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Old 06-27-2012, 05:07 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ConnClark View Post
Just remember that the heat is going to be dumped on the other side of the Peltier and its going to be about ten times as much as you remove from the cool side.
It's not quite that bad. Commercial Peltier coolers have a COP of about 1.25, so to cool your seat by removing 125 watts requires 100 watts from the battery and you'll need to dump 225 watts - you dump 1.8 times as much as you cool.
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