Post #559286 by Choptop on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 10:29 AM

On 2010-10-11 18:15, MadDogMike wrote:
Looks great! What did you use for a burner set-up?

Sound FX - I made a volcano sound effect a few years back by taking an explosion wav file and slowing it down by 4x or so. Then ran it thru an amplified sub-woofer, it made the ground shake :D

They have cheap fog machines at WalMart now for $20. I'm sure they aren't as good as a $100 one, but you can buy 5 of them for $100

for the burner I used the guts from the firepit I got at Garden.com. It wasnt cheap... ~$800 if I recall correctly. But then again I didnt see this as an area to skimp on the project. It has electronic ignition and a thermocoupler that will try for a set period of time to re-ignite the flames should they go out for whatever reason, after that it shuts down and shuts off the gas. When you turn on the power to it the ignition system kicks on and instant flame. Pretty cool. It also means it can be controlled (on and off wise) via a remote switch, or even better, remote control (putting a remote control receiver inline with the power supply).

Will look into the SFX option. The slowed down explosion is a good idea. A friend is pretty heavy into the "haunt" business and I should be bale to come up with good little sound players that can be hidden in the base of the volcano and play back sound files.

Headed to Walmart today to pick up a couple of cheap foggers. Ubangee will smoke again soon!!! :D