more

 

[kelleymcm]

I love mine too....if you learn how to dry burn the coils to clean them,
than you won't get darkened juice & have to buy so many replacement coils ....

ALL coils get gunked up & have to be dry burned to clean,
juice color change is a sign of needing to clean coil ....

mine has had the same coil/head in it, since I got it in MAY .

 

[Debadoo]

totally agree with kelley. If you aren't dryburning after you rinse, you should.
Blot the wicks dry
attach head to post, and attach post to battery
Zap in 4 second increments at around 3.4v on a vv, or use an ego type
let cool a couple seconds, repeat until the coils are glowing red, you can can see each individual coil and the wick is white underneath it, and there is no more smoke or burnt odor
rinse after the dryburn (some don't do this, but I always do)
Blog wicks, reassemble fill and vape. No need to let the wicks dry.

I got my first vivi the end of june and just popped my first coil last week. And I think that was my fault.

 

[madmartyr72]

I have to say that the Nova's have been by far the best and most dependable tank/cartos I have used since I started vaping. Excellent taste, excellent vapor, and all around outstanding performance. I have been using the same 2.4ohm head on one of my Nova's for well over a month now and it still hits like the day I first filled it up. I have ordered a few different DCT's since first trying the Nova's and none that I have tried can hold a candle IMO. I am definitely a fan (if you couldn't already tell).

 

[TheSenator]

I have 2 regular and 4 minis in my permanent rotation.
I'm not into rebuilding yet, so in my mind, the vapor production, reliability, and ease of cleaning/changing heads can't be beat right now.

 

[Kemosabe]

totally agree with kelley. If you aren't dryburning after you rinse, you should.
Blot the wicks dry
attach head to post, and attach post to battery
Zap in 4 second increments at around 3.4v on a vv, or use an ego type
let cool a couple seconds, repeat until the coils are glowing red, you can can see each individual coil and the wick is white underneath it, and there is no more smoke or burnt odor
rinse after the dryburn (some don't do this, but I always do)
Blog wicks, reassemble fill and vape. No need to let the wicks dry.

I got my first vivi the end of june and just popped my first coil last week. And I think that was my fault.

my dry burning did not go that smoothly
maybe the wick was still wet, IDK. but my dry burn attempt created a tiny bit of vapor/smoke but the coils did not glow. maybe the coil was too gunked up and past the point of no return.? idk, i just said hell with it and rebuilt the darn thing.
how is it that i can rebuild, yet havent mastered the dry burn lol?

 

[RosaJ]

Check this out:

A PBusardo Tutorial - Vivi Nova Cleaning & Rebuilding - YouTube

I did it using 100% cotton yarn from Hobby Lobby. It works!

 

[Kemosabe]

Check this out:

A PBusardo Tutorial - Vivi Nova Cleaning & Rebuilding - YouTube

I did it using 100% cotton yarn from Hobby Lobby. It works!

good review. the rebuild portion went very smoothly for me. thats actually what i used as a guide. the dry burning however, not so much luck there. im pretty sure dry burning an already gunked coil wont work. i think dry burning only works if the coil only has minor buildup. if this is not the case, someone please fill me in.

 

[kelleymcm]

no I put off cleaning a lot ...
most of the time my coils have a SOLID BLACK BALL built up on them ...

I just dry burn till it is totally gone (not smokin' anymore) & wick goes back to white .
sometimes this can take awhile, just keep at it ....
hold button to count of 5 let up a sec or two repeat ...

or if you have a small torch or a cig. lighter that is torch like
or U can use the flame on GAS stove top ...
Just use hemos or something to hold head in the flame pull back let smoke,repeat

be aware of any silicone/rubber o-rings etc & don't melt them

& NEVER BLOW in a HOT COIL (IDC what pbizzaro says) that will POP coils
I noticed in his video he didn't really dry burn his, he just lit it up

& I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter whether the taste of new wire bothers ya' or NOT
the stuff on new wire is NOT GOOD for you ....
so I would always suggest dry burning NEW WIRE at least for a few sec's B-4 use .

 

[bacc.vap]

my dry burning did not go that smoothly
maybe the wick was still wet, IDK. but my dry burn attempt created a tiny bit of vapor/smoke but the coils did not glow. maybe the coil was too gunked up and past the point of no return.? idk, i just said hell with it and rebuilt the darn thing.
how is it that i can rebuild, yet havent mastered the dry burn lol?

If your wick has alot of moisture in it yet, you just have to keep burning till it dries out. If you use an ego at 3.3v or a vv at about the same or maybe up to 3.5v you don't have much to worry about concerning popping the coil, if it pops it was just weak and needed replacement anyway. I don't think there's much need for pulsing at that voltage either, at least I don't do it and most of my coils last months. My motto when it comes to dry burning is " Go for Broke", if it does'nt survive it was'nt meant to go back into the ring for the next round. My advice, press the power button and don't stop till you reach the cutoff. Look that glowing coil in the face and say " Whatever, man".

 

[Debadoo]

my dry burning did not go that smoothly
maybe the wick was still wet, IDK. but my dry burn attempt created a tiny bit of vapor/smoke but the coils did not glow. maybe the coil was too gunked up and past the point of no return.? idk, i just said hell with it and rebuilt the darn thing.
how is it that i can rebuild, yet havent mastered the dry burn lol?

yeah I do like kelley, cept mine are typically not that dirty. I clean/dryburn about every four tanks, but I use mostly lighter sweet, fruity type juices. The coils are dark, but it usually doesn't take long. I do 4-5 second blasts. let cool a couple seconds and repeat. I have a paper towel lined bowl near the kitchen sink. I usually wash the head, put it in the bowl to dry......grab a dry one.....go dry burn it rinse it and use it. If that don't work, send me your dirty's and I'll dry burn em for ya, and I'll send you my ones that need recoiling, cuz between cataracts, and arthritis I haven't even thought about attempting that yet. lol

If I do dryburn a wet one, just make sure to at least blot the coils, but typically it only takes maybe 10-15 extra blasts to get it dry so it will start burning the gunk off. Do you use ce3's maybe, and are used to doing only 1 second blasts on a dry burn??

 

[Kemosabe]

thanks everyone! i guess i just gotta try harder. after a few bursts and very very very little smoke/vapor coming from the coils, i thought there was just no dry burn to be had on these here coils. im just gonna keep firing! also, thats great to know that your wick went back to white!! that is truly amazing. i thought the black spots in the wick were permanent.

no i dont use CE3s. ive never used any CEs actually. the only dry burning im used to is with atties. i blow out the excess liquid and fire that puppy until the sizzling stops and the coils glow orange. my nova heads are so gunked up. way worse than ive ever let an atty get. i dont know what i was thinking...maybe i thought vivi nova heads were indestructable and impervious to gunk or something lol.

 

[Debadoo]

lol they do seem nearly indestructable, but not so much on the impervious to gunk. lol Luckily they are incredibly easy to clean! And from what I see in vids, pretty easy to rebuild if you can see and your fingers work. And pretty cheap to buy new ones if ya can't. Which reminds me........