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Article #7395Re: Thermoelectric coolers - how do they work - in English please
From: Mark Zenier
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 20:06
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 20:06
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> In article <4486@optilink.UUCP> manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley) writes: > >What is the physical mechanism whereby a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) > >cools? I been told it has to do with the Peltier effect. > > > >(TEC's along with precision thermistors are used in diode lasers.) There's a good writeup of thermoelectric coolers in Don Lancasters Hardware Hacker column in the January 1990 Radio-Electronics "And to further shatter some hacker dreams, no way will they make ice in the real world" markz@ssc.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Thermoelectric coolers - how do they work - in English please Message-ID: <266@ssc.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 90 20:06:48 GMT References: <4486@optilink.UUCP> <4508@halligan> Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 13