I ended up buying a six head fogger from Futuregarden . They are competitive or less expensive than anywhere else I looked -- including Ebay and igived a six month warranty rather than a "What you buy is what you get" -- attitude. Plus they shipped it the same day
Nutramist Fogger for Hydroponics and Aeroponics by FUTUREGARDEN
This is an actual Nutrimist brand fogger--with the teflon coated ceramic discs. At $109 this is the best deal I have found on a six head fogger. This unit puts out about twice as much fog as the one Nutrimist uses in their own foggers. But as I said in my last post. Nutrimist does not make the units they just brand them and use the best discs in them. I could have gotten a five head from Mainland Mart for about $100 with shipping, but would have had to pay state tax. For an extra $21 dollars $12 of which was shipping -- I got an additional head, the best ceramic/teflon discs, and a six month warranty. And the techs at Future garden were helpful and honest. One of the first things they said was that fog alone was unreliable.
I think Earls words of caution are words of wisdom, and will personally be using the fog as part of a tribryd system fog/aero/membrane.
Some factors I have learned regarding foggers:
For large plants, foggers should be a supplement not the sole nutriment/water system. While NASA may be able to grow lettuce and spinach most effectively with fogger/nebulzers, large plants present additional factors into the mix.
Nebulizer type foggers should be utalized in such a way that the water that they are using to create fog is seperate from any water the plants roots may be in continuous contact with, such as in a bubbler. This will keep the root water cooler which is good, and allow the fogger water to be warmer which adds to it's efficiency.
Foggers with party lights should be avoided--as they create even more heat, and lighting up your roots continuously is not a good idea as it will stimulate and repress hormonal changes, adding more unknowns in an already massive list of variables.
Your fogger will kill anything alive in the water it turns into fog, so in theory, if all your water came from fog, ultra violet sterilizers and antimicrobal/fungal additives would be unnecessary.
Running your fogger in an intermittent pattern will extend it's life and may actually increase fine root development and nutrient absorbtion.
It may be beneficial to have a purge cycle where fresh clean air is forced into the root chamber--forcing all fog and humidity out. Think of the time lapse movies of a the cloud forests of the Andies that thrive without water--in cycles of clouds and high dry desert air.
A fogger is the best device to use for folar feeding, should you do that. It completely envelopes all plant surfaces in the most easily absorbed form.
Using a fogger is a superior way to root clones.
Fogger systems and fogger hybred systems can be build really inexpensively--for less than one fifth of what an off the shelf system would cost.
It seems as things get more sophisticated technolocically they eventually reach a point were they get simplier instead of more complex. I see a rather elegant future where inexpensive high output LED light panels and media free aerophonic schemes powered by in home hydrogen generators will be grown between the walls of your house and attended by Rumbalike robotic devices who will clip trichrome clusters that are perfectly rippened on the plant and deliver them in an already warm vaporizer to your hover lounge in the halodeck.
From the house of vapor and fog
Cheers
