Thread: Haze, fog, or aerosol?

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I'll be placing the laser vortex I'm building in a room that's about 12x16 w/ 8ft ceilings. I plan on running this thing for 10-11 hours each day for 5-6 days, so I'm concerned about how to optimize the fog setup. Because it will remain in a room with the door at least covered with fabric, I expect most of what is generated to hang around, so it only needs to fire rarely.

Do you think my standard fogger is what I should use, or would some of that aerosol fog "magic" spray work as well? Any other ideas for generating the haze that will just hang out while the vortex does its thing? Like some kind of humidifier hack or something. Trying to figure out how to keep the cost down on something that'll keep the atmosphere right for that long.

All I have ever used is a fogger, so I can't comment on the others.. With the room partially enclosed, it sounds like a cheap 400w fogger should do the job efficiently.

A small fogger with froggys fog swamp juice will be your foundation.

I think it is possible to use a timer control trigger to do this. Set on a very short burst and long interval timer control may be all you need. It may over-do it.

Consider using a prop1 controller and hack a wireless trigger or button trigger. This way you can have a much greater granularity of control over the burst and interval timing which you can then fine tune for the most effective result.

Another option is to monitor the room with an infrared camera, and use a wireless trigger from a central monitoring and control area as needed.

Run a small line into a bottle of Baby Lotion, with maybe just a pin hole of air coming in under pressure it will atomize the Baby Oil and produce a haze or fog as it comes out the upper open end of the bottle (I think this is how it works?)
One of these ran for years in a professional haunt and used a very small amount of the Baby Oil and only left a very small oily spot on the floor below the exit nozzle.
Anytime you put anything into the air in a confined space somebody can be affected in a bad way so be aware or your patrons who may have trouble breathing in such a room.
"Was it Scary?"
"It sure was! I fell down, couldn't breathe, I thought I was going to die, right there!"
(Not what we want to hear.)

Wow, oil cracking...havent heard that one in 10+ years.
You can ask some haunts who used it in the past, it lays down a film everywhere, making the floor and surfaces first slick, then over time, gummy.

I would not be interested in breathing any petrochemical regardless of the source or minutea.

Here is the method
FreeFog

Here is some remarks from wolfstone reference pages
Oil-Cracking Fog Machines

I recommended froggys simply because they start with ultrapurified water (9 step RO and chemical distillation process) and them use pharma grade chemicals to ofrmulate the fog solution.

No matter what you out into the air there will be some inhalation, but I would prefer it to be pharma grade glycerol derivatives.

If you want to be very concerned over inhalation, you should set up an exhaust system to clear the room between queue groups and re-haze before the new group enters.
This too could be easily controlled with the prop1 (by EFX-Tek) or a hauntbots controller.

BTW, you can create a hazer by adding a fan in front of the fogger output and then a diffuser in front of the fan.
You can get muffin fans surplus for cheap.
Or you can spend the extra money to buy a hazer.