tv smoking

[armybert]

hi everybody, I'm new to the forum

 

I need to build a broken tv that will be smoking like it had a short circuit for like 15 - 20 minutes.

 

I've got an old tv, I'll take all the stuff inside out, and put (some smoke device) inside, so the smoke will get out from the back and the broken screen.

 

I was thinking on using a fog machine but I've heard they may get too hot, and the tv would burn. I think dry ice would be too messy, and I even thought on using some incense, cigarettes? haha.. obviously I want to keep it safe, and if I could turn it on/off remotely it would be a plus.

 

 

thanks

[Jamtastic3]

small el cheap smoke machine? We used one for one show when we had to show the inside of a car engine was seizing(sp?) up.

[3guk]

Yep get a maplins jobbie !!

 

£50 each if I remember correctly and should give a great effect. Just the occasional spurt every now and again will do !!

[J Pearce]

A bright blue LED flashing to simulate arcing might help deepen the effect.

[mac.calder]

If you are worried about the heat, you can place a pipe a small distance away from the smoke machines outlet to pipe the smoke to the location you require it (you do not place the pipe directly over the nozzel!) (or buy a kit which uses a spacer)

[Freddie]

Tiny Fogger (Look Solutions, Whitelight have them I think)?

[andy_s]

Tiny Fogger (Look Solutions, Whitelight have them I think)?

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nice bit of kit, probably the right thing for the job, but the size:price ratio might be a bit prohibitive - £500 ish??? last time I looked

[jamienip]

Cheap small smoke machine.. click here

[V.A.]

If you are worried about the heat, you can place a pipe a small distance away from the smoke machines outlet to pipe the smoke to the location you require it (you do not place the pipe directly over the nozzel!) (or buy a kit which uses a spacer)

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I'm probably being totally ignorant here, but why can't the pipe be over the nozzle?

[Freddie]

I think it's something to do with heat. Apparently, the nozzle of a fogger reaches very high temperatures (PVC pipe melting temperatures - I think)

[mac.calder]

The fog is created when it makes contact with the air. If it is piped before mixing, it looses too much heat before it gets to the other end to create a fog (IIRC)

[V.A.]

oooh, didn't know that!! Thankyou!

[Jamtastic3]

Cheap small smoke machine.. click here

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I'm sure you can get that smoke machine out of Woolworths. There's definately a cheap model like that in the place.

Who would have thought, Woolies selling smoke machines.......

[Freddie]

It's too early I know, but ASDA do a cheap as chips one in their halloween season (So that's from around August then...)

[Brian]

I'm probably being totally ignorant here, but why can't the pipe be over the nozzle?

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Because smoke machines don't really make smoke. What they make is a suspension of condensed particles. They heat up a liquid so that it turns into a gas which gets ejected through a nozzle where it hits the cooler air which makes it condense it very small droplets which give the illusion of smoke. So if you stick a pipe right on the end it'll simply condense in the pipe.