Im about to toss in the towel with this one. Ive been using Vision, Vivi Nova heads for almost 3 months now. I started replacing the heads at first, and quickly moved to rebuilding them myself to save money and because I enjoy it. I decided to try my hand at rebuilding with SS Mesh because of all the excitement using it. I received the 500 SS Mesh yesterday from OKC Vapes. Kudos to OKC, the package arrived with the mesh and some 32g Kanthal in perfect condition. I have watched many videos now on how to rebuild the vivi head with the mesh. I cut out a 20mm X 40mm piece and rolled tightly around a needle. I used the blue flame from a torch to oxidize 4-5 times heating until it glowed, and quenching after every time. I then heated 4X with VG and quenched everytime to add some oxidation. The wick was tightly rolled, and blackened by the heating. I grabbed my 32g Kanthal as I always use, and tightly wrapped 4 times around the new SS wick. I am using a Smoktech VMax. I placed the newly built head on the ViVi Nova body to test the resistance, and got approx. 1.3 Ohm's one time and around 1.7 another.....When it would actually read. Other times I fired before adding liquid and putting back together, I would get a F1 error. I took a needle and moved the coils around because I believed they were touching each other, or touching the inside of the head where it runs thru the bottom. At times it would fire, but burn very hot, very fast. Almost as if it were going to pop a coil. The voltage I had it set to was 3.7V I believe. When I could get it to fire, I put the silicone head on and then the tank.....And nothing, I would get the F1 error again. Actually I found that only sometimes after moving coils around, without the silicone top on, and without the tank, the ViVi head would actually fire without the error. After about 5 tries, I gave up on doing that way, and decided to use cheesecloth to make a hybrid by running it thru the middle, and wrapping around the SS wick to "insulate" the wire from the SS mesh wick. At 5 wraps I am getting 2.0 Ohms, but it actually works. I don't want to use the cheesecloth to insulate the wick, I only want to have the rolled SS mesh with the wire wrapped over it. What the heck am I doing wrong here???????? By the end of my adventure last night, I was nearly ready to throw the Nova thru the wall! Any help or advice that can be given would be GREATLY appreciated.
