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Old 03-06-2008, 12:05 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Ha! One of the senior design projects at my university is a thermoelectric radiator They're just modifying an off the shelf radiator to accept the chips - the goal is 1.5kW IIRC. It's pretty cool, I usually pay attention to their presentations
Wait are you generating or cooling? Doing one hurts performance of the other since they scale with delta T

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Brand is unknown - I don't want to take off the cold sink as the screws are glued in and I figure it's best to leave that alone if I want to use it at it's current performance/state
Don't. The material is brittle and IIRC is aligned. P-N junctions, yadda yadda.

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Yep... Typically, I don't need any heat due to my location... But, I guess it would work as a rather inefficient dehumidifier...
If you could rig up something to remove the moisture...
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