I like the idea of Peltier devices. I am suprised that they have not been used for other commercial applications. I recall that some students created air conditioning system with a Peltier device. Seems much more simple than using freon to cool a system.
--- Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/22/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Jun > 20, 2006 at 10:12:02PM -0700: > > > > > >> *ALL* of that heat has to be dissipated > somehow. > > >> > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > And if you can dump it 8 feet away you can make it > dump it outside your > > home by hanging the radiator or heat pipe or > whatever out the window and > > avoid heating up your room. > > > > The hidden point is that contrary to popular > illusion, Peltier > Junction devices do not transmit the heat from one > place to another by > electricity. They get colder on one side and hotter > on the other > side, and you the mechanical engineer have to > transmit this energy > away from the hot side. All the heat energy that > goes into the cold > side, plus the added energy necessary to transfer it > to the hot side. > (electric power is supplied to the Peltier Junction > to make it do its > thing) > > carl > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab > u.c. san diego > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
