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Smoke Generator

15/2/2016

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​After meeting up with another train enthusiast today for a coffee in the city I decided to take a short detour and visit the local hobby shop, and boy I’m glad I did. It’s funny when you think about it, I went there to get some HO scale people that I could use for the camp fire scene I’m working on (which I found and I’m very happy with) and I overheard one of the sales people talking on the phone about a “smoke generator” they had on hold for a customer.
​What happened next lead to me not only buying the campers but I also bought a brand new smoke generator… oh and some small HO scale birds! …. Very expensive birds I might add!
I began experimenting with the smoke generator ASAP, overall I’m very impressed. There are a few issues I’ll have to overcome though. 
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  • One is the mounting of the generator under the layout, it shouldn’t be too hard as I’ve already got some ideas.
  • Two is the smoke generator tip gets very hot! It began to melt the mock up canister I had it in.
Even though it gets quite hot, the heat is very localized and dissipates very quickly as you move away from the generator. I have some Ideas on how to best insulate the generator so I don’t see this being a major issue at the moment.
​The progress for this next video is moving along very fast, I have the flickering LED’s ready to go and tested which again I’m very impressed with, the smoke generator is basically ready to go and now it’s just a matter of piecing it all together and making a new diorama to showcase the scene as a whole.
​I’ll most certainly add all the information about the LED’s, the smoke generator and even the HO scale people and birds in the tutorial video once complete. One last thing to mention is, I had considered using a smoke generator a while back however I decided against it due to cost! This little smoke generator I’m using here was much cheaper than the ones I had previously looked at and only cost me $55 Aussie dollars.
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Stay tuned for more updates on the next video
1 Comment
Martin
15/2/2020 19:22:39

Hi Luke, Just wondering which particular smoke generator you bought from https://seuthe-dampf.de/

They have six variations for buildings and I cannot much one up to yours accurately enough to be confident in deciding which one you bought. Thanks, Martin

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