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Originally Posted by robzilla69

1. Dry ice mist evaporates quickly. Way faster than good outdoor fog juice. Fine for indoors not for outdoors though.
2. dry ice is way colder than water ice making your fog colder.
3. cold fog= low fog
here in the northwest we are expecting 50's and rain. As long as there's no wind. my dry ice chiller and FROGGY"S FREEZING FOG. will work just fine. With water ice and cheep fog juice I'd be doomed!

4. the dry ice will quickly freeze the water around it, ending the effect thanks to a layer of frozen water ice between the "warm" water and dry ice. This has been my experience with dry ice in block form, anyway.

I've had good luck with a large chamber chiller with 2 layers/racks of ice (probably about 20-30lbs) and a 10lb block of dry ice on the upper rack. Then a nice long dryer vent hose out from there, which I extended this year for about 15' total length.

Besides wetting the ground (if you can) which makes the ground colder thus keeping the fog low if your using a pipe you can lay a plastic bag over the exit end of the pipe loosly, weighing the edges down with dirt or rocks. This forces the fog to stay down when exiting the pipe preventing it from immediatly rising when exiting the pipe. I use a black glad garbage bag.

Well, turns out it was a very warm nite here in so cal and the fog worked much better than usual ! By the way, i don't lay a plastic bag at the end of the pipe, but the end does go into a big hollow tombstone, so same effect....it fills the stone and slowly leaks out real nicely. the base of the stone is about 3 feet by a foot.

well first you have to sing it a song to it and then tuck it in with a nice pillow and blanket. jk lol got to go bigger? bigger box more ice?

Wind is thine enemy with fogger/chiller.

I was told that coating the top of your ice in a chiller with salt makes the ice's temperature drop a few degrees. A fella told me they did it at a bar he worked at to make the beers colder. This is not something I have attempted so I don't know for sure.

Here in SW Florida, trying to chill your fog is usually a losing a battle. It was 80+ degrees well after it dark. Keeping ice cold in that temp can become a full-time job.

Here's what I did: I didn't worry about. I let fog behave like fog. I let the wind take it. I watched as the fog swirled around the front of the house, then into the doorway area, and then out again to the graveyard. It was spooky and real.

If there was no wind and it was hot and muggy, the fog hung in the air and in the bushes. Again, very spooky.

I guess my point here is look at the total effect and you really can't fight Mother Nature. Just enjoy the show.

Originally Posted by Glyphen

I was told that coating the top of your ice in a chiller with salt makes the ice's temperature drop a few degrees. A fella told me they did it at a bar he worked at to make the beers colder. This is not something I have attempted so I don't know for sure.

I tried it and it seems to work. As it got colder, the fog wasnt laying down as well. {DOH!... it might have helped to if I had watered the lawn} So I salted the ice with Kosher salt, light fluffy and smaller like Margarita salt. It worked.

I also wrapped dry ice chunks in aluminum foil, and threw them in the air vent part of my coffin cooler. I figured the dry ice would last longer if the smoke and melting ice wasnt touching it directly. The smoke would come in contact with frozen metal. Next year I am going to get some Drink mixer type stainless cups, to put chunks of dry ice in.

I am sold on the coffin fog chiller. Nothing can go wrong. If its too cold, or too windy... at least you have a smoking coffin. And if the smoke machine dies, you still have a coffin.

First, I recommend using Froggy's Freezin' Fog. I used the Swamp Juice this year and it just didn't work as good. Second, I recommend the usage of a 3 or 4" PVC pipe FULL of ice (as in packed in) with as few holes in the pipe as possible and a good seal around the fog machine nozzle. I've tried the garbage cans and coolers and in my experience this pipe method works best.