an You Make a Home Snow Gun for $100?
So, the question is: can you really make a snow gun for $100?
In full disclosure, I am a licensed professional engineer in the State of Utah.
I have been involved in the development of the Backyard Snowstorm residential snow gun for several years.
For more perspective, that would make about 5.5 cubic feet of snow per hour.
Our snow gun has a throw distance of about 25 feet and a spray width of about 12 feet.
A standard home garden hose faucet will typically put out about 6 10 gal/min of water.
BTW a typical resort snow gun uses 50 100 gal/min of water… To better understand why, a short background in snowmaking science is helpful.
kindly seehttps://www.backyardsnowstorm.com/snowmaking-science.
Most residential sized air compressors have a capacity of 3 to 5 cubic feet/min at about 100 psi.
The Backyard Snowstorm nucleation nozzle is sized to make nucleation crystals from atomized water droplets at about 0.15 gal/min.
The remaining water used for snowmaking is sheared to droplets between 700 to 1,500 microns.
For a more complete discussion of this subject, kindly seehttps://www.backyardsnowstorm.com/info.
