...users make is assuming they can just go buy a cheap fogger from the Halloween store using their $10 per gallon "low lying fog fluid" and come home and make low-lying fog. First, the fog will not lay down on the ground directly out of the fogger, since it is 190 degrees when it leaves the fogger nozzle, so it rises into the air. And using the cheap fog fluid you can get in department stores that claim "low lying" in the name will never behave how you want it to in low-lying fog scenes, since it is effectively the same cheap, watered down formula as their regular fog fluid. And, even if you are using actual, professional grade "low lying" fog fluid, that will do nothing to chill the fog to make it lay on the ground - it is still just as hot as the fog that comes from standard mix fog fluid and will rise into the air just as immediately.

Probably as common as this misconception is would be how often people seeking low fog get duped from unscroupulous temporary Halloween type outlet store owners who trick them into thinking their machines will deliver what everyone is looking for: cold fog. We find so many disappointed buyers coming to us after they have already bought a fog machine from this type of store with strict no-refunds policies and it didn't make low fog, so they return to the same store and buy yet another machine, this one claiming to make cold, low-lying fog.... but it doesn't. It makes semi-cooled-down fog that rises into the air almost as fast as the typical fog machine. Now they are stuck with 2 machines that don't do what they wanted to start with.

Since " ground-fog" or "Halloween fog" machines such as the Mister Kool and similar are, from what we have personally seen, all machines that are based on early technology that we developed on the decade-long journey to developing the Vortex chiller line you see here. These small "breakthroughs" and techniques that had worked to some small degree had once been posted as how-tos on the internet in an effort to share the known methods of chilling fog that was as of yet unperfected. These products now sold in stores from big box to the temporary outlets are clearly unable to produce a truly chilled fog - for many reasons. We know exactly what these reasons are and why they don't really work. We took those instructions (similar how-tos of our originals still remain across the internet, usually showing a fogger sitting on top of a cooler with a bend industion inlet connecting the two as we first showed in the mid 90's) down off the internet so people wouldn't waste their time repeatedly making these contraptions that almost worked. We now offer such offordable chillers in all sizes that it makes no sense to try to assemble one yourself, since purchasing the saws and specialy tools needed to actually assemble one in the correct way for it to work like you see on our videos would cost more than the chiller itself.

Some folks will nevertheless want to tackle the challenge of making their own version of a fog chiller every Halloween, but as long as they are attempting to chill hot fog down from nearly 200 degrees using just ice cubes, in our opinion, its never going to work without using the delicate and precise Vest(tm) technology that took us 10 years to perfect. Had there been a way for the ice cubes to do the job, we are pretty confident we would have found it. And since our chillers work much like the carburator on your car, where the slightest adjustment can be made and the car simply would not even start, it makes this more of a science than simply a technique.

Our next section goes into how to go about making real low lying fog and cuts through the mystery shrouding this illusive yet highly desirable effect.

Next Pt.3: REAL LOW-LYING FOG