ijs@eplunix.UUCP (Ishmael) (09/26/90)
In Message <266@ssc.UUCP> markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) writes > There's a good writeup of thermoelectric coolers in Don Lancasters > Hardware Hacker column in the January 1990 Radio-Electronics Not quite - he is so sarcastic about them that he loses sight of the specific places where they are quite useful - in fact, somebody has recently applied for a patent having to do with using a TEC to cool off a 680x0 processor so that it can run at 50 MHz. AMOCO solid state lasers use a TEC to tune the pump laser diode to the NdYag absorption line. > "And to further shatter some hacker dreams, no way will they > make ice in the real world" Beg to differ, but that is what we use TECs for - we put a Melcor module on a copper block with a liquid cooled hot face to freeze tissue samples - testing is done by `making ice' in a beaker of room temperature water. -- |\___/| Ishmael J. Stefanov-Wagner |/. .\| Eaton-Peabody Laboratory \=^=/ {think,harvard,mit-eddie}!eplunix!ijs