Thread: PVC & Frozen Water Bottles?

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Here is the setup-

A VEI 929 1000watt fogger and a gallon of Froggys Fast Dissipating Indoor Fog fluid.

I have a 6 foot section of PVC, 4 inches wide.

I was planning on filling it with frozen water bottles.

Will this give me a good chilling effect?

I know some people prefer dry ice or trash can chillers, but I also know some have had excellent results with a set-up similar to mine.

Any comments or suggestions?

I bought a 5" PVC irrigation? pipe from lowes. One with no holes / slits. I drilled a few holes in it and poured in a 1.5 bags of ice> Dunno weight / size... just typical size ice bags. And it chilled quite a bit. However, i wasn't impressed with the volume.

I'm going to try using PVC pipe, with a Y, and use the Y pointing towards the out. So when I hook up my small fan to the top pipe, it "sucks" out or Siphons the fog out and pushes it further than 6'.

Mine? Worked, with ice, yes. But my overal coverage went down quite a bit. Maybe you won't have as much of an obstruction being bottles that's curved.

We did this one year (outside). Got pretty thick fog, which was immediately disappated by the sudden windstorm. We did spend a lot of time replacing the water bottles tho....it was about 80F outside, so they melted pretty fast, and produced a lot of condensation (so keep your pipe away from anything you don't want wet). It seemed like a lot of work for the effect, we're working on a trash can chiller instead.

Stacy

I've been using frozen water bottles inside 12 feet of flexible plastic conduit for years and it works beautifully - laying a thick, low cloud of fog which creeps over the ground for quite a while. The conduit is black and flexible so I can snake it through the shrubs and no one can figure out where it comes from. I just step on the switch when a TOT comes along and WHISH fog swirling around their feet.

You should make a connector with PVC pipe (about 6 inches) to fit over the output from the fogger and then duct tape that to the conduit. Just put the PVC right up to the fogger output, place the conduit, cover with leaves and you're good to go.

Good luck.

I use the frozen water bottles in a 10 foot piece of 3 inch pvc and it works well. Bottom line is if it's windy, it doesn't matter what kind of fog fluyid you use, it's going to dissipate. On a relatively calm night, you should have good results with this method.