Vivi Nova problems after changing the head

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Got my new vivi nova a week back, cleaned it every other day as I have been playing around with juices.
Anyway today's morning clean went a bit wrong and I ended up pulling the wicks off the head.
No problem I though I have a load of spear heads with wicks and 2 which came free with the Vivi.
So I changed the head with the 2.8 ohm one from the box

All day it's been tasting really bad, a plastic kind of taste, gives a sore throat hit every vape, and just tastes really bad.
I have tried every voltage on my Lava Tube but it's stil the same

I've now got so pi**ed off with it I washed out the tank again and have thrown away the head I put on this morning.
I have some more replacement ones at my office stil in the sealed package so I will try one of them tomorrow.

Anyone got any ideas though?

[Ewol]

What did you clean your Vivi with? I'm assuming the wicks are wet enough? Is this a new juice you have in it or one you have used before?

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Cleaned with warm water
The new head/wick was put on, tank filled and left for 10 mins and swirled around.
Same juice I have used before.

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It can only be the head/wick I think.
Just hope a new one tomorrow will work better.
Had a bad vape taste day today, shame as I was really enjoying the vivi nova till this happened.

I did notice that when putting the top cap back on the nova it was pushing the top silicon head down a lot onto the wick, could this have been the problem with the plastic bad taste? it wasn't a burnt taste just a not very nice taste which hit the throat bad.
I tried to cut a little bit off the silicon tube but ended up making a mess of it so threw it all away including the wick.

I started actually thinking of cigs and should I just go back to them, at the end of the day you buy a packet, light one up smoke it and that's it not hassle....
But it's not what I want to do really
Also spent a hell of a lot of money on my set ups this last month, i want it all to work out for the best really....

[dave]

The problem with all mass produced stuff is that it is variable in quality and sometimes needs a bit of faffing
When the Vivi is good it is very good............
The heads do vary I find though, but they are usually at least OK. I do find with a new one that it does need some juice through it before it is at its best and you can get a bit of a funky taste to start with (Probably because I cannot be bothered to wash them before I use them!).
The other thing I'd say is that I personally always dry things off thoroughly after washing them - that way there is no danger of shorting and you don't dilute the taste of your juice.

[4madcats]

Dave just beat me to it but the first time I put a new head on my mini I got a weird /funky taste for a little while, closest thing I could compare it to was paraffin .

I did post a thread on it about a week ago & Swoddy came back & said they can taste funky as well so not just us, I think it's what the silica wick gets treated with. I have seen some youtube vids were people were just running lightly over new wick with a lighter before using it.

To be safe with mine I washed the other new heads before I used them & if there was any residue / taste it's gone now

You could try taking off the silicon cap & putting some juice directly on the coil of a new head & firing it up a few times before you vape see if that burns it off. But totally agree nothing worse then contaminated juice

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All good again

I took one of the sealed package, washed it, then dried it and dry burned it
I put on the old silicon top from my first one, filled it up, let it sit for 10 mins and away it goes, no bad taste

[timnowvapes]

....you shouldn't really need to dry burn a new head?

I never have anyway.

What I do do, with the Visions and Novas, is to drip juice on the wick / coil, and then drip down the wick before full assembly, also a bit of juice on the threads too to get a really good seal.

Less sitting time and more vaping time

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It's still not tasting right with the 2.8ohm Atomiser Head
The one which the Vivi Nova came with was a 2.4ohm Atomiser Head and that tasted great

Is there really a huge difference between a 2.8ohm Atomiser Head and a 2.4ohm Atomiser Head?

I don't see why there should be.

[dave]

There could indeed be a huge difference between these two heads - I always check the resistance of things and the Vivi heads can be wildly different from their specs. When they are out, I have found they are usually significantly higher than they should be.

[FirinBlanks]

I currently have a "2.4" Ohm head on at the moment which is actually checking in at 2.8 Ohms.

If I remember correctly the 2.8 Ohm wicks are made of one very thick wick with a smaller one wound together where the 2.4s are made of smaller strands combined. Personally I prefer the taste of juice with the thicker wick of the 2.8s.

edited to make a bit more sense.

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Interesting and a shame too, as I ordered a load of the 2.8 replacement heads and if this is what they are all like then i am not happy.

Next plan is to use one of the 2.4 heads I have on a spear Vivi and see if it's any better for me.
If it is then I know I like the 2.4 heads better and then order some of them.

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Oct 30, 2012 13:40:51 GMT FirinBlanks said:

I currently have a "2.4" Ohm head on at the moment which is actually checking in at 2.8 Ohms.

If I remember correctly the 2.8 Ohm wicks are made of one very thick wick with a smaller one wound together where the 2.4s are made of smaller strands combined. Personally I prefer the taste of juice with the thicker wick of the 2.8s.

edited to make a bit more sense.

My Lava Tube shows the 2.8 as 2,6 But it is a Lava Tube after all