Dave plays around with an energy harvesting kit to see how much power he can get out of a Peltier device used as a Seeback effect module to generate power from temperature differentials.<br />Bonus white board tutorial of how Peltier devices work as heat pumps.<br /> <br />Wuerth Elektronik Energy Harvesting Kit: http://www.we-online.com/web/en/electronic_components/produkte_pb/demoboards/energy_harvesting/energy_harvesting.php<br />Linear Technology: http://www.linear.com/solutions/1834<br />DC2080A Demo Manual: http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/demo-board-manual/DC2080AF.PDF<br />LTC3108 Energy harvesting chip datasheet: http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/datasheet/3108fc.pdf<br /><br />Measuring microcontroller sleep current using integration on an oscilloscope:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh0xYu8YvaE<br />Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-664-peltier-teg-energy-harvesting-experiments/<br /><br />EEVblog Main Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com<br />The 2nd EEVblog Channel: http://www.youtube.com/EEVblog2<br /><br />EEVblog Amazon Store (Dave gets a cut):<br />http://astore.amazon.com/eevblogstore-20<br />Donations:<br />http://www.eevblog.com/donations/<br />Projects:<br />http://www.eevblog.com/projects/<br />Electronics Info Wiki:<br />http://www.eevblog.com/wiki/
