Thread: What fog juice to use with LITE F/X MODEL 1741 FOG MACHINE?

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Just bought a LITE F/X MODEL 1741 FOG MACHINE and need some guidance. I am looking to produce a low lying ground fog and was wondering what people would reccomend for fog juice.

I have no experience!

Help.

do you have more specifics than what you listed?

How many watts? 400? 1000?

Is it designed as a low lying fogger or do you just want low lying fog

And most important, where are you going to use it? Inside? Outside? and how cold does it get at Halloween where you live?

For low lying fog to work, the fog must be colder than the ambient air temperature, so if you live where it gets really cold on Halloween, success on low lying fog is hit and miss....mostly miss. But if you have warm evenings, you're in luck.

Fog juice isn't the issue as much as having a method to cool the fog.

I've never heard of your type of fogger, but I can tell you about my experience. We have two of the Party City (purple box) foggers and one heavy-duty pro-DJ fogger. I just use the cheapo WalMart fog juice for them all. Check and see if you have the directions or manual that came with your fogger. It may tell you what kind of fog juice to use. But I'm pretty sure they're all very similar recipes.

To keep it low lying, Scatterbrains is right, the fog has to be chilled. There are all kinds of how-to's online for fog chillers and some of them are very involved. I do it with the white disposable styrofoam coolers from the liquor store. The basics are that the fog goes in one end, gets chilled over ice and comes out the other end. The styrofoam is really easy to cut with a steak knife. So you cut a hole in each end of the cooler. Then get some flex tubing like is used for a washer/dryer at Home Depot and coil it up inside the cooler. The more distance the fog has to go through the ice the longer it'll stay chilled. Stick the two ends of the tubing out each hole that you created in the cooler. One end goes right up to the nozzle on the fogger and the other is where the chilled fog comes out. Just make sure that your fogger's nozzle doesn't heat up and melt the plastic tubing. If your fogger has a hot nozzle, you make need to add something metal or cardboard onto the end of the tubing that can take the heat. Then fill the whole cooler up with ice and turn on the fogger. That's a lot of info, but it's really pretty easy.

The other tip I have for using any and all foggers is to get a timer. I think some might come with them. But it's usually an accessory. They make all the difference. You can set the fog time and the interval, so you don't have to stand there and press the button for fog all the time. It really saves on fog juice too. I only fill my foggers every other year. I store them with the juice in them and everything.

Good luck!

1741 is the 700W Lite F/X Fogmaster (New models seem to be called Fog F/X).

I am going to try Froggy's Freezing Fog Juice this year for low lying fog, as I have heard good things here.

Do you own a LITE F/X MODEL 1741 FOG MACHINE? Yeah I think mine is 700W. I live in Oregon and deal with chilly temps and rain.

Probably gonna build a chiller with a 5 gal bucket.

Thanks EVERYBODY!

Oh...and do you think the 700w will be enough for the Froggy's?...I see posts that the fogger needs to be a higher watt.

thoughts?

I see alot of timers. Are the all universal? Any suggestions on what type of timer?

Make the Chiller and use a Irrigation hose or just the hose and fill it with ice or frozen water bottles! i used water bottles frozen and it worked really good the hose has the holes in it and its like 10 bucks or less at home depot or Lowes heres a vid of someone using it!! Works very well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfkwBLILjLc

Very Cool! Thanks for the input! Would have never thought of the Irrigation hose...

Can you tell me a little about how you play you music outdoors...are you using a stereo from inside the home or some type of speaker set up outside..

Thanks for your time!! Really!