begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:44:14AM -0700: > On 6/21/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >Yes. But if it's getting dumped into a heatsink eight inches (or eight > >feet) from the actual chip, it's somebody else's problem. > > Consider that these devices are properly called Peltier Junctions. > The heat transfer takes place across a thin solid-state junction. > Then you have to remove the heat from the "back" side by some other > means. It isn't inches or feet away, it's millimeters away.
Hm.... so I now suspect that the little demo device I saw in one of the clairemont mesa blvd. stores back in the 90's was snake oil. They had two elements about 5" apart, and when you flipped the switch, one would get really cold, and the other would get warm/hot. All that connected the two elements was some wire. Hmph. I should know better than to trust a demo. Now I'm wondering how they did it. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
