Trying to build a crude mini Fog/Smoke Machine
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In this Halloween episode I will ditch the idea of an ultrasonic mist maker and instead focus on more common fog/smoke machines. I will show you how they use "fog juice" in order to create smoke and at the end I will come up with my own crude mini fog/smoke machine design that did actually work. Let's get started!
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Everything is a smoke machine, if you operate it wrong enough.
Haha true
lmao
that is the magic smoke that is required for every piece of electronics to work.
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Not only that but also some really scary smell which we're all too familiar with.
A video on how to make smoke machine? Pfft, I'm an expert at this. I turned a lot of my electronic projects into smoke machine.
Haha
No kidding. Me too.
I'm vaping while watching the making of a fog machine... hmmmm nice.
onetime I forgot my meat on the kitchen stove, my whole kitchen turned into a smoke machine...
The "see you next time" was extra enthusiastic in this video
It's been getting slowly more enthusiastic all this time...
He's a frustrated game show host.
That was after all the smoke inhalation
@@JaydenLawson I hope it did not happen as a side effect of breathing the smoke juice while experimenting
Indeed, this time is different XD
So long story short: you\ve made a giant electronic cigarette?
(Just kidding)
Kind of
@@greatscottlab that was my first thought
Swap out the fog juice with liquid and you have fog juice with a nice smell
If You fill it up with vape juice yes
By coincidence KaumiCosplay's video yesterday was on how to turn a vaping device into a small portable fog machine.
I've noticed something! First you built a lighting system for your "man cave", now you're building a fog machine... *YOU'RE CREATING A NIGHT CLUB*
And ," your breasts are showing".
Just waiting for a servebot
One very inportant note: glycerine based fog juice sould never be heated to a temperature higher than 200°C because at this temperature glycerine can break down into acrolein which is carcinogenic!
The Boiling temperature of fog juice still is around 100°C because it's mostly water.
Really? Well it makes sense... Also it should be a little above 100 due to boiling point increase
@@Adio_ There are more than one chemicals containing the word "glycol". the glycol referred to in this video is short for propylene glycol
NicLikesCake Probably not, propylene glycol is a food additive too.
Adio_ ethylene glycol is highly toxic for your kidneys.
@@tomf3150 propylene glycol is used in portable vaporizers, so I assume they use it in "fog juice" too
Congrats on making the biggest vape pen.
😂
LOL
and as we know from American Propaganda Media Machine, millions of people will die.
@@colepdx187 the whole vape propaganda in the media is BS..my belief is that putting anything in your lungs other than oxygen can't be good...and a tad bit of weed.lol..have a great day cheeeers.. LOL
I poured 40ml of 70/30 vape juice to my electric stove, made my room a hotbox in under 15 minutes
I think you can use a thicker gauge coil, just like in vaping coils, make it a lot smaller, and more effective, with a direct airflow to the coil, and exhaust port could use a nice trumpet with a flare for increased airflow as well, or eliminate it all together.
yeah using horizontal coil and dipping both enda in liquid works much better plus using kanthal removes dangerous fume situation
You're right, its all about that surface area. Flatwire or even a clapton would have produced more vapour.
I'll have to say: you are a mind-reading-genius!!
This is like the 5th or so time I was thinking about building something and about one week later, you upload a video!
Thank you very much!
I knew it ;-) Thanks for watching
I like these kinds of videos. It’s a practical, cheaper, and more creative solution. Also, your PCB sponsorships are really good. Great vid!
Thanks :-)
I did similar years ago to make an automotive evap system tester- Diesel glow plug wrapped in steel wool soaked in glycerine/glycol or whatever I had around. Put this in a small paint can. Run with a simple relay and worked pretty great. Great vid. Cheers!
foq machine, fuq juice
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Glad I'm not the only one who hear it that way.
"sucking up the fuq juice"
Ty..for taking your time and showing us the imagination of electronics.. Love your channel and especially all the projects..much appreciated..
Whenever I start to lose my interest in electronics *Great Scott* comes up with an interesting video.
Thank you very much :-)
I second that.. his videos motivate me to continue my studies in electronics engineering 😁😁
apart from the ingenious clips that GreatScott produces, electronics as a subject will never ever be boring (-:
Thats why I'm now watching all his videos one by one and learning them...
I love this channel. Even though this stuff is way over my head I feel like I'm slowly getting smarter
Brilliant!! Your channel is an inspiration to keep us studying and making fun things!
This is without a doubt as close to perfection as it can get. Nicely done!
Thank you :-)
Thanks! I was trying to make a mini fog machine to use with some 1 to 144 scale rockets i have in my shelf to make then "vent" like the real ones, i stopped working on it after a long time doing prototypes and never getting the results I wanted. Now I'll go back to the project to make it work!
1:53 no man, you are amazing! :)
We made fog machine when I was a schoolboy. It was very crude but was working like commercial models, made huge smoke. You had to heat a copper pipe with a submerge water boiler and you needed a persitaltic pump with a battery and a push button. Push button turned on a relay to heat the pipe and pumping started. 12V PC fan on the front and the party was set. We made the liquid as well as we were cheap. We got glycerine and we watered it up and added food aromas.
Great, Scott!
"Watch this German guy try to build a vape from scratch."
that's a cool project - GREAT 👍 SCOTT !!
What engineering he did. Simply awesome
I'm so happy i found this channel. Now i have something to watch while in lockdown. Any similar channel recommendations would be appreciated
Great I enjoyed the idea
he should meet electroboom if he wanna know about main voltage
The best youtuber for electronics!!!
Oh! FOG juice! Okay. Was hearing something entirely different.
A neat little application for MOSFETs. I more enjoyed the application of electronics than anything else :) Thanks for sharing.
Most of them use glycerine “smoke” like is used in e-cigarettes or “vapes”. You could make one very easily from a vape pen.
You can just buy pure vegetable glycerine from any pharmacy.
Yep, 100% vg
Can you get vape juice for $15/liter? You can get propylene glycol for that and glycerol is even cheaper. That then gets diluted.
Practically it is a vape:
The vape uses nicrome wire (mostly, you can use Kanthal too) to heat the "vape juice" (wich is composed of Vegetal glycerin, Aroma and Propylene Glycol). In vapes they usually use cotton for the wick, because it's cheap and it is easy to replace (to slip through the coil).
You can use a vape as a fog machine too (they are not expensive and most of them include protection circuit for overheating/short circuit), or you can use the "brain" of a vape to operate the fog machine.
Use kanthal mesh and cotton wick to improve your design.
Love these spooky episodes!
very nice video scott,
AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!
I made something like this a year or two ago. Mine was about 10x4x6 cm, remote controlled and powered by a lipo battery pumping out 50 watts or so. It was a lot of fun to see my friends freak out when I put it in their school bags and fog started to come out. I don't think it will generate the toxic fumes, the juice would need to get a lot hotter but can't since it leaves before it gets the chance but you probably came to the same conclusion. I did get some of the burn marks but only after powering it for quite long but it's definately not a perfect way to heat the juice.
I got one for you if you have not done it already. How can you make one of those servo testers from scratch? with manual mode, sweep, and maybe toggle between 2 positions. With no Arduino.
Welcome an the episode of building a vape with GreatScott!
And I am your host.
Brilliant.
Fantastic job, dude! Really nice!!! 😃
Great idea for halloween and Christmas 👌👍
I think, you could have used a glass-fiber wick, sumerged in 80% glycerine-solution. And if you put aroud a thick Kanthal wire, it should give off approx. 100W of heating power, inorder to produce a thick fog. You could still use ur Design, but it would produce an appropriate amount of fog for a pumpkin. I beleve, that this would work, because I tried out a similar design.
Good Video as always, keep it up! ^-^
You're the reason I use JLCPCB
KEEP up the good work
This is one of the few GreatScott episodes where i would be able to give you advice :D
Grab some 0.5mm NiCr wire, take 2 strands and twist them with a drill to create an even thicker wire with more surface area and ditch the wick and get some pure cotton, make a big coil and fill it with the cotton so that some cotton sticks out at both ends, lay it flat into the "tank" so that both cotton ends can pull up juice.
Yeah essentially like a big RDA, now current, with such wire and say 10 turns around a m6 bolt, you would need around around 150-300 watts power, depending on if you want short bursts of dense fog, or a constant stream of normal fog.
Thanks for the information :-)
I love your videos.
Nice experiment for halloween🦇
You should consider using vegetable glycerin with cotton and vape devices resistor wire instead it will work like a charm. Vape devices are made for that anyways. and it's just cotton, wire and a buck boost coverter to set the wattage.
Great
Scott!
See u next time
that is big like i dropping in.nice work
Very nice project 👍
what a flawless 3d printer
Very good 👍
The best fog machine is my classmate, Mark
LoL.
Are you lovers?
@@oscargr_ nah, he's just a cool guy to hang with
That's very cool :)
*"Propane Lamp Wick."*
The name of my new punk band.
The principles you've demonstrated line up exactly with how the entire vaping industry produces its electronics. The goal in the vaping industry is to hit a temperature between 350 and 420 degrees F to vaporize a mixture of Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerine, but the water mixed with Glycol (fog juice) also obviously produces a reasonably thick cloud of fog.
If you or anyone else does this again I'd recommend purchasing a very inexpensive commercial "RDA" from the vaping world, some Kanthal wire, and some cotton wick with pure Vegetable Glycerine as the "fog juice" element. Run it at 10 Watts of power with the Kanthal wire measuring at least 1.0ohm and you'll have yourself a fog machine that can run for hours.
You are the best ever
Greeting from egypt
Nice one! Tried this project some times in the past, but never made one thing working.
Wow a project I've actually done myself...I used the pump/ heater from my wife's old steam press when the hinge at the back broke....she got a new steam press I got a 'smoke' machine for my rave cave ..aka workshop...it worked really really well till I tried to mix my own smoke liquid which killed the pump 😢.... you've got me thinking about making another one....rave for Xmas anyone..
Few years ago I made mini smoke machine made of little ceramic pipe from broken iron (wire isolator in heating element) used as smoke machine core,heater made with hair dryer wire placed in ceramic pipe,and copper capillary from old fridge compressor wrapped around ceramic pipe and soldered one end to little brass container for smoke liquid,all connected ac transformer from old hifi and was working pretty good but didn't give a lot of smoke
Cool vid
Nice soldering Ai-ron you have there!
you can avoid toxic fume by also adding additional pump for feeding droplets of liquid from the top of thread so it won't get dry on top
Good idea
Nice video bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's basically a DIY e-cigarette. The tech is almost identical.
it IS identical
Happy Halloween
I work I’m the entertainment industry so I have first hand experience servicing and repairing fog machines, the hot liquid actually goes through a little box or cylinder filled with filament and at the nozzle it shrinks down to create a pressure inside to vaporise faster
you are one of the future mined person
Taking "It released the magic smoke" to a new level.
7:27 it's always funny when JCLPBC is sponsoring this video but he makes his own xd
Drinking Game.
Everytime he says Fog juice, take a drink.
Plastered in 9 minutes or less. 😊
Thak you man You're awesome. you made what I'm thinking about but i hope more smoke than this like a smoking pipe in parties.
Hi, thanks for the video. It would be great if you would list the tools you are using during the videos. It is always interesting to know which tool a Master is using! Thanks again!
as a vapor i know glycol pretty well :) good vid
6:35 smoke ring ^^
Small model steam trains used to have a light bulb under the chimney, so you drop a few drops of oil in the chimney and it would make smoke like a real steam train.
fog juice, best name ever
That's basically how a Vape works (RDA) with the difference that the vape juice is mainly composed of glycerine and propylene glicol
its funny tho that glycerine and glycol (not talking about propylene glyocol) are the same substance, just different ways of calling it.
@@Ramog1000 Nope. Glycerine == Glycerol. Glycol is just shortening of ethylene glycol or propylene glycol.
You could use the nichrome wire to heat a bigger surface, like a plate or pipe and use a peristaltic pump to drip vape juice over it. And since you're using an arduino anyway you could add a temperature sensor for overheat protection.
Just made an evap smoke machine the other day with basically the same principle. Instead of “fog juice” I used mineral oil which I would not recommend because it stinks. You can also use baby oil though.
Happy birthday bro.
Thanks bro, but my birthday was months ago.
😀 💚 belated happy birthday
Like you, your handwriting is also great! scott 😍
Try making some Vape type coils with tight loops touching the one b4. There r vids everywhere. But this is still awesome. I Love these videos
Hi, ich hab heute in meiner Ausbildung zum ersten Mal eine kleine Schaltung auf so einer Lochraster Platine zusammengelötet. :D Ist ein kleiner Transistoren-Prüfer.
Durch dich bin ich erst so richtig zum Elektroniker Beruf gekommen :) Danke dir. Mach weiter so
6:36 cool smoke ring
I suggest to use a vape liquid base (glycol or glycerin) and a more powerful heating element, then there will be a lot of smoke.
Glycerin for a thicher smoke, glycol for aroma/smell (if you add that too) and atibacterial effect.
Seems like fog/smoke is gonna be your haloween tradition
Nice design! Use fiberglass, or rock wool wick, as they can withstand very high temperature (because they aren't organic but silicon based) so that you can crank the power and therefore the output' you could also line the inside with aluminium foil as it will reflect the heat.
You can build this circuit with comparators and 555 timer ics instead of arduino
Comparator act as the signal for the low level of the fluid and 555 timer ics are used to generate PWM signal for fan and wire
First of all well done :) Second, I might be wrong, but I would put the nichrome coil in a copper tube (not touching obviously, the copper tube is just to resist the high heat from the coil). Then I would add the Ultrasonic Mist Maker to one end of the tube. This will make the Fog Juice as mist, giving it a better chance of contact with the coil and as a result, making more smoke. Now, this might not work at all, its just an idea :) Thank you
The fog is not thick enough. Its really neat though and could be improved on and made more awesome. Great idea.
Nice video.. one question though.. why didn't you use a copper tube ?? Air conditioning or refrigerator coil??
I think that you should make some sort of a high power heated thick walled chamber with temperature control where you need to spray that fog juice.
What would happen in you put your new heating element in front of your ultrasonic generator? Would the filament smoke the mist?
Try using ultrasonic mist generator to generate fine mist with the liquid and pass the mist through coils of wire, that would definitely generate more smoke.
Is it possible to use the piezo with the glycole/water smoke fluid?
nice
cool! another option would be to use a commercial vape heater chamber and build a fan and controller to drip liquid on it :)