Vivi Nova made me sick

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vapmex

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Hi,

just wanted to share my experience, I vape normally switching between Vivi Nova and Kanger T3, I like the fact that the Vivi Nova works fine with lower voltages and I don't need to have a mod on it, well I had a bad experience recently I have been using the coil head for around 3 weeks or little less, the performance of the coil heads of course decreases over the time but not in the way that you notice it right away, you need to open a new coil to see the difference.... well I started coughing 4 days ago everytime that I vaped on the nova without any reason, the flavor didn't taste burnt and nothing seemed wrong with the wicks.... I switched to the T3 and no coughing what so ever.... so I tried to clean the vivi and give it some rest to dry it out, when I picked up again, I started to cough again... I decided to open a new coil and voila.. cough is gone.

What I think is that is dangerous because there is no sign that the coil is worned out or burnt but you start vaping some strange material that makes you cough... and you may think that this can be an seasonal allergy or whatever... there may be something wrong with the silica wicks of the vivi novas.
 

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vapmex, were you using a genuine Vision Vivi Nova or one of the knockoffs? Besides, whenever the flavor gets even the slightest bit funky, you should clean the head. And the instant you cough, that's your clue that you've waited too long to clean the head -- in fact, by that point, you may well have fried the wick and thereby destroyed it. Why would you keep vaping on a device that made you cough?
 

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Its a good idea with any atomizer to open it up and check on it after a week of use, especially if you are a heavy vaper. Most of the time I can taste a difference when coils are dirty , but most of the time its that one more puff that makes you cough a bit. With some of my juices I know a tankful is enough to have to clean the wick and coil. On other of my flavours I can go a week, but I take a peek when I fill just to make sure that I have clean wicks.

BTW, nothing wrong with good silica. Good quality silica can take a beating, I can dry burn it over and over and even when I make a new setup I can take the wick out, rinse a torch it and use again. Cheap or bad silica burns easily and falls apart. When you get silica take it and torch it. It should be able to be heated to a glowing orange and then go back to white. If it can do that , then its good.
 

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Its a good idea with any atomizer to open it up and check on it after a week of use, especially if you are a heavy vaper. Most of the time I can taste a difference when coils are dirty , but most of the time its that one more puff that makes you cough a bit. With some of my juices I know a tankful is enough to have to clean the wick and coil. On other of my flavours I can go a week, but I take a peek when I fill just to make sure that I have clean wicks.

BTW, nothing wrong with good silica. Good quality silica can take a beating, I can dry burn it over and over and even when I make a new setup I can take the wick out, rinse a torch it and use again. Cheap or bad silica burns easily and falls apart. When you get silica take it and torch it. It should be able to be heated to a glowing orange and then go back to white. If it can do that , then its good.

Do you know where I can get it? The silica I'm buying from Stormy's for my Terminator C falls apart just like you said.
 

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I clean my Vivi Nova heads every three or four days, dude--not after a month of solid vaping. No wonder you're coughing--those coils must look like the inside of a vintage coal-burning steam locomotive....

I clean them by taking them apart, and dunking all the metal parts (essentially everything except the tank tube) in a cup of Everclear. I leave the top and bottom caps and the little seal that goes on top of the coil head in there only about an hour or so, and then wash them with HOT water from my kitchen faucet.

The coil head, I let soak in the Everclear overnight. Then I take it out, and squeeze the wicks between a paper towel to get the excess liquid off. Then I dry-burn it. I screw the head into a base, and put it on my mod, and hit the fire button JUST until the coil starts to glow, and then I let go of the fire button. I do this over and over until it stops sizzling and there is barely any vapor coming off. If the coil STILL looks dirty, I'll put it back in some fresh Everclear for another overnight soak and repeat the dry-burn.

I usually wait until I have three or four heads that need cleaned to do this. I save up old dirty Vivi nova heads in a zip-lock bag until I have three or four, then just "batch process" them all at once.

It sounds tedious, but I'll tell you what-- I have hlf a dozen Vivi Nova 2.4ohm heads that have been in constant rotation since October 2012, using some VERY sweet, dark juices, and they still work fine...
 
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