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Maintenance Tips for Your Haze & Fog Machines

Posted on April 17, 2024

Three important tips for prolonging the life of your fogger or hazer that uses water-based fluids:

After each use, blow or wipe off any debris or residue on the unit

  • Do NOT store empty. Top up fluids before storing. This often ignored piece of advice has created more maintenance headaches with atmospheric effects machines than all other issues combined.
  • DO flush out the system every 40 hours.  
  • To optimize flushing both fog and haze machines, we recommend FCQ ready-to-use cleaner fluid.

Add one cup of FCQ to your machine’s liquid reservoir and cycle it through the system (by operating and activating output in normal fashion).  Adding FCQ to your maintenance routine will:

  • Clean heater cores, increasing fog machine life and performance
  • Increase output and life expectancy of any fog machine when used regularly
  • Safely remove residues with a formula specifically designed for water-based machines

Catch our episode of Light Snacks that covers these tips at: https://youtu.be/GOzhqoFm2rE

And find more information about our FCQ cleaner at: https://www.chauvetdj.com/products/fog-cleaner-quart