Testing Peltier for Voltage Output
Date: 10.16.17
Location: Logan HS
Time: 1 hour
Students: Paul B.
Goal: Test the Peltier chip for voltage output when heating the hot side of the device.
We wanted to test the output voltage of a Peltier just to see what it was capable of. We do not plan on using the Peltier to produce a output voltage, but some students wanted to see what would happen when we heated the chip and monitored the voltage.
The heating source in the video is a small heat gun and we are using a inexpensive infarad thermometer to check the temperature. It appears to output 1.6 V - 1.7 V when we increased the temperature to between 120-150 degrees F.
A Peltier cooler, heater, or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the other, with consumption of electrical energy, depending on the direction of the current. ... It can also be used as a temperature controller that either heats or cools.
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