Thanks a lot Gary. You can keep talking in tecno-talk because most who read
these understand electronics much more than I do. But I would ask if I
didn't understand or just wanted to know. I will now look into these to
better understand their use. Again thanks for the time to respond.
Best Regards,
Ralph Howes
W8BVH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Hoffman" <ghoffman@spacetech.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Is there a beefier 2N5301?
> I'm sorry Ralph....I speak in techno-babble all too often ! A TEC is a
> thermoelectric cooler. As you probably know, if you apply low voltage DC
> to
> one of these babies, it pumps heat - making one side very cold, and the
> other side warm of course. The warm side heat you dump to the nearby air.
> The cold side gets applied to whatever it is you want to cool off. They
> are
> pretty cheap too.
>
> 73 de Gary, AA2IZ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralph" <w8bvh@sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Is there a beefier 2N5301?
>
>
>> Gary:
>> I've been reading this thread with some interest but I don't know what
> "TEC"
>> is. Can you explain to me?? Thanks for the help.
>> Ralph Howes
>> W8BVH
>>
>>
>> > To go beyond that, you have to turn to the heat sink itself. Make it
>> > bigger. Make it Copper. Give it more and larger fins. Blow air on
>> > it.
>> > Or - if you really want to do it right, use a TEC for active cooling
>> > and
>> > make that heat sink really really cold. Just short of the dew point of
>> > course. And much more practical than liquid cooling.
>> >
>> > TEC's really rock when used properly in this manner.
>> >
>> > 73 de Gary, AA2IZ
>> >
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