You will need:
1) Chinese fogger from humidifiers.
2) PC power supply
3) PC cooler
4) Halogen lamp 12 Volt red
5) Epoxy (a lot)
6) Selikon (any cheap, a lot)
7) 220 Volt halogen lamps (Flickering like a candle. Sold in stores.)
So .... I promised my daughter a "fireplace" on New Year's Eve .... Closer to the point, I discovered that the fireboxes on sale are either not nearly realistic or cost fabulous money (2 thousand euros and more). I decided to do it myself ..
The “fire” itself, after long experiments, was made of (on Ali Express it costs about $ 3.5). I didn’t take pictures of that process, but it was just there - I made a metal tank, fixed a fogger and a cooler, in the top cover - a slot for the exit of “steam”.
Here is the diagram:
As you can see from the diagram, the fog formed by the fogger accumulates in a container above the water. The cooler pumps air and fog breaks out into a slot in the top cover. At the same time, it is highlighted with a halogen lamp in orange-red color. It turns out "fire." And above the fog condenses, and since the lamp does not finish there, it turns out "smoke" ... It is important that the structure is tightly covered with the top cover. Because the fog is heavier than air, and if it has a “loophole” - it will spill anywhere, but not up. I did this: I overlaid the edges of the resulting container with a thick layer of silicone, and put a piece of laminate on it, smeared with liquid soap (so as not to stick), and allowed it to dry. Got a perfectly smooth "gum" around the edge. The top cover, made of a sheet of two millimeter steel and painted with nitro paint, lying on it, fits snugly.
After that, he began to make the "bonfire" itself. I gathered coal from extinct fires in a forest and coated it with building silicone.
After drying, he removed the silicone molds and poured an epoxy into them, which he had previously tinted with red. (Since she herself is yellow, it turned orange). He burnt the burnt logs after removing the form, and then poured an epoxy into the form and inserted them back.He removed the finished “coals” and tinted it with black matte paint from a spray can.
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That's all, actually .... I laid out 220 volt neon lamps on the top cover. (They flicker), after which he put down a "bonfire". I powered everything except neonok from a computer power supply - it was lying around, because it had an unstable voltage. And for my needs - just right. From it I got 24 Volts for a fogger, 12 for a cooler and a halogen.
All. It remains to embed it all in the fireplace portal. (I'll talk about this later)