On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:08:03 +0000 (UTC), news13 blathered on in:
Inclined to agree:-)
Yup - nil advantage, really, though there's a 'space' factor in there.
therein the problem. A compressor driven machine drawing similar will generally do better than the solid state stuff insofar as what it 'costs' to run. Lately we've come to realize that the majors are actually taking the trouble to build their more mechanically complicated product well enough to run reliably for well over their warranty times and then some. OTOH since we've had absolutely shit peltier stuff pushed at us for so many years, now no-one out there is prepared to believe they're worth buying...eva. And that's even if there are some decent examples of the marque out there.... somewhere. Of course Waeco/Dometic and similar would dearly love to get their peltier stuff to top of consumer mind - it's pretty obvously well cheaper to produce and a bonus price point is there for the taking - just under the mini-compressor-powered stuff for a similar performance level. I, for one, aren't playing. The yardstick? If product literature suggests pre-chilling the stuff you're about to need to keep cool - it's not getting my 'ardearned.