Vivi Nova Crippling noob

[SvenonVapour]

Hi Everyone,

I have taken a look at this forum and am pretty confident Im in the right place.

I have been off analogs for about a month now and Im not looking back. Wish I had been vaping for years! I feel amazing.

I purchased a starter kit Ego - T upgraded battery (2 x voltage settings 3.3v and 4.15v) and got 5 carts and and CE5 clearomizer. I have to admit I took a few puffs with a cart and tossed it. Yes the flavour is better but the clearomizer wins hands down on everything else IMO.

The CE5 started irretating me with the constant e-juice in the mouth so went out and got a Vivi Nova (GS V-Core) tank today. Tried the 2.4ohm coil, very poor vapour and almost no taste. Just Modded the 1.8 coil, removed some of the wick shortened it and pushed the coils further away from each other. Set up the voltage to 4.15, great flavour, very very poor vapour. What am I doing wrong.

Take a few drags off the Vivi and then a few from my CE5 to feel satisfied. very frustrating....

any advise would be great.

 

[Dvx67]

I'm not sure, my vivi novas have great vapor production. The only issue I have with them is the dry hits occasionally because the coil is at the top. You could try re wicking it with silica wick. And at some point you will want a vv or vw battery so you might try picking up one of those. I reccomend trying an evod also.

The again, it could be your juice.

 

[elwood173]

Did you drip on the wick were the coil is before firing it off? I had the same issue with mine when I first got it, the thing just tasted gross and burnt. I started dripping on the coil before filling it up with a new coil and I'm diggin it now.

 

[lilmrsyeti]

Is it a Genuine Vision Viva Nova and not a Knock off? I have to say this though, most of my juices I have to vape at 4.5 4.8 Volts for it to taste good to me...anything lower and I can barely taste the flavor.

Also, make sure you are tilting and turning your tank to keep the juice all over your wicks.

 

[bilbobaggins30]

The ViVi nova does not play nice with thicker juices, simply because there is an issue with wicking. It is slow to wick, so you must twirl it after each vape a few times, and dry suck on it to pull some juice in. Then you can vape happily. My 2.4 ohm coil however is finicky, and I usually run it at around 3.4 - 3.8 v on my Provari, and it has been fine. I have been using the same coil for a while now. Did you also try cleaning it, and dry-burning before your first vape? Did you put on the silicon cap?

 

[Red_Bird]

Hi Everyone,

I have taken a look at this forum and am pretty confident Im in the right place.

I have been off analogs for about a month now and Im not looking back. Wish I had been vaping for years! I feel amazing.

I purchased a starter kit Ego - T upgraded battery (2 x voltage settings 3.3v and 4.15v) and got 5 carts and and CE5 clearomizer. I have to admit I took a few puffs with a cart and tossed it. Yes the flavour is better but the clearomizer wins hands down on everything else IMO.

The CE5 started irretating me with the constant e-juice in the mouth so went out and got a Vivi Nova (GS V-Core) tank today. Tried the 2.4ohm coil, very poor vapour and almost no taste. Just Modded the 1.8 coil, removed some of the wick shortened it and pushed the coils further away from each other. Set up the voltage to 4.15, great flavour, very very poor vapour. What am I doing wrong.

Take a few drags off the Vivi and then a few from my CE5 to feel satisfied. very frustrating....

any advise would be great.

You need a better battery to run high ohm clearos/tanks and expect good vapor. A Vision Spinner or a Joyetech Ego Twist would be a much better investment......Run that Vivi Nova at 4.2 to 4.5 V and you would get much better performance.

Its all about how many volts you push at how much resistance (ohms)= the amount of production/ performance u will get

 

[DaveP]

Since you have the eGo thread, a Kanger T3 would be a natural. I like the Vivi Nova, but the Kanger bottom coil design is defintely better. On an eGo batt the Kanger is a natural fit that provides great flavor.

I liked my T3 so much that I ordered a Protank and an adapter to fit my Provari.

 

[theclev13]

Its a typical issue with wicking systems. I have tried 99% of them out there and they all taste the same (like crap) I like carto tanks and cartos ingeneral. 2.4ohms is a little on the high side for your battery set up, a 1.8 would work better because it heats the juice better than the 2.4. If you can get them, try the smoktech ViVi nova, the wicks are just better all around and coming from someone who hates anything with a wick thats saying somthing

 

[SvenonVapour]

The ViVi nova does not play nice with thicker juices, simply because there is an issue with wicking. It is slow to wick, so you must twirl it after each vape a few times, and dry suck on it to pull some juice in. Then you can vape happily. My 2.4 ohm coil however is finicky, and I usually run it at around 3.4 - 3.8 v on my Provari, and it has been fine. I have been using the same coil for a while now. Did you also try cleaning it, and dry-burning before your first vape? Did you put on the silicon cap?

I did use some advice from above and wet the coils a bit. That seems to work better. I think you may have nailed the problem though, my e-juice is very very thick, I will try it with a thinner juice I have at home.

Will need to get an upgraded battery system because it seems Im light years behind with my ego-t.

 

[Red_Bird]

Vivi Nova (GS V-Core)??? I'm not familiar with this version of a Vivi Nova.... It could be a bad knockoff.

I have Vision Vivi Nova's.....they have very good vapor production but they mute flavor. Haven't used them much at all since January or so.

 

[SvenonVapour]

Im not sure if I am allowed to post links, but here it goes. Sorry if I piss off someone.

https://eciggies.co.za/Cartomizers

This is what i can get my hands on (Being in South Africa) and the prices arent too bad imo.

I also want to get the monster battery, Im not sure if its the same as the lavatube though.

This will probably be seen as a bit lazy but what is the best setup I can get as an all rounder I want something better than my CE5 setup. (dont want the Evic Battery think the price is crazy).

 

[Red_Bird]

Vape Only BCC Clearo looks to be the best option on that page.

CE2, CE3, CE4, CE5, CE8 all are garbage......Leakers and/ or bad performers , never used one more then once. My garbage can has seen a few of those in the past.

 

[Izan]

Hi and welcome,
It sounds like you may need to slow your draw/ inhale speed. If the VIVI whistles, you are sucking too hard.
Fire battery as you place it in mouth, draw slow and steady. No whistle.
My wife like to smoke hers like it is a real cigarette..
hit it quick, hard, deep..
She HATES my gear.
For her, an auto 510 cigalike and a bottom coil cartomizer or the Kanger t4 gives her the "smoking sensation" that keeps her off the combustibles.

The kit you have should provide a satisfying vape (liquid dependent,of course) is used correctly.

Good luck
Have fun
I

Oh, Just so you don't feel left out... Buy a PROVARI..

 

[Szerek]

I'm a relatively new vaper as well and I've never been able to get good vapor production out of my ego battery with the 2.4 and 2.8 ohm heads (with the 2.8ohm head being the worst especially on a kGo battery that is ready to be charged). I have no issues with the 1.8 ohm head nor with Boge 2.0 ohm cartos. Both give nice vapor and flavor but anything above 2.0 ohms for me starts to under-perform. I've learned my Vivi Nova is also a knock off, and I have issues with whistling and juice siphoning. I'm currently trying to save up for a ProVari.

 

[DavidOck]

If you're getting mouth juice from the CE, it's quite possible you're overfilling it.

I've used a lot of the CE styles, and have have very few problems with them. (You don't want the CE4s, though, as they don't have replaceable coils.) (I also use Novas, Nanos, T3s, Evods, cartos, carto tanks.... coming up soon on "everything except dripping. )

Like any device, you need to keep them clean, all parts snugly fitted.

Szerek is right on regarding lower resistance for fixed voltage batteries. Somewhere around 2 ohms will work.

For future consideration, certainly, would be something with a higher voltage possibility, like the Spinner, if you want to keep initial costs down.

And op, I'm curious. How does 60R convert to average income? Is that about a pack of smoke, or a night on the town?

 

[DaveP]

Vivi Nova heads have a little white fiber tube surrounding the coil that you can see when you remove the silicone tube that slides down over the head and interfaces with the drip tip. After it's used for a while it takes on a brownish color from the juice and the heat. That little white tube has caused dry hits in most of the heads I've used. Now, I automatically remove it when I change a head and the vapor is much thicker and the flavor is better. The thinking is that the tube pinches the wicks slightly where they pass through it and lowers the saturation of juice at the coil.

I remove it using a pen knife blade. Just use the tip to catch one side of the fiber tube, press it against the metal tube, and lift gently. One side will tear and come out. The other side lifts easy once the first side is out. Make sure the wicks are bottomed out in the slots after you do that. I was dubious at first about removing it, thinking I might break the coil wires, but it's definitely an improvement once you do. I've removed a palm full of them with no damage to the head.

 

[DavidOck]

Many of the stardust style heads have the same "sleeve." And benefit from the same action.

It looks more like a fiberglas mat than anything else, to me. I wonder if that's what gets charred and alters the taste? Especially when dry burning....

 

[DaveP]

Many of the stardust style heads have the same "sleeve." And benefit from the same action.

It looks more like a fiberglas mat than anything else, to me. I wonder if that's what gets charred and alters the taste? Especially when dry burning....

It doesn't take much crimp pressure to slow down wicking. I've gotten to the point that I remove the sleeve first thing, just in case. It's probably made of silica material that won't burn (like the wicks). Fiberglass isn't so melt proof. Anything that close to the coil just about has to be a silica cloth weave. I think most of the discoloration is from heated juice that soaks into it from the wicking. Like the inside of a carto, it cleans up nice with a little hot water. I've taken cartos apart and swore that the filler was burned. After a hot water rinse they were surprisingly clean.

 

[DavidOck]

So there might be something to cleaning cartos, eh? I've never thought it worth the time

Makes sense on the material used.

 

[SvenonVapour]

R 60.00 is about 2 packs of high end smokes (20's).