Re: Peltier cooling and funking great heatsink
The trouble with using a Peltier is that it takes power to operate it, and so the heat sink and fan have to be much larger than for the device alone. Peltiers only make sense when it is necessary to get to below ambient temperature.
I remember a case where a CCD sensor was in a sealed box and needed cooling, so a Peltier was added between CCD and metal box. The result was that the CCD ran hotter.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
