Nnnoooooooooooooooo! This can't be happening!!!!!!!!

[Bundles]

All three of my batteries died today!! I try charging them on two chargers and the lights turn green, but there's no "juice." I'm cleaning my charger connections... don't know what else to do. My KGO batteries have always lasted all day!

This is terrible. This is earth-shattering. No late-night vaping. ***GASP*** This MUST be a nightmare.

-B, clinging to ledge......

 

[Swer3397]

Wall outlet or computer? Whichever one, switch and see. Leave it for a few hours and you might get 50% charge. Happend to me a few months back but had to replace eventually.

 

[loxmythe]

Check to see if the center post got pushed down and isn't making contact. Sometimes they get pushed down by screwing a carto on too tight. You can carefully wiggle them up a bit with a paper clip. Just don't get silly and pull them out. Hope this helps.

 

[Bundles]

Well it appears that the head of my ViVi Nova had died. I kept trying the same VVN on my batteries and assumed it was either the batteries or the chargers... Replaced the head, and voila -- VAPOR!!

Sweet relief.

 

[Bundles]

Turns out it was more complicated. Had one dead head, and one base centerpost that was crooked - so no head would work on that base! So loxmythe you were right!... No wonder i was so confused... Plus the wine didn't help.

 

[Bundles]

p.s. I just straightened out that center post and that fixed it. Crossing fingers.

 

[LeAnn]

That seem to happen to me on all my ego type batts that have a center post, I am always afraid that I am going to pop that sucker right out when I pry it up so it takes me forever to fix, sooooo why doesn't the manufactors fix this?

 

[Bundles]

Hmm well I was talking about the center post in the base of the mini vivi nova. Mine was off-kilter. I think I misunderstood Loxsmythe! But he/she helped nonetheless.

 

[RedHen]

how did you straighten out your nova pedestal??? Mine is off too... the silicone cap looks waaay off center when I screw the top cap on.

 

[Bundles]

how did you straighten out your nova pedestal??? Mine is off too... the silicone cap looks waaay off center when I screw the top cap on.

Honestly i didn't notice whether or not the VVN inside "tower" was leaning (if that makes sense!)... What I did was unscrew the head from the bottom part. Looking down into the base/bottom part (whatever it's called!) stem, the stem has a post inside it. It was off-center. I stuck something pointy in there & just shifted it till it looked centered. I think I used the tip of a tool I had handy - but needlepoint pliers or even pointy tweezers would work too.

Evidently that little post being off-center was preventing the head from getting power. That's my theory anyway!

 

[Bundles]

eek. duplicate content. sorry!

 

[Bundles]

See my previous post... Here's what it looks like:

 

[LouP]

Good catch Bundles.......I once thought the head for my Vivi Nova had died too. Turned out that it had just loosened a bit from me talking the top on and off a lot. I just gently tightened it and vaped on.

I hope you've got everything working well for you now, Redhen.

 

[RedHen]

I am not having good luck. I just want to vape in peace! My vivi is not working out so well. I 've found that after about 2ml of juice the coil is beyond gunked and I hate having to waste all of the juice that is left in the wick/clinging to the tank to clean/burn it. Huge hassle. I have ten smoktek tank cartos and recently switched from 1.5 ohm 2 hole dual coil cartos to 2.0 ohm single hole (I think still dual coil) cartos and they still aren't really working. I'm STILL getting flooding on these after half a tank! I discovered that if i don't fill the tanks too full and hold my ego-c sideways so the hole is OUT of the juice while vaping and only tip it down periodically that so far they don't flood. I just want some nice, peaceful, flawless vaping.

 

[Swer3397]

I am not having good luck. I just want to vape in peace! My vivi is not working out so well. I 've found that after about 2ml of juice the coil is beyond gunked and I hate having to waste all of the juice that is left in the wick/clinging to the tank to clean/burn it. Huge hassle. I have ten smoktek tank cartos and recently switched from 1.5 ohm 2 hole dual coil cartos to 2.0 ohm single hole (I think still dual coil) cartos and they still aren't really working. I'm STILL getting flooding on these after half a tank! I discovered that if i don't fill the tanks too full and hold my ego-c sideways so the hole is OUT of the juice while vaping and only tip it down periodically that so far they don't flood. I just want some nice, peaceful, flawless vaping.

Unfortunately, it's a bit of a pie in the sky. In my own experience, vaping is always plagued by this not working or that working. It's just something I deal with. I kinda resigned to it being the nature of the beast. That said you do seem to be having a string of bad luck. With a tank, flooding is something I just got used to. It is really the only issue I have. When it happens I just blow out the device into a tissue and usually it is sorted.

How are you filling the tanks? Like, what are you using? I got excessive flooding when filling with a dropper then switched to a filler tool and the problem went away. Now, if I mess with it during the "full tank" and add some more, I will prolly get flooding again so I usually just wait til I am done and take the apparatus apart and redux.

 

[RedHen]

I'm using the droppers. 18 drops in the tank carto and then fill the tank, then dry hit until the tank has gone down about 1mm. It always worked like a charm before I switched over to my VV juices. What the heck is a filler tool??

I thought this vivi nova would be magic but it is not at all. I can get through one fill before it's a nightmare. And I'm having flooding issues with this too. I'm positive it's the center little silicone topper. I have it on there straight and it's still flooding the atty.

 

[Swer3397]

Ok Red, that could be your issue if you are filling up your non-vivi tanks via a fill-hole. The droppers tend to blow excess air into the tank causing major flooding from the get-go due to air bubbles. A filler tool is just a bottle with a plastic or metal syringe on it. If you can find a syringe tool, try that with a fresh run and see if your issue sorts itself. Mine did. I had a brand new bottle of OC and within minutes I would get flooding until I finally caved and switched. You can buy them online for like $3 but to get an immediate answer look around for anything syringe-like and see if this is sorts it. Obviously you'd wanna be real careful if you use a sharpe syringe since you could stick yourself with nicotine...I bought a blunt one because I am clumsy and can't risk it.

Above would more so address the tank issue instead of the Vivi, since with the Vivi you don't blow the juice through a filler hole, but instead pop off the head and simply pour. So idk about that, could be a red-herring. But for testing purposes try your other tanks this way and see.

 

[RedHen]

For the moment (probably until I can fiddle later this evening) I have thrown in the towel on tanks and am vaping out of a v4l coolcart with an 808-510 adaptor on my ego c-twist. mmm. honeydew.

 

[LouP]

Red...another idea for your Vivi Nova...I always add an extra piece of wicking on top off the coil. I just roll a few strands of cheesecloth and lay it on so it extends through the notches at the side of the head. I was too lazy to keep re-wicking the heads and found that this worked well for me. Also...which way have you got the silicone cap on?
The other thing I do with mine is to never fill it. I only put a little in at a time because I find that top coil designs don't vaporize the liquid evenly.
I hope you find your sweet spot soon.

 

[TamJeff]

Try packing the filler in the cartos tighter with a soda straw or around the edges with something blunt if they are flooding.