The cooler consists of peltier device, a metal plate , a heat sink and a fan.
The aluminium plate in my case goes against the surface to be cooled and The peltier is clamped between that and the aluminium heat sink with thermal grease and surrounded by equal to peltier thickness EPDM insulation gasket.
I used a fan and heat sink from an old computer power supply and processor .
Takes the camera down below 6 degrees but chews up a lot of amps so better to stick to 12 degrees. Mine is 12a.
( edit: Of course that is on a metal astro camera. On a DSLR I think you would need some clever mods)
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Do you have a photo of your cooler?
One guy who does Sony mods puts a copper cold finger that runs from behind the sensor to the mounting plate of the camera.
Now you could attach a cooler to that and it would remove some of the heat.
I presume the heat is mainly from the processor and a bit from the sensor and battery?
Greg.
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