How do you keep a few sodas in your classroom cool? Well, if you are teacher [Ethan Hunt], you have your students design and build a solid-state mini refrigerator that can beat his prototype fridge.

The Peltier chip (TEC chip) is a thermo-element that utilizes the Peltier effect to implement a heat pump. It has two plates — one cold and the other hot. Between the plates, there are several ...

Coping with the heat generated by electronic components is a never‑ending problem. The era of the discrete transistor, promising low‑power circuit designs, has largely been superseded by ...

Way back I used a rather powerful peltier module to cool my GPU to sub zero temperatures. A secondary watercooling loop removed the combined heat of the GPU + peltier (in)efficiency. The GPU died as I ...

In Part 1, we did an overview of the general concept of the Peltier device. In this installment, we are going to continue the discussion around controlling the device and some initial packaging. For a ...