Peltier effect is basically using electricity to directly move heat from one side of a plate to another. One side of the cooler (I was typing one handed on the phone with my last post, that "chopper" should be "cooler"... yeesh) plate will get really, really hot, the other side will get really cold.
You have to actively cool the hot side of the plate (thus your heatsink and probably very low power fan) or it will overheat and the electronics won't be able to shunt heat around. They're really fast, and produce a really sharp thermal gradient across a small distance, but they are atrociously inefficient. You definitely lean toward more the "effectiveness" end of the spectrum rather than the "efficiency" side. -Kurt On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Joey Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok guys - enlighten me - besides the fan - what else is this thing > doing? Never heard of a Peltier effect cooler? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
