Haze/Fog

Depends on the room. Some rooms use heat sensors, not a problem. Some use C20 and CO sensors, most of the time no problem. H2O is fine, oil can be an issue. More modern places are using lasers. When the room fills up with enough smoke, fog, haze, etc, the alarm goes off.

There is only three ways around it. Turn off the fire alarm and let the fire company know. The other two are illegal.

Other then that, no way around it. Most theatres use heat sensors because of this.

I use the diffusion df-50 and no problems at all, ive used it in places where they say that the alarms are gonna go off and they made me test it and none of the alarms never turned on. Ive used it in theaters ballrooms arenas and no problems.

Again, depends. I have used Antari X310s where they swore the alarm was going to go off and didn't because they are water based, and they had used dry ice or DF-50s before with problems. Theatres should never be an issue. Arenas also will never be an issue, because they are built with the intention of using them just not for sports, but for live entertainment. After that, its room to room, but your safest and best bet is water based. Also gets you out of the using fog/haze during the show clause, because it is just water. Trust me, I have had people complain about it, until you tell them it is nothing but water and the cough goes away as mysteriously as it came.

I did a show once for a church in their bingo hall. No problems until the room filled up with enough haze about a few hours in or so once the hazer started, then alarms went off. Turned them off, called fire company, etc. Turned off the X310 and they went off again, because the haze was still in the room. Then we fixed it so they wouldn't go off and no issues then for the show.

Hi Luis,

I used 2 X-310's in a Hilton Ballroom once..
At first we were supposed to run a Fire detector test... Everybody was really worried about it, and it was important, but the test was never done, and I ran the two machines all night without a problem. The X-310's use a water base liquid.

The Luis uses the DF-50 and has not had a problem. But I am sure that we can all say that your best bet would be to request a fire alarm test before you spark up your hazers and get aproval from the managment of the facility.

Don't cross your fingers and spark them up, because in the end, any hazer or fogger can start the alarm.

Best regards,