Thread: Found a great product at Home Depot for fog chillers!

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Okay... when we made our current fog chiller, we used some Walmart-found RV camper sewage drain hose. It's basically heavier duty accordion style ducting. I needed to cut and install sections of plastic pipe (speaker box porting tubes) to keep it extended and long enough for the path inside the cooler. Much more work than needed because of adding that tubing.

Home Depot has this stuff! Its similar to the extending, positionable gutter drain deflectors, except its 25 feet long!!! Its for landscaping drains. Its rigid, can be extended, turned, kinked, whatever you need. Yes, it is twice the price I paid for the sewage drain hose, but it doesn't need the added sections of pipe inside. Plus, the corrugated nature of the inside surface adds more surface area for the icy cold water to transfer heat out of the fog and get it much colder.







I'm using this stuff for our second fog chiller for the other side of the yard. Now I just need to figure out which size of pipe connectors will fit this stuff exactly, to punch in and out of the cooler walls...


BE WARNED!!!

There is a version of this that has perforated holes, for draining into the soil. YOU WANT THE SOLID STUFF. Make sure you get the version without the small holes.

i use the perf version straight out of my fog machines instead of a chiller

works surprising good! not as good as a chiller, the fog doesn't hug the ground as well as using a chiller, but a whole bunch easier

there are numerous posts about using this

amk