How to rewick the Vivi Nova

[Gordy]

How to rewick the new Vivi Nova,


original kit contents


huge center pin sticking out as Blakey noted


pulled apart


bottom of coil head


you can see where the wires are attached


didnt get a pic of this but to take coil out, you pull the center pin out just grab it with finger nail or tweezers and then pull rubber gasket out also remove silicone top gasket, there is a metal shim in there, dont lose it




this baffled me, no non resistant wire on the tails, this is a problem because the tails will glow since they are wrapped around nothing, burn and melt gasket and you will inhale melted rubber


cut two pieces of ody wick to the length of the stock wick


cut resistance and non resistance wire, i guess on this but if you have a multimeter you can check where you want you resistance


twist non resistance wire onto resistance wire




once twisted, twist the remainder of the non resistance wire onto the part you twisted first


cut excess off and get your two wick together and wrap around it leaving the two "twist knots" of wire at the ends


positiong wick in coil head and run wires out the bottom and wedge wick in there until it bottoms out on the wick channels




bend neg wire down and keep other in center. it is crucial your positive isnt touching the walls of the chamber, it will short out


slide positive throug gasket and push gasket into place making sure negative is getting smashed by it.


push center pin in to hold positive wire


trim excess wire


screw it onto vivi base and check resistance and for shorts




prime your wick and slide silicone sleeve with metal bushing in there (the one mentioned earlier)


fill


mount


vape


I solved wicking problem. Milled a 3/32 hole at bottom of the wick slot. Wick is no longer choked. Also trimmed down the lower center pin and have no gap now.

[safercigs]

fantastic post thank you i will direct peeps to this awesome job m8


daz

[Al]

Excellent Thanks for posting this Gordy

[kibbutzangel]

Lovely work Gordy! Even an eejit like me might be able to do this

[domesticextremist]

Excellent guide there Gordy

[alvoram]

Gordy, I had an idea to solve this problem without no resistance wire... Not sure it will work, but what do you think????

It goes like this, we all know that you can wrap the negative wire around the outside rather than putting it up the outside of the rubber grommet, but that still leaves the positive. What if I put the positive lead up the inside of the metal positive pin/tube rather than between the positive pin and grommet? I could leave a few MMs on the end and carefully fold those MMs back up inside the tube to ensure a secure connection.... Do you think it's worth a go?