Double Cauldron Fog Chiller

My cauldron fog chiller worked so well last year, I decided to make another.  However, it seemed like a waste to use all that space and ice for just one fogger, so I made it a double chiller!

There's hardly any work involved.  Take a large plastic cauldron, cut two holes, put a couple dryer vent hoses in there, and fill with ice.  Simple, very effective, and best of all, you can plop this thing right in the middle of your haunt for an awesome effect!

I suggest you use no more than a 400 watt fogger with these.  I tried a 700 watt fogger on my old cauldron, and the fog shot straight up and splood all over the place.  This chiller is just not capable of handling that much fog...at least as it is now.  If you added another length of dryer vent hose it would probably work well, but it's going to be a bit cramped for two foggers.  Not sure you'd get much ice in there.

Anyway, here's the pics:

I got a little too aggressive with the ice, I think.  I must have jammed too much into one of the hoses, making the fog bounce back out towards the fogger.  Even then, the fog was chilled pretty well! heh

The biggest difference between this and last year's chiller, aside from the extra fogger, is the lack of foam filler.  After thinking about it, I saw how silly it was to use that stuff.  It makes drying out the cauldron a hassle, I can't add or remove lights from it, it makes the whole thing harder to store without damage, and it doesn't do much of anything except save me about fifty cents of ice.  The dryer hoses are held in place by the ice, and after Halloween, the hoses can be compressed again and removed, so one doesn't have to worry about banging up the end that sticks out.

Really the only flaw with this fog chiller is the need to experiment and 'tune' it for best performance, but considering I've only done so a total of three times, and still get great results, it's hard to complain.

I considered trying to place the fogger inside the cauldron, but keeping the ice and melted water off of it was going to be difficult, especially with a 400 watt heat source right under the ice.  Refilling the fogger with fluid would have been an extra challenge.

Few people notice the fogger outside the cauldron, and some don't notice it at all, despite the fact I made very little effort to hide it.  Quite a few people, including my photographer friend (one would assume photographers are good at spotting details) thought I used dry ice for the fog.