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They're essentially using Peltier elements to cool the elements electronically. They're also using two elements stacked in series for a lower total temp.

Thank god the CCD is small -- a Peltier unit, as a heat pump, is pretty inefficient, topping out a ~15%, at a low t delta. When you stack two on top of each other, the efficiency is now 2.25%, and this only gets worse as the delta increases or more units are added.




The CCD also doesn't generate that much heat, so the peltier cells don't need to do that much work.




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