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I'm having to deal with a lot of crap in regards to an upcoming show. Wash lighting is perhaps a dead point, but that's not to say I haven't listened as I'll be making purchases later when funding allows.

Today, I inquire about Mr. Kool and the Snow Flurry.

Mr. Kool:
How long will this unit put out for in a single stretch before it has to duty cycle? And how long would it take to fill or at least cover a 50X40 area? I don't think I'd have to fill an area that big, but that would cover stage, spill over to the floor area. I think I need the fog to stick around for at least 2 minutes. I don't think I'll need it again after the intitial scene.

Snow Flurry:
If I read this right, I can manually operate this. Again, like above, how long of a single shot do I get? I need it to last a maximum of 7 minutes, of which I think I really need it for less than 5 minutes. Has to be one shot, I'll only need it once for the event and even then, it's towards the end.

I would like it if there were more pictures of the remotes for thse items. I won't be operating these, but will have a dedicated person handling fog, who hopefully isn't making their own fog.

What will probably end up happening is since a hazer, fog machine, snow machine and ground fog will be all sharing 1 circuit, and the hazer will be the only continuous run item of the "atmospherics", I'm going to have to share the circuit. I am worried about the 1500-watt fogger, but I'll deal with that later on.

Thanks for sharing experiences.
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Chris
For what you are looking for I would stay away from the American DJ side and look more at the Antari stuff. Not saying ADJ stuff is bad but you will get a lot more output from something like the Ice 101 which is their low lying fog machine, and something like the S-200 which has more snow output and I beleive you can run it for a longer time. On the Mr.Kool it would take around 4 or 5 times to cover that area and its about 3 mins in between each shot. On the Snow Flurry you can run that until the fluid goes out of it, because there is no heater on it you don't have to worry about any down time
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I am looking at the Ice-101 as wll as the S-100. It's a matter of finances since I won't be getting any financial help purchasing these and I have to consider the usage of these, which will most likely be only this event. The good news is it won't be a one-off event.

It does sound like the Mr. Kool is ruled out though based on your highly useful description. Since I want to prime an area to have it ready for that one sequence, I can't wait 3 minutes before pumping more ground fog again.

It's similar issues why my Fog Storm 700 is not suitable for the task. That thing has duty cycles regardless if it being actively used or sitting in standby mode. When I need that sucker to shoot, I need it to shoot. When using it for Halloween, there were many times where I thought the wireless remote was acting up(I did have to replace the battery), but going to the backside and manually triggering it also didn't get fog happening, it became apparently what the problem is. But, again, we're talking a party-type machine, not a pro machine.

The snow issue is still there. The costs differenecs are HUGE. I have a dealer who will help me as much as possible, and he knows he's already got the business, it's just a matter of when can I free up funding.

I worry about things like control factors, as I don't really want to rely on the stage folks to hit their cues, I'd rather rely on my MIDI controller attached to myDMX or scenes in MyDMX to help move things along.

I am leaning towards the Antari units. It still meets my requirements of staying within the ADJ/Elation umbrella.

OK, so Mr. Kool for sure ruled out. I can't consider that for this application anymore.

The hazer decision is made as well, so I don't have to worry about that either. HZ-300. Again, Antari product.

So, let it snow, how big of a dent in my wallet will that be....

(I don't want to get a bubble machine!!)

I figure for routine maintenance, I can always integrate some of what I purchase into holiday creations!

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