I went ahead and pulled the trigger on one of these this year. For the experiment, I just used a $12 tote with foam window sealer from the hardware store. The bilge vent pump managed to pull almost all escaping fog into the pipe so no real leaks. It was great. Just ran a couple small ~360W leftover foggers into the top. I was worried that because it was cold (32F) it would fail miserably. Absolutely not! It worked flawlessly, air was completely still, just freezing. Fog rolled from house to the street without dissipating (~60 ft on a ~4% grade). Worked so well I'm going to build a duplicate for the other half of the yard next year. Great fun.

You sir are a legend for figuring this out. I've built several fog chillers with varying results but ultimately they were all a PIA due to the ice. I used an old cooler chest, 1300w fogger and froggy's bog fog with this method and I get insane amounts of low lying fog! Best part is being able to test and tweak anytime I want without needing to load ice each time. Very innovative and changed my setup for the better!

I've purchased all the gear for my setup this year. Can't wait to try it out in a few days! Thank you for sharing all the details. You've definitely put in the time/effort to perfect this setup. Thank you Robert!

Really love this setup, I’ve been fighting with my fog for years, constantly trying new things but this might be my setup for next year. Looks awesome, thanks for the video 👏🏻

Nice job. I made one of these immediately after your first video went live. It’s been a game changer. Thanks for sharing!

I loved your first video and I've shared it several times. I made one of your first version and have wanted to improve it. Now you've given me additional ideas. I'll just have to get through Christmas first before I get back into Halloween props.

It looks AWSOME! Here in Germany slowly people decorate there houses more and more for Halloween. For next year I will add a fooger with your suggestion to my haunt. Thank you very much for sharing.

Great work as always. And a nice update to the original design. Thanks so much for sharing!

Having seen it in person last Halloween, it is a really nice effect. Plus, no having to worry about filling with ice!

so incredible as usual my friend! love how the fog just lingers for a while!

I built a Robert's fogger based on your original video; but, I used a storage tote as I needed a larger surface for my Chauvet Hurricane 1302 1200w fogger to fit onto. I also bought a cheap 400w fogger from big lots as a secondary fogger and tested it on this setup. Even that little fogger has enough potential to successfully pull this effect off for the yard. My Hurricane 1302 inevitably ends up giving the whole block a fog effect. I really love this fog machine for its timer settings and large storage tank. I usually just run it somewhere around 1/3-1/2 output. At this setting the 1302 can do this constantly for 2-3 hours without intervention. Combined with a 4" inline duct fan you get a perfect and constant fog rate. I really appreciate this design as a simple plug and play very mobile setup. I hadn't thought about using one of these wheeled tool boxes or totes and using a power distribution block to make it one cord. The 10 head pnd fogger I bought from amazon has a sealed weather proof powersupply that came with it. That thing get extremely hot. There is no way I would put it into a box. I'm looking for a sheet of aluminum to mount it to help sink the heat. It gets untouchably hot within a half hour. How hot does that setup get in that weather resistant box you've got?

After using a combo of dry ice and ice blocks for my chiller I want to try this. I love the idea of having a no ice chiller.

I'm building one of these this weekend. Thanks for the video!

This is awesome!!! Thank you for the breakdown. I’m building mine next year for sure💨💨💨💨

That shot back toward the house had a LOT of atmosphere to it. Well done!

I ❤ this stuff, really want to learn how to make a mini version around my swimming pool with different colours LED light.. perfect for summer

Wow that makes amazing fog. Ingenious, great invention.

This is amazing! the smoke looks so good!

WOW that's some impressive work! I might have to work on piecing together a system like this over the course of next Summer for Halloween of next year when I'll be home to do my big spread in my driveway.

Im trying this out this year. I was testing the mist maker and after an hour of running the water was really warm. I havnt hooked up the fog machine yet but am really excited to give it a try. This will be for a graveyard. I also run three other fog machines, 2 misters & 2 humidifiers. We started a haunted woods trail a few years ago and I'm always looking for more ways to improve my set-up. Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Nice build and amazing results. I've thought about trying my own version since your original video. I'd like to try to add a microcontroller with sensors (temperature, humidity, "dust", wind speeds, etc.) and see if I can tune it to produce optimum results in a wide range of circumstances. I also wanted to experiment with how much mist is actually needed. There are "reptile" humidifiers that produce a lot of mist with just a single ultrasonic head.

Who doesn't need a good fog machine? So cool 😎

Try making your own fog juice. Most pre-made stuff is like 80% water and water doesn't fog well with these machines. I would do 1 part Vegetable Glycerin, one part Propelyne Glycol and 1 part water. You're gonna get MUCH thicker clouds with that mixture. There are a handful of other youtubers that do stuff like this too. That's how I found out about just making your own concoction for fog juice.

be glad you just bought the float man i tried making one and even got everything like the relative buoyancy down and the unit weight and the insert height and all that everything you could think of and it was ridiculous trying to dial it in to float at the right height. if youre reading this and thinking about making one just dont just buy the damned thing so it keeps the exact right height because any deviation from it means either not enough fog or not enough water coverage on the device.

You should put a vented corrugated pipe cap on the end. Acts as a bit of resistance to pressure more fog out of the pipe holes.

I think this is really cool, and I applaud you sir :-)

Great job. Looks good

Looks good.

I think we've about got this thing figured out! Looking great!

Fan bloidy tastick! Creative and innovative! Great work dude! 25$ smoke machine!! 10 out of 10, and yoh get the ourple dragin stamp.

This is really cool. Thank you.

Very cool setup

Looks great awesome job thanks

GREAT IDEA! The mister is cooling the fog! You know what you can do to increase the output of that fog machine by 10 times. Ditch the fog fluid and use distilled water and glycerin. 70% glycerin (food grade) and 30% distilled water.

Thank you for sharing

Awesome beard my man!

Simply perfect and effective... great! 👻🤩

nice work!!

Thanks for the update. I needed a better tote, thanks for the recommendation! Because as I learned it doesn't matter how much weatherstrip you use and then I duck taped the CRAP out of it and it still leaked. It took me forever to take it back apart after the Haunt was shut down. I too bought the stupid expensive float just because I didn't want to mess with it either. $35 is just crazy.

This is brilliant.

This is really neat, hide that under some "brush" and up onto your porch and that'll be a neat little trick

Super cool. Glad to see you kept iterating on your original idea. How much moisture do you get collecting on the floor if you run this indoors?

Thanks!

I'll be making one of rhese this week. I'll have to make a video of it.

freeking awesome!! try and wet the yard with water and the fog will stick better.

I built a ground fogger similar to yours but a larger scale. I used a large dewalt rolling tool box with a 12 head ultrasonic atomizer. I also run a commercial 1500 watt fog machine and a blower. It works great. Question - does the power supply for the atomizers get really hot being in that box? Mine gets pretty hot and I keep it outside of a box. Just curious

That is an impressive cover of low-lying fog without the usual "vortex" and other ice-based chillers out there. I probably still have a few of my modified coolers with the metal mesh on a raised PVC frame but you always ended the night with so much ice wasted - so much water everywhere - so much rock salt to make the ice colder - not easily portable - the trash-can fog chillers were great but still a huge non-portable mass and the same issues with the residual water that was wasted. I love that this has no ice at all yet gets phenomenal results. Obviously it was a still night when you filmed this, and yet I can still see the immediate benefits for overall haze/fog even if there's a breeze. What's your water consumption per hour with the US mister heads? How much time can you run on one fill of the main box before the floats get too low for the US mister to have water over it (i.e. what's the "set it and forget it" time)? Do you find different results depending on the fog juice used, or does the type of juice bear less relevance with the US mister and the vent fan? Danke! well done - great ideas!

Fascinating - all looks very enterprising 👍🏼 Can you mix lawn feed with the water?

Thumbs-up for the epic beard!!

It was better IMHO before you added the black hose, it really was great 🎃👍!

This is awesome and really cleverly compact! The one thing I'm not clear on is how the fog gets down into the chamber. Is the output spout of the fog machine just spraying the fog stream towards the pvc pipe inlet and the fog just goes in due to the suction from the outlet fan?

Hi Robert-- Love what you've done. Is your tubing 3"? How did you cut the black corrugated tubing (is there on long cut that goes the entire length of the tubing or are there multiple shorter horizontal cuts? What is the shower drain piece-- is it threaded on one side and if so, what did you use to lock it in place on the inside?

Does humidity outside have any noticeable effect? Out in Florida our Halloween nights are usually so humid the grass is completely wet. I would think that would make it easier to get this effect but I’m always fighting with my chiller (ice in a bucket style and fog directly hits ice). I don’t get nearly as much coverage as you even with a 1000w fogger running froggy’s bog fog. Think I might experiment with this a bit for next year

Great setup. Awesome work. Could you please share the details on the ultrasonic mister and the power used for it?

Sometimes a foggy idea is a good thing.

Maybe I have missed the "equipment" list.. but is there a list of parts/items so that can go out and purchase what you have built? It just looks awesome 😀😀😀

getting this video just in time for halloween!

looks good without the corrugated tube imo

You could combine all this equipment into an Amazon list, then it would be easy to see it all combined. Thanks for the video! Have you considered setting a timer of some sort on your fan so it doesn't push all the fog away from the tubing? It would be cool to install some sort of relay that's connected to the fogger.

How long does the water last before you have to fill it again as you are running the mist?

I have been wanting to make one of these out of either a Packout dolly, or one of those giant husky totes, cause I wanna put 2 or even 3 ultra sonic fighters in there, and my big fog machine.

truly impressive! can i ask what 12v transformer you got for the vent fan system?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Quick question. What size pipe elbows for the entry section where the fog machine fog goes into the box? They look to be about 3" to me. Also on the output side, they look to be about 4". It looks like the dryer hose is 4" before it gets to the blower. I do believe the blower/fan is 3.5" and then the perforated drain pipe is 4", Did you have to use any adapters or reducers? Just wanted to verify all this before I start buying the pipes. Lastly, In your video you show a duplex outlet inside the control box. But I count 3 connections needed. One for the mister power supply, one for the blower/fan transformer, and one for the small extension for the fogger. Am I confused or did you somehow hard-wire the mister power supply? Thanks again for all the great content.

Did you place the fan at the end of the dryer tube for a reason? The reason I ask is that I would like to have my output branch of to a set of 3 small grave stones that spit out the fog as well as the 4” irrigation tube. I was thinking of using a “Y” connector to split the fog and having that right after the fan. I am using a 1000 fogger.

Wow this looks amazing! I am interested in design. Can you also share the shower drain and water proof connector links?

I have a wiring question. Perhaps I missed this but I've gone over the video many times and taken screen shots. - a single black extension cord (from the house) comes into the duplex box - the duplex box has 2 outlets. outlet 1 goes to the orange cord for the fog machine. outlet 2 goes to the fan control which then goes to the fan - the silver power supply goes to the ultrasonic mister where does the silver power supply get its power if only a single extension cord comes into the overall box and the duplex box already has both outlets in use? should I just run 2 black extension cords into the overall box or add something to the duplex box so I can get one more plug (for the silver power supply)?

Are your pvc fittings 2"? And whst size is the drain you used on the outlet side? Thanks for the awesome setup!

New to this. What fogger do you use?

I’m making a Roberts Fogger this year and am super excited! I bought the 10 head mister but am wondering about the float. I’m a super novice when it comes to stuff. Do I need a float for the mister or can I just plunk the mister into the bottom of the “chiller box”?

That works really well, nice job! What mister are you using inside the bin? Is the misting unit something you built or can I buy it on Amazon?

I'm sure if you did add some ice to the water in the box it would hug the ground even more. I know where I live the heat makes the ice fog chillers not work as great. Phoenix AZ is still warm up to the middle of November.

Just curious, how fast does the ultrasonic misters go thru water? I'm thinking of trying this but using a separate plastic tub for the misters but don't want to have to keep filling it non stop.

What size inlet and outlet on that blower? I think I'm going to redo mine to incorporate some of the new mister ideas out there.

I think I would put a cover on the end of the black hose so it gets pushed out the slot better.

Ibet if you capped off the end of the black tubing, it would give you more fog coming out along the whole length of the black tube presenting a better fog blanket

Do you have an instruction video on the "control box" power supply ,duplex outlet, transformer, speed controller? Also wondering if you have links to the items you used?

So if it's only using water, would it be safe to assume this would cause a slipping hazard if I use this indoors on a dancefloor on the assumption that it would make the floor more humid?

give us an amazon part list, this looks amazing!!!!

Hey what is the waterproof connector you have mounted in the lid of the box? You don’t have it in your supply list thanks

Outstanding setup. However, I really wish you had provided web links to everything you purchased, rather than vague search terms. That way we'd know what sizes, manufacturer, models, etc... of the fan, the power supply, the ultrasonic mister, and things like that. I can't tell if you're using a 3 inch or a 4 inch duct fan, If it's a marine bilge fan, or if it's a dryer duct fan. All of that info would have been extremely helpful. Otherwise, great video.

This is my project next year for sure. Tired of getting the ice box system to not work every year. Is there a video where you happen to have the materials listed out in writting or anything?

Yo this was great information! Thanks for walking through your setup. Off topic just wanted to say because I saw your username. Eejanaika is my #1 😅

I really appreciate you man! You and oak lane cemetery for this build as I’m currently buying parts for this now. Hopefully you’ll respond but do you have a video of how the box was put together the electrical box with the plug and extension cords. Thanks man also subbed to you! 🎃

What are your outdoor temperatures when using this? We are often wearing jackets when I would run one with temps around 45-50 F.

So this is using a mister instead of burning fog juice correct? This lays lower than even the dry ice fig machine I have, im fascinated with this but I cant believe it still.

One question I have huge condensation build up fill the fan bubble in minutes. Do you have that issue? How to rectify?

Sorry, is there a parts list? I'm very interested is the float and mister

How often do you fill the container up with water?

how did you mount your power supply to the box?

Love this build can u send me a parts list

Can you show what it’s like with only the fog with the fan on through the black tube? Then with only the mister and the fan on with the black tube?

Has anyone tried Froggy's Poseidon Aqua Fog Fluid in this kind of build?

What fog juice are you using with your fogger?

Can you include a link for that misting unit in the description?

Do you think the fog is “heavy” enough to roll off of a 2nd story balcony?

Works exactly the same as the Chauvet Cloud 9 or Chauvet Cumulus.

That’s really cool, I did something similar using irrigation PVC piping with pre cut holes to better control the fog. If I may suggest you will get better results investing in a better fog machine, I have a Chauvet Hurricane, that machine is a BEAST. Check them out.

I'm not sure how much ice costs in the US but in the UK its just £1 for a large bag fill the box with 2 bags of ice, why pay more, maybe find or build a box out of polystyrene for insulation.

Sorry, I missed the connector link, my bad. I see it now.

I want to build this and save some money, how worth it is it to use the toolbox VS a standard plastic tote?