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Peltier units and Wood heaters

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DJ:

These days you could order about $10 worth of solar cells, Hook them up and the now not so young man would peddle that bike faster than any Olympic or professional rider on earth!  :0)

Wolvenar:
Seemed relevant to the seebeck effect discussion. http://people.clarkson.edu/~bhelenbr/Research_Pages/Students_files/m.s.pdf

Pete:
Thanks for that article Wolv. I did see a system many years ago that was apparently designed by the British for their polar stations. It was a thermocouple power unit that supplied around 60 watts ( from memory) when put on top of a gas or fuel stove.
I have never seen another one of those.
I have since purchased another 1kw of solar panels and added them to my system. We have fairly minimal power consumption here but live in the clouds on many days. So with 2.2kw of panels we don't need much sunshine to bring our batteries back up.
It has gone quiet on the site, I miss reading everyones stories
Thanks
Pete

noneyabussiness:
Im with you Pete, it is very quiet. .. still check in regularly though

Wolvenar:
Yeah, its gotten a bit dull. Oztules tends to spice it up here and there.
One summer I hope to be rebuilding my setup. I have so many projects going though I can't ever tell which summer.

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