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That was an ultrasonic based unit. Several manufacturers have similar products out. We’ve played with them; if it’s for an install situation they are great but real world touring they just don’t work - there’s basically a baking tray full of water in them so before you move them there’s a whole boot up / shut down procedure to do and if you forget to do it you end up dumping fluid/water everywhere.

 

The Martin glaciator is industry standard.

The antari DNG 100 or DNG 200 is a mighty machine for the money but tricky to get serviced / regassed so decide how durable and what sort of use you expect before buying.

 

ALL chiller machines are very susceptible to air flows. I now always spec 2 machines (1 either side of the performance space) so that if the air is going in the wrong way there’s still one machine pumping fog on to the stage.

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There was a low fogger being demo'd at ABTT that didnt use CO2 or ice so an alternative to the glaciator but can I remember its name?

That was very likely the MT-Electronic Aqua Fog Vario unit. I saw that first at PLASA couple of years ago and was VERY impressed with the selectable level/type of fog (dry ice effect, regular fog, or a 'cloud' layer at a specifiable height... www.mt-electronic.com

I've never quite understood why these haven't taken off over here as the obvious benefits are huge, but if what Tom says applies to this machine then maybe that's the case.

But still very impressive.

 

 

 

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Chauvet have one called Cumulus and it excllent. It bult in a flught case and it uses disstilled water and some hazer fluid.

 

https://www.chauvetdj.eu/products/cumulus/

 

That's quite neat. It appears to be a pond fogger with a pump continually circulating water to the atomiser reservoir for cooling and to keep it at the correct level. I'd guess the fog fluid is just dosed into the distilled water on each fill to get the correct density of fog.

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That’s exactly how they work.

 

Part of the problem with some models is that they are literally a baking tray full of pond foggers hence the difficulties moving them. I don’t know the Cheveut one but it looks a lot like a generic Chinese model rebadged and that one is a baking tray...

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The keywords on YouTube for a whole range of similar looking machines from China are "water low fog".

 

I'm a bit surprised at the ratings of 2kW and 3kW as that is huge for an ultrasonic fogger. Even the ten head pond units are only rated around 300W.

 

If the ultrasonic atomiser disks are being driven very hard then heat could limit the run time of these. The thing that really kills atomiser disks is heat.

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from what some of you have said here made me go and look up pond foggers and I can say for sure that what is in side the on I posted a link to its a bit like the one in this youtube video for one part and the 2 part is a smoke/hazer machine in the case as well as 2 fans and some water pumps

 

 

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If everyone permits me to sidetrack this thread slightly, has anyone any recommendations for a good, small, low fogger? The sort of thing that could fit in a car boot and might be used in a small room or on the corner of a stage for an entrance effect.

 

There's one popular design that ADJ brand "Mr Kool" which is fine in terms of output but reliability hasn't been great. (Due in part, at least, to customer abuse) However I'd be happy to pay more for something more reliable but can't quite justify something Cumulus-sized for small dry hires.

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There’s dozens of heads inside them.

 

One we looked at had a small smoke machine inside it too.

 

Plus don’t forget the Chinese one-upmanship ratings & numbers on technical equipment.

 

The standard ultrasonic slab typically has ten disks on it. I wonder if they use multiple slabs.

I wasn't expecting a separate fog machine. That could account for the high power rating.

Now it makes me wonder if they are dosing the fog fluid into the water or if it's being added as a continuous stream into the output.

 

Previous experiments showed that adding some smoke fluid to the water in a traditional ultrasonic room humidifier created a useful haze in the air.

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The standard ultrasonic slab typically has ten disks on it. I wonder if they use multiple slabs.

I wasn't expecting a separate fog machine. That could account for the high power rating.

Now it makes me wonder if they are dosing the fog fluid into the water or if it's being added as a continuous stream into the output.

 

Previous experiments showed that adding some smoke fluid to the water in a traditional ultrasonic room humidifier created a useful haze in the air.

 

From what I know of the one I have used that I have. It has one slab from what I can see and from what I was told there is a heater for the fog fluid and one for the water. If I get time over the weekend I will put a camera in side the distilled water chamber and see if I can see a what happens inside it. I will also try and take photos of the inside as well.

There is 2 drain valves on the back to drain the distilled water off. you have to pour the distilled water in to one chamber which holds 5 liters and when you switch on the machin it pumps it from the chamer to another one where the ultrassonic slabe is to a set level. The fog fluid pipe that comes from the fog tank goes the into a panel on the other side of the tank away from where the distilled water is.

 

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