Wow, thanks everyone for some great feed back. I ran to the store now I have a bunch of replies to respond to! This is a great forum!
Interesting enough when I got home and tried my tank, no problems. Wonder there was a pressure problem or build-up of some sort as some of you suggested. One reason I am using this tank is that it can handle juices that bust other tanks. I have Mojito in it now and I was nervous of putting that in anything like a ViVi.
What PG/ VG ratio are you using and how many holes in the cartomizers? When I was using a carto/ tank system I punched my own holes- one hole 2.5 mm. I vape 60/ 40 PG/ VG.
The VG ratio is 50/50. The carts came pre-punched with two holes. They look rather large to me but I don't know one way or the other. I did get a saddle valve so I can punch my own now. Will try that soon.
Cartos, blow them out after condom method. Maybe look at the taryn spin on youtube. I love my cartos.
The tank...I'm even more of a noob with...but I noticed I needed to put downward pressure on the top of the tank to keep the carto in it's groove when threading. Also, wet the o rings. I'm literally on my first tank day and it's been flawless, I wish you luck.
I checked a few videos before I tried it, but it would be good for me to go back and look at the technique again. I do blow them out and let them sit for awhile (10-15 minutes) before I use them When they work the work great. Good advice.
I find even with VV sometimes less is better. Even though my VV PV will go to 6.0 volts my favorite spot is 4 to 4.3 volts. Im guessing if your burning a cartomizer in a couple of draws your running too high a voltage. Ive also had standard tanks drip at the bottom out of the cartomizer, no solution to that yet. The vivi in my opinion is a total hunk of junk. Have had a ton of issues with mine. I also had mine tighten up as far as the draw goes. I modified the crap out of it,read all the posts on it, rebuilt the heads etc etc. Just not worth more of my time to fix someone else's engineering screw up. Thats my opinion.
I heard the draw problem was fixed with version 2.0, are you using a V1? Even though mine gives me no flavor it draws as good as my carto's, even better. I will try using a lower voltage next time a make a carto though.
It's a journey, no doubt.
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*Jaymzifer*, learning that over the last month since I started vaping. So much to learn and it seam like its mostly trial and error. No stores or anyone I know IRL that vape. The ones I first tried over a month ago I got at a local analog store and they were lame but they did lead me here. So it was worth it.
The vivi nova tanks are great in my opinion.. The atomizers are 2.00, so pick your favorite ohm.. And dispose of one every two weeks or so.. (that's what they last me and I'm a chain vaper.. I mean.. 30-40 Ml's of juice a week..
DCT tanks are good I like the smoktek tanks with a 1.5 ohm pure punched carto.. I run 60/40 pg/VG juices in them and they leak on occasion, but over all for cost and usefulness they are a good product.
Also set up a couple tanks with your juice and rotate them out to lessen the frequency of the maintenance.. You will still clog up tanks and atomizers with colored liquid.. But that's part of it.
I am starting to think my expectations are too high. I would expect things to work but due to the cottage industry it seams like that's not the case with vaping. Heck, I have even received juices with no flavoring.
Vivi Nova heads last me 10-12 days on light juices and about 5 days on my favorite heavy (dark) juice. All of my juices are 50/50. I know it's time to change them when the flavor goes off (hard to describe). When I remove the head, I can see a blob of gunk on the coil. I have had no luck cleaning them after that point, the still taste like crap. I have to try my hand at rebuilding someday. In the meantime, the heads are pretty inexpensive.
I had good luck with tanks when I switched to Boge cartos that I slotted myself. But after using the Vivi Nova, I don't want to go back to anything with filler.
Doh! Flyer, that makes perfect sense. I did not equate the juice color. The stuff I have been running is rather dark. I tried to clean it earlier today with soap and water. I looked at the atty and it was dark. What your saying makes sense. I am going to put a new on in it tonight at some point. Right now I have the very last of my House Blend in it and I don't want to waste it. Putting it the ViVi was the first time I could taste it! Who knows when my NLV Bounty Hunter order will come.
I like my vivi nova (v2.5) also. Have you cleaned the head that's giving you problems?
For ease of use on an ego, however, nothing beats the stardust clearos. IMHO, of course.
I have tried the stardust as well. Had leading and the first one died in days. IMHO, the vape quality of the ViVi is better for flavor and vapor. Now if I can just figure out what I am doing with them! I have a few extra stardust clearos, I should break another one out
if you want to run high voltages make sure to also run high ohm or your gonna have a bad time. As well as I had the same issues with any carto I hate filler with a vengence at this point and have went to all clearo and my fave when I am just kickin back an HR 306 on my bombshell with stacked rcr123a 3.0volts. The CE2 are nice if ya don't mind filling with a needle and don't want to mess with an adapter if you don't mind the adapter for your tube or with the twist ya don't need one the CE4 is great and easy to fill as well as clean and maintain. The last option that is awesome for capacity is the CE9 tank same as the rest just bigger.
As you and
*MRGreen819* pointed out I need to keep an eye on my voltages. I like the hit better at higher voltages (warmer vape and more flavorful), but I only do that with a 3.0ohm device. Mostly I run around 4.0-5.3.
