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From: manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Thermoelectric coolers - how do they work - in English please
Message-ID: <4486@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 03:52:53 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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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.)

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