Fog Machine Breakdown and Hacking for Arduino Control

21 Comments

1. 

   Any chance of sharing the sketch?

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   Pro tip: When you're trying to figure out the cabling, just cut the dang zip tie so you can see what goes to what.

3. 

   dude I have 2 machines with the same 3 prong remote inputs, but I can't find either of the remotes. any ideas for how I can hack them to make them just fog when plugged in?

4. 

   Thanks for this video!

   I purchased one of these units without the remote and one couldn't be found.

   Following the information in this video I was able to use a simple jumper cable to connect the right pin from the timer input (white wire) with the middle pin (yellow wire). This enabled the unit to run perfectly.

   Thanks again!

5. 

   What model of that machine? I’m looking the transmitter and remote like that, thanks

6. 

   This is useless without the Arduino code.

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   I have one with only an IR sensor, how do I wire it to bypass that and activate with a momentary switch? Circuit to the ir isn't color coded ( red, green, brown) a 3 wire plugs into the board to activate

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   So here’s a weird question I have the exact same fogger, is there anyway to splice into the wire which the wall outlet cable wire on it is there anyway to splice into that to make it run off of a 12 V vehicle from the car?

9. 

   So cool

10. 

    I did a similar project this year. The major difference between the two were mine came with an IR remote instead of an RF remote. When you pressed the IR remote, it would send a signal to turn the fog machine on, and another to turn it off. What I ended up doing was hacking the IR code from the remote and then building a circuit with an IR transmitter that would output the same code as the supplied IR remote. I programming the Arduino to send random codes to turn the fog machine off.

    The advantages were I had to make no internal modifications to the smoke machine itself.

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    Tip if you want it to work more then 30 seconds,,, Space out the thermal sensor for touching the coil

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    Hi! I have this fog machine model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdIE2PbwFiM&lc=z23qvh3pdzapy50mqacdp43bwmdmvldemuagit1eso1w03c010c.1583037414269680 , I lost the remote control. Do you know how I can make it work? Thanks so much!

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    It's a bit off topic but i wanted to thank you for this video, I bought a cheap walmart fog machine and wanted to rewire it for a timer module. There's ONE other video out there where the guy shows you how to do it but it's HORRIBLE and not electrically safe at all! Your breakdown of this machine and description of each components connections were PERFECT! Thank you!! My cheapo fog machine now works flawlessly like a much more expensive model 🙂

14. 

    Hey Davy. Great video. Thank you for sharing. Do you happen to have a copy of the program you used for the time based fog release, that you would be willing to share? I don't have any experience with it…yet.

    Thanks a lot,

    Austin

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    how many volt relays have you used 230?

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    Old fog machine.. bullshit it's brand new. No rush or paint blistering around the fill cap. No scratches marks or blemishes on the remote

17. 

    Quick question, are those machines loaded with propylene glycol? can you add your own substances into it?

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    I have a slightly different fog machine that I'm doing something similar to. The one I have after warming up stays on for about 20 minutes and then the Ready light goes off and we are unable to release fog for about 1 minute. It then is ready again after the minute passes and normal operation can continue. Does your fog machine have similar functionality? If so how do you handle the motion sensing when it's in the unready state?

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    what happens if you join the control input cables together? is always going to be ON until you unpplug the current cable? i have the same machine

20. 

    use an arduino w/ a cheap ($5 or less) 315mhz tx and rx pair.

21. 

    thats an epic fog machine