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Does anyone know how many volts those green lights
are on those cheap foggers? I have yet to get a volt meter.

Are you talking about the pendant switches on the Walmart floggers?

On the UK equivalent of these Foggers these switches carry 240VAC, so Im fairly sure that the US ones will carry 110VAC.

Thats what is was thinking. And yes its a walmart one that I got at michaels that craft
store.

I modded one to work from a relay, and found that I had to leave the switch and light in the circuit.

Im am going to hook it up to a k74 relay board but I am going to also
controll it with a doorbell button but I want the light to come on in
the doorbell button when I can use it manually.

If you are talking about parallel controls then that could get tricky, Id link the Doorbell to the computer and in turn have that trigger the fogger

Ya im hooking the doorbell up to the normal push button on the fogger and putting the relay on it.

Ill have to look at how I rigged up mine, but I remember it was not straight forward, I think I had to leave the switch in the circuit and tie it down in the on position, I didn't spend a great deal of time on it so there may be a better way.

http://www.grimlabs.com/halloween/fogwire2.gif

This shows how to hook up a relay to use a fogger timer to run something of higher power. Eliminate the relay and wires going to the relay on this drawing for your purpose. You need to get insed the timer for what you want to do (and jumper the "fog" switch).

For myself, I modified a fogger timer with a relay to close the "fog" button when I pushed a "low voltage" button.
The schematic shows whats going on inside the fogger and inside the timer so you know where to jumper your relay into.

If you need more help...I can explain more.

I was thinking of something like this the doorbell is for
when I can trigger it and the relay is for when im not at the house.
But a light will go on in my controll board when a can manually use it.