Display Lightning FX & Fog into Back of Tombstone Halloween Yard Haunt How-to

Halloween Yard Haunt Original Idea Fog Test. A 400W fog machine with a timer. Positioned within 1-2 feet of the back of a large tombstone. 1000W halogen white balanced floodlights plugged into a Lightning FX unit behind the setup. The idea is to combat wind and create atmosphere by letting the fog hit the back of the tombstone to collect in an area then be backlit by the lights.

One problem with the Lightning FX unit is that it was controlled by sounds from a CD player. The passing cars and the fog machine sounds made the unit stay on most of the time. So a thunder & lightning audio track in the future will be played by an iPod Shuffle plugged into a stereo Y-splitter. Speakers can also be plugged into the splitter. That will be plugged directly into the Lightning FX unit's RCA mono input. Ambient sounds will no longer affect the control of the lights.

Overall the idea of shooting fog into the back of an object and backlighting it worked well enough to try it again. Rather than shooting fog straight out of the fogger dissipating into thin air or broken up by the wind. Note that the Lightning FX unit is rated to handle up to 500W but the double halogens totaling 1000W worked fine with it. Video July 2007.

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The Lightning FX Unit is shown here at Wolfstone: http://tinyurl.com/34cdqb

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• Halloween
• Yard
• Haunt
• Lightning
• FX
• Fog
• Tombstone