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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Thermoelectric coolers - how do they work - in English please
Message-ID: <266@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 90 20:06:48 GMT
References: <4486@optilink.UUCP> <4508@halligan>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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> In article <4486@optilink.UUCP> manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley) writes:
> >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.)

There's a good writeup of thermoelectric coolers in Don Lancasters 
Hardware Hacker column in the January 1990 Radio-Electronics

"And to further shatter some hacker dreams, no way will they
make ice in the real world"

markz@ssc.uucp