Smoke Generators? Suggestions

[Anonymous]

Hello, I am into scale railroad as well as the Great Lakes Maritime freight industry which tends to rely alot on rail during certain aspects of the process. Well I am currently building a large HO scale freighter which happens to be a steam ship. It is going to be completely radio controled and operational. I wi***o install a smoke generator into the hull to simulate smoke from the smoke stack. I dont have any experience with them so I was hoping for some suggestions. I know that there are no current generators that make black smoke which would be ideal. But white smoke is better than no smoke. Are there any HO scale smoke generators that produce good amounts of smoke that could simulate an old coal burning steamship that puts out ALOT of smoke when under full steam? I would appreciate any suggestions you may have to simulate a good steamship. Thanks and take care.

[Anonymous]

I think the Seuth (sp?) or Sleuth ones are the best and most reliable. None of them put out a heck of alot of smoke. In a steamship I'm thinking you would go with three. The units are less than 1/4 inch in diameter so you could have three in your smokestack... You would run one at idle, two at low throttle and all three at full throttle.
Im not sure about the current required, but I imagine you'll have a nice fat 7.2V RC Car battery, or the equivelent, in there.
Sounds like a nice boat!

T

[Anonymous]

Seuthe is the spelling, they need about 16 volts. You can browse them at www.walthers.com They don't put out much smoke and it's white. I don't think they are what you want, and I can't think of anything that is...FRED