Re: ATM Beyond the fan

["Chuck Hards" <chuckh@companionsystems.com>]

Ian wrote:

> > Has anyone tried attaching a Peltier heat-pump to the back of a mirror,
or
> > an array of them?  The heat produced by the "hot" side could be pulled
away
>
> This should work, but only if you have enough power to cool the mirror
> to well below ambient, and you still run into problems with it equalising
> in temperature as the heat flows slowly through the glass.
> You might be able to cut cool-down time by a factor of 2 or so over
> fan-cooling, at considerable expense, complexity, and electricity use.

Scratch that idea for portable scopes, until someone invents the nuclear
battery for the consumer!