[time-nuts] poor-man's oven

[Ellen Franke]

My concern with using a TEC is that, heating or cooling, you are left with one cold surface and that surface will collect condensation which is a source for corrosion.
John WA4WDL


> On June 4, 2017 at 8:12 PM Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
> Moin Chris,
> 
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 13:49:29 -0700
> Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We used the pelter because we preferred a cool "oven" to a hot one.   The
> > theory has that we get less electronic noise so we ran the TEC in cooling
> > mode.   But for your use a resistive heater would be cheaper.   But in
> > either case you see a coffee mug with a round chunk of Al shoved in and
> > heat sink fins showing.
> 
> What is the reason why you'd expect less noise with a TEC?
> 
> 			Attila Kinali
> 
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