Fog Chiller v2

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Last year, I constructed a fog chiller for the 2004 haunted house. It worked decently, but it required lots of space and the setup was rather tedious with all the power cables and coolant lines. That and my dislike of the design led me to explore other fog chilling options.

I did some searching around on the Halloween Monster List compiled by Mark Butler, to find a better design.

There where certain things I wanted in the design. First, I had to have most of the parts or be able to get them cheaply. Second, It had to be self contained and have few moving parts. I wanted a small footprint with this one. Lastly, I wanted a large amount of surface area for the fog to dissipate it's heat.

A couple designs I saw met my criteria, but one in peticular caught my eye. The Ultimate fog chiller by Adam Tourkow. His design consists of many feet of flexible aluminum dryer exhaust tubing coiled in a small trash can. The trash can is filled with ice and fog passed through the Dryer tubing. There is a very respectible length of tubing so there is alot of surface area for the heat to be drawn out of the fog. It's simple and easy to build, but the best part of it all is its cost. This device an be built for very little amount of money!

So with the design in mind, I set off to build my own Ultimate Fog Chiller.

Upon completetion of the chiller Steve and I filled it with ice and fired up the fogger. The results where quite dissapointing. The fog was chilled, but only slightly. Last year's model worked much better. Oh well, it only cost me $20 to build and now I'm content with knowing that this doesn't work. On to the next design!

10/16/05