I don't know about the peltiers but you can get low temps by blowing off compressed CO2 or N2 through a needle office into some felt via a needle valve.
First thing to watch: the absolute temperature range your peltiers operate on. My guess: not lower than minus 20 degrees C, not (much) higher than 100 degrees. Keep it cool, but not with peltiers :-)
On a sunny day (Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:09:08 GMT) it happened snipped-for-privacy@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote in :
Hi Gerard, I found this link
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that has 3 Peltiers stacked, and reaches -55 °C. He warns that below that the Pelties can get damaged, but I am not sure if it is because of temperature, or because of too much power.
I also found this link, and they claim to have one for a customer do to 145 °K
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After all it depends on the junction of 2 metals, so if those stay intact, then it should work?
As a rule of thumb a peltier generates as much heat as it transfers. If the coldest one transports 5W, the next will have to deal with 10W, then 20W, then 40W and finnaly 80W. IF a peltier could work at such low temperatures.
Perhaps you can find a cryogenic cooler on Ebay. The coolant may be very nasty stuff though.
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On a sunny day (Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:14:24 +0800) it happened "Dennis" wrote in :
I was sort of planning to connect the hot side to the biggest CPU cooler I could find :-) Also to have the stack upside down, so heat rises, and does not heat up the cold part.
that is why they build pyramid stacks: one in the coldest layer, then two, then four, then eight and finally sixteen. Together 31 Peltiers. Of course you need a good thermal connection between any two layers, but this connection should be isolated from the surrounding air. But the question remains, is it possible to reach even 70 K this way?
As far as I know: Peltier as a technology, works on many metals and over their usable temperature range (appart from dissipation issues.)
The commercial 'Peltier coolers' with delta T of 30 degrees C in a single unit are stacked semiconductor devices. Hence, the semiconductor temperature range.
There are no minority carriers in Peltiers, because there is no PN junction--just separate P-type and N-type bars with metal on both ends. Thus there should be no carrier freeze-out issues. FETs work down to 4K.
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Well, I don't know from Peltiers, but if I was faced with this, I'd stack up banks of thermocouples on some kind of ceramic matrix. AFAIK, thermocouples don't care how cold they get. ;-)
On a sunny day (Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:39:26 -0700) it happened Rich Grise wrote in :
could find :-)
cold part.
Now if you want to pick nits, OK.
Of course the warm air going upards (these things dissipate a lot) to the hot side makes a huge difference.
Na, too complicated. I found small sterlingcoolers are the perfect thing, but the prices are insane, like 10,000 $ up
Now there is a way to make a lot of money (200$ parts I guess). I think cellphone towers have these, to cool superconducting bandpass filters, so I should look for a surplus cellphone tower, also IR missile tech uses it, so maybe a duff US missile, LOL. None on ebay so far.
Yea, if you find one (cheap [used] sterlingcooler) let me know. I spend hours googling..
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