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Ev Archive for June 2000
1551 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:48:52 2001

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Re: Heater/cooler



At 04:31 PM 6/29/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>The Peltier cooling chips would be perfect if they were anything
>>close to the efficiency of freon.  Unfortunately, they draw something
>>like 5-10 times more power than the equivalent mechanical freon
>>refrigerator.
>
>Yes, but someone mentioned the idea of using them for *heat*. You get their
>waste heat, plus some heat moved from the colder outside to warm your car.
>In that use MIGHT they prove MORE efficient than resistive heating
>(generally ceramic heaters in EVs)?
>
>Neon


Yes, about 30% more heat per watt but they are only about 40 watts each.
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