People with foggers, got a quickish question!

[CoronaOperator]

I'm not sure it will fill a gym, maybe a small one, it's meant for small closed movie sets, but they do make real haze in an aerosol can in your price range. 8oz can is $12.75

http://www.norcostco.com/fantasyfx.aspx

[Gregory East]

What exactly are you breathing in with these things? Microscopic bits of oil in your lungs doesn't seem healthy to me.

[LelandCrooks]

They make me wheeze very quickly. When the fog machines start, I head for the corner.

[doncolga]

They make me wheeze very quickly. When the fog machines start, I head for the corner.

+1 That concerned me when I checked into this and also possibility of residue on everything. Be sure to look at Material Safety Data Sheets.

[DJPhatman]

Modern foggers/hazers now use water based juice, not oil based.

[SirNickity]

ADJ claims their mixes are pharmaceutical grade. Can't vouch for the off-brands, but I would expect the same of Chauvet, etc. I don't know if that's any consolation for someone with asthma for example, but at least it's non-toxic. If the bars / clubs in the area still allow smoking indoors, the fog is the least of your concerns though.

[CoronaOperator]

California osha results conclude that exposure to oil based haze is safe for durations of 40 hours/week for 50 years under normal stage concentrations.

http://www.reelefx.com/products/calosha.htm
http://www.ultratecfx.com/approvals/PDF ... ycerin.pdf
http://www.ultratecfx.com/approvals/PDF ... -11-02.pdf

Oil based haze does not make people weeze like glycol/water based foggers do and is virtually undetectable in air without a light source. Glycol/glycerine foggers/hazers are bad for respitory tract and eye irritation. Residue ... well thats what glass cleaner and a rag are for ... dust bunnies everywhere (its the least of your clean-up worries after a party, takes weeks/months to build up)

[DJ Higgumz]

Yea I'm not worried about irritations or breathing problems, if that was an issue they would be Outlawed

[Gregory East]

...just like cigarettes

at least here you can't smoke indoors anywhere but your own home.

[DJ Higgumz]

After seeing a vid online, im gonna build my own hazer, the only problem I have is the size of air compressor, do I go by horsepower or psi? Lookin at like little football pumps for like 100$, about 1/4 hp, get around 100 psi.

idk if I need to start an account on a lighting forum, or what. But any help is appreciated

[biggerrigger]

Check with your local venues, and even the fire marshal. Most fire marshals have barred their use, and even where it is not barred, a lot of venues don't allow them.

With that said, +1 on the hazer over a fogger.

They have barred the use of foggers or hazers?

[DJPhatman]

Check with your local venues, and even the fire marshal. Most fire marshals have barred their use, and even where it is not barred, a lot of venues don't allow them.

With that said, +1 on the hazer over a fogger.

They have barred the use of foggers or hazers?

Here in south eastern Michigan, the vast majority of banquet halls have, yes. I never gigged in bars/pubs, so I have no idea about them. Even my local B.P.O. Elks club, who were wickedly opposed to a complete smoking ban in their building, as it has 3 separate rooms, 2 of which are non-smoking, barred the use of fogger/hazers.

[mattaudio]

Do hazers get hot at all? I'm interested in using one for a light show in a barn, but I want to be super careful about anything that heats up. Thanks!

[DJ Higgumz]

Generally no, but my lemaitre xs does, but it doesn't need rehat cycles. I think the heating of it just super charges the process

[bitSmasher]

Lookin at like little football pumps for like 100$, about 1/4 hp, get around 100 psi

how many of them would you need to burn out before it's more economical to buy a purpose-built hazer?