Welcome to my DIY ultrasonic fogger thread. first i'm showing you just a cheap illustration of the fogger unit I will be building. Easily transports from room to room, can be used as a foliar feed system or can easily adapt to hydroponic systems. A picture is worth a thousand words. so take a look before i explain how it works.no humidifier required, runs on very little power and costs about $50-80 to make depending on how resourceful you are. compared to $350 and up in stores. If this exact fogger has been done before somebody please stop me.

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fucking sweet.

even though i thought we had already decided on that plan?

im going to make a box...similar to a shoe box, give or take.... and do it like that.

it looks good tho bro

Ya man this is it. I havn't ordered any parts yet though. I'm still looking for a good deal on a 12v fan with adjustable volt power supply pack because the one on the futuregarden website costs too much. Loudblunts. do you know how to make variable speed computer fan by regulating its voltage? i.e.(3v-12v) what kind of adapter would be needed to make the connections?

not sure about making one.... shit my lazy ass would just buy one.... i have alot of speed controllers around here... as i build computers and such.


http://zalman.co.kr/ENG/product/CategorySecond_Pic.asp?categoryname=Fan%20Controll ers&categorySecond= looks pretty good, pretty cool looking too!

What happened here? how did it turn out? don't leave me hanging man!

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What you're looking for is a potentiometer. I used one to regulate speed of spin on an agar mixer I constructed out of magnets, pc fan and a wall adapter. The potentiometer is a variable resister which acts to reduce power to said electronic device... thus reducing mechanical spin in this instance.

Buy a potentiometer from Radio Shack or similar electronics suppliers. Simply wire it in between the fan wall adapter and the device. I over powered the fan initially to adjust for the latent resistance of the potentiometer. It is a resister after all. What I mean by this is... lets say the fan needs 12volts at one amp and your potentiometer acts to reduce power up to one amp. You will not ever see that one amp at the fan due to resistance in the potentiometer... even when it's full open. I used a 12 volt 1 amp fan, a two amp potentiometer and a 12 volt, 2 amp wall adapter. Power reduction was in a twist of the knob on the potentiometer. HOPE THIS HELPS!

You can just use a PC fan controller,they're cheap enough and i'd just use a computer PSU to controll all the 12v stuff anyhoo's.If you need some links ill get them but just start at Newegg or some place like that.

The potentiometer cost is approx. .13 per unit... you won't find anything cheaper for what you need and they are fairly available... more so than something you'll order over the net.

just watch the wattage. RS pots are probably 1/4W.

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I just built one, I'll do a DIY thread and it came out to be pretty cheap and easy.











I am prepared to lose every clone in search of perfecting the fogger cloner I built.

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