Thread: Chilling fog juice to make ground fog

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I just got another fog machine to supplement the one I already have. This one is designed for ground fog effects. The instructions say to use ice. Is cold water actually vital to the production of better ground fog or is it the cooling effect from the ice that does that? Could I used gel ice packs instead to get the cold effect?

Torqumada

Well heat rises. So the cooler the fog to the air temp the lower/longer it is to the ground. I am guessing your new machine has the ice box built on it to cool the fog? Does the fog blow right into the ice or through a hose that goes through the ice? If it is right into the ice then you have to use ice. The fog will not go through water. If it goes in a pipe through the ice box use ice water for better fog. Myth Busters did a test for the best way to get beer cold. Ice water was the fatest, coldest, and lasted the longest in all the tests.

A fog chiller is vital. Lots of ice cools the fog and lets it hug the ground. I also heard that rock salt with the ice will get the contents even colder, just like making homemade ice-cream. My chiller works extremely well. Try it out.

After some testing, I can confirm that cold packs don't do the job the ice does. Ice may just absorb the heat from the fog faster to create the ground fog effect. It means I will be filling the cooler every 20 minutes or so. Anyone ever modify their fog chiller to hold more ice?

Torqumada

Thanks for the research post Torqumada. I was considering using those but "ll go back to ice.....

I bought a ground fogger from Target. It has a tube that attaches to a bag which you are supposed to freeze. This fogger sucks! The bag that you are supposed to freeze broke open spilling water all over the kitchen the other night and the fogger outputs very little fog. Would not recommend it to anyone but it is better than nothing at this point.

Christmas is coming. Start making a list with a ground fogger at the top of the list!

Torqu,
Do you have a ground fogger with a little compartment for ice or do you have fogger that is attached to a homemade chiller?
Also is it indoor or out door use?

Those store type chillers I've never seen one worth buying..... this was a big topic last few years ( FYI for our new members ) & one member did a several tests with dif ice types & cooler designs (Post with vid somewhere in the archive threads ). Dry ice, wet ice, salt. The best outcome was 50/50 mix of wet & dry ice & a large garbage bag wrapped around the exit tube of chiller & with top opening of bag layed flat on floor produce the best output, low lying fog ( I believe they tried Halloween store brand juice & Froggy's.....Froggy's was best ) & if your using this outside on a lawn area, wet down the lawn will help keep it on the ground !

Member had a vid up & I tried this method with a homemade reverse type chiller made from a large cooler ( Fogger sits on top of cooler with a tube that curls down & enters bottom side, tube continues thru inside & turns upward thru center of screen & stops face up to lid within a few inches. A screen sit 4" off bottom, ice on top of screen.Exit nozzle at opposite side at bottom. Fog goes to top inside & pushed thru ice to exit at bottom & out. A drier hose runs for 6' + - with some frozen water bottles inside tubing - & exits thru flattened garbage bag & lays nice & flat ! I've used this inside a carpeted room on a school haunt last year & works just as good like this inside as outside )

Originally Posted by Dark lord

Member had a vid up & I tried this method with a homemade reverse type chiller made from a large cooler ( Fogger sits on top of cooler with a tube that curls down & enters bottom side, tube continues thru inside & turns upward thru center of screen & stops face up to lid within a few inches. A screen sit 4" off bottom, ice on top of screen.Exit nozzle at opposite side at bottom. Fog goes to top inside & pushed thru ice to exit at bottom & out. A drier hose runs for 6' + - with some frozen water bottles inside tubing - & exits thru flattened garbage bag & lays nice & flat ! I've used this inside a carpeted room on a school haunt last year & works just as good like this inside as outside )

I started something like this last year but never completed it. I was going to try a trash can chiller this year. Yeah..I've read tons of posts and google searches and the trash can chiller seems to have the largest following. What's your opinion? How big was the cooler you used?