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Old 11-10-10, 01:03 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
I don't have any good way to sketch and upload, but the idea that I'm thinking of is...
One way that is quick and easy, if you have a digital camera is just do a drawing with pencil or marker pen, and photograph it and upload the pix file. I've done that before and it works pretty good.

...as they say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Regarding Peltier devices (from Wikipedia):

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Thermoelectric junctions are generally only around 5–10% as efficient as the ideal refrigerator (Carnot cycle), compared with 40–60% achieved by conventional compression cycle systems (reverse Rankine systems using compression/expansion). Due to the relatively low efficiency, thermoelectric cooling is generally only used in environments where the solid state nature (no moving parts, maintenance-free) outweighs pure efficiency.
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