Uhmm? How does that differ from any heat pump, such as say, a freon cycle refrigerator?
The biggest problem with Peltier coolers is they have a very low thermal resistance shunt (all of the thermocouple junctions) between the hot side and the cool side. If you turn them off, the hot and cool side will equilibrate almost instantly. Not very efficient! You can, however, make large stacks of Peltier coolers, hot to cool, and cool them down to liquid air temperatures. This is done on very low noise LNA's. -Chuck Harris Chris Albertson wrote:
The worst thing about those small refrigerators is that were NEVER designed to cool objects that PRODUCE heat. A wine bottle does not burn any electrical power. If you place even the smallest heat producing electrical device inside the cooler it is going to have to pump out whatever heat is being generating just to keep equal temperature with the room's ambient temperature. So you place some small device that uses 500ma at 12V and you have a 6W heater. It will requires more than 6W of cooling power just to keep even.
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